"Our eyes met, and the room descended into silence. It was as if time had come to a standstill, with neither of us able, or wanting, to break the intense connection we were feeling." (p. 80) ★★★★☆ 🌶🌶 Review: An impossible romance between a Spartan soldier and a vampire in ancient Greece Set in ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE, Shadow & Ash: Bloodbound melds paranormal romance with historical fantasy. Amidst the growing threat of a Persian invasion, Kallian, a Spartan soldier, and his mentor, Aristion, must discreetly gather intel. When a kiss awakens a shared passion, Aristion pulls back. Despite their proximity, Kallian has not yet realized that Aristion is a century-old vrykolakas–an immortal Greek vampire. Aristion is hesitant to love a mortal, and while he could attempt to change Kallian, only one in fifty survive the transition from human to vrykolakas. With war looming and a forbidden and impossible romance growing, Aristion’s and Kallian’s ...
Book Tour: Guest Post + GIVEAWAY for The Poseidon Project by E. William Podojil
Molly, accompanied by her son and his boyfriend, embarks on
a high-stakes mission to rescue her kidnapped husband, unraveling secrets while
racing against the clock to prevent a technology from falling into destructive
hands.
Molly Halloran and her friends have a secret past.
Their bucolic retirement is suddenly upended when Molly’s
husband is abducted and held for a steep ransom. Now she, her friends, her tech
executive son, Lukas and his Air Force pilot boyfriend must race against the
clock and travel halfway around the world to meet the kidnappers’ demands.
But when they learn why her husband has been abducted, they
realize how high the stakes truly are. Molly and her friends now must face
their past in order to save the future. But not only their futures; the
world’s.
What inspired you to write this book?
I am a huge fan of Thrillers, Suspense, Action-Adventure and like to write in that genre. My idea for Poseidon came from a couple of areas. First, the main characters are retired women scientists who are kind of bored in retirement and they have a secret past you’ll learn about in the book. Second, I like stories that have protagonists/heroes who are not stereotypically perfect, strong, fearless and things like that. So I took the four retired women, one woman’s son who is a tech genius but complicated and afraid of getting into a relationship, the man he finally meets and all the family dynamics that go on while the mystery is playing out.
What can we expect from you in the future?
Book 2 is titled Archipelago and involves the same characters and an expansion of the story and mysteries from Book 1. Archipelago is in production and will be released in 2025. Book 3 is the continuation of the storyline and is titled, Chameleon and that should be out in 2026. The storylines are complex, twisted, multi-dimensional with many surprises thrown in.
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in The Poseidon Project?
Molly Halloran – leader of a 4-friend group called The Herb Society, all retired women, ex-physicists, teachers and a secret mission they shared.
Lukas Halloran – Molly’s son is a technical genius who works in cybersecurity. His father goes missing while on business in Dubai and Molly asks her son to help find out what happened to him.
Taylor Pastore – Jet pilot, ex-Air Force Special Forces agent. He falls for Lukas while piloting Lukas in a private jet.
Tory Pastore – Taylor’s daughter who is grown up and also a pilot with her dad.
How did you come up with the concept and characters for the book?
It’s kind of a funny story. My mom (inspiration for Molly) has a group of friends who hang out every week at a scheduled breakfast. They are all former teachers and these women are active, engaging, love to travel, funny and totally tech-savvy considering they are in their 70s and 80s. My mom used to joke with me while I was traveling for work that she suspected I was in the CIA or a global assassin (spoiler: I’m not) because I was all over the world in places from India, Middle-East, China, Australia, Indonesia, South America, Africa and my mom and I just kept it as a running joke and that grew into the Poseidon Project. I just made her and her friends the CIA agents instead of me.
E. William Podojil is an international business executive
and novelist. He has traveled extensively and visited over sixty countries
while living in Europe and the United States. Podojil works as an executive
business advisor, and strategist while also pursuing his love of storytelling
and writing. Podojil's first novel, The Tenth Man, was published in 2004. His
second novel, The Poseidon Project, was released in August, 2024 by The
Wild Rose Press, and is the first in The Herb Society Mysteries, a series of
adventure thrillers. His novels and other writing are showcased on his website www.ewpodojil.com. Here he also writes a
personal blog with humorous stories of his life and travels with his husband
and three sons. He and his family currently reside in Northeast Ohio.
This story sounds really interesting.
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