https://kellyvaresio.com/home daily 1.0 2020-06-03 https://kellyvaresio.com/insperatus daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecfddbd2e58926c6ea1ffbc/1591194526456-ABEO08WI4TI7MNYDV95E/Insperatus+Cover.JPG Insperatus - England, 1843: Twenty-year-old Rein Pierson embarks on a voyage to America to escape a past she is desperately trying to forget. She boards a massive steamship—one that conceals all manner of peculiar phenomenon. Aboard the ship, Rein meets a man who seems the embodiment of her dreams, but, like everything else she uncovers, he harbors a deep secret. As Insperatus unfolds, Rein Pierson finds herself in a whirlwind of emotion—confused about her growing love for the dashing but mystifying Traith Harker, frightened by his secret that reveals the supernatural world that is encroaching above her own, and heartbroken as tragedy disrupts her voyage. Weaving a uniquely dark tale of love, intrigue, and acceptance, Insperatus narrates a historical romance rewritten by the paranormal. https://kellyvaresio.com/infectus daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecfddbd2e58926c6ea1ffbc/1591197506125-AY4GV08DYR05UTCOUWU8/INFECTUS+COVER.JPG Infectus - The sequel to Insperatus: It has only been one year since twenty-year-old Rein Pierson boarded a ship to America in an effort to escape her fearful past. It was there, on that fated ship, that Rein met the mysterious Traith Harker, who would end up as her undoing and her salvation. Rein and Traith fought off evil then, and they found love in one other. The year is now 1844. Rein learned Traith’s dark secret - his vampire nature - and she is now one of his kind. Together, they believe they can face any dark foe as they look into a bright future, filled with passion. Perhaps, as immortals, together Rein and Traith can live normal lives. They could never guess that someone has other plans for them. A series of murders sweeps the English coast. Somehow, the deaths involve an ancient evil, hell bent on ruining lives. Plans for a regular, happily married life soon fade as Rein and Traith realize they must fight this foe. The vampires are humanity’s only hope, but their battle may yet end in tragedy. https://kellyvaresio.com/state-of-ruin daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecfddbd2e58926c6ea1ffbc/1591195087500-AY886UETFEH96SVNY5RB/StateOfRuin.jpg State of Ruin - A new story. The year is 1862. Desdemona Kensington is an unconventional young lady who wants to aid the Union cause. Despite ineligibility due to her age and her family’s disapproval, she volunteers as a nurse at Armory Square Hospital. On her first day, she finds her ward bombarded with an onslaught of wounded men. A large battle just took place - what would come to be known as the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War - and the casualties are pouring in. Warren Cleary fought in that battle. He wakes up suffocated behind a shroud of bandages. It isn’t until he meets the ward nurse, Miss Kensington, that he discovers how severe his injuries truly are and the small detail that hes a now a Rebel prisoner in a Yankee hospital. Stripped of all vanity and independence, Warren must learn to cope with his life-shattering afflictions and the death of the friend he’d been trying to save. Mona tries to endure the trials of discrimination and hospital horrors, in addition to accepting the courtship of her ward surgeon, Dr. Nathan Angle. Warren teeters between wanting to live as a damaged man or die. As the two try to survive a war pitting Americans against each other, they face betrayals and death and budding feelings between them that throw all into discord. 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