Diagnosis, Love - Thoughts

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to share a few things that have been on my mind about Diagnosis, Love - my paranormal romance.

Writing Diagnosis, Love gave me the chance to address several issues in my life and wrap everything up into a neat short tale. Melanie Marr's leukemia reflected the frustration, helplessness and fear I felt when my brother was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. (Although he was initially given a 30-40% chance of survival, after following chemotherapy and radiation treatments he's been cured for several years now.)

I regularly give blood and urge everyone to do so. As the slogan says: It's in you to give! Melanie Marr represents all those phlebotomists I've met at the blood clinics over the years, and it was my small way of paying them back for their dedicated service.

Then it just seemed right to have a doctor fall in love with one of his dying patients, especially when that patient also happens to be a health professional. Jakob Farkas filled that role perfectly. The fact that he's an immortal vampire, or claims to be one, gives a dying woman desperate hope for a new life.

Finally, I'm also an art fanatic, and the caves in Lascaux have always intrigued me, ever since I was old enough to look through art history books, yeah, I'm talking about Gombrich, Gardner and Jansen. Who were these ancient artists who felt compelled to draw on the cave walls and ceilings? So, of course, I just had give my explanation and to also set the climax of the Diagnosis, Love in one of the caves!

That's it. Just some thoughts on a hot summer day.

For those of you who haven't read it yet, I hope you will take a look at Diagnosis, Love.


Available from Noble Romance Publishing.

Ingrid, ;-)

Almost there!

Hi everyone! Ingrid here, back to remind you that Diagnosis, Love, my new Noble Romance sensual paranormal novella, will be released June 20!

So, a bit about Diagnosis, Love:
The story (one of my favorites) features Melanie Marr, a petite and perky phlebotomist - well, she's perky when she isn't busy dying of leukemia - and the peculiar relationship she has with her oncologist Jakob Farkas, a TDHD (Tall, Dark and Handsome Doctor). One look at him and she thinks that the way he's dressed, all in black from head to toe, he reminds Melanie of the late Johnny Cash, minus the slung over-the-shoulder guitar.

It doesn't look good for Melanie. Since she works in the medical profession, she knows what cruel fate awaits her as the fatal disease progresses to its inevitable end. But when Dr. Farkas (it's pronounced Farkash, his snooty secretary corrects Melanie) proposes a radical cure, Melanie jumps at the opportunity.

That Farkas promises a fully comped trip to Europe only inflames her desire to be 'cured' by the dreamy oncologist with the dark eyes.

But when reality sets in Melanie quickly goes from a tired night-shift worker who enjoys spending days off resting at home to a world-weary traveler, crisscrossing the globe several times and experiencing such cities as Amsterdam, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Stuttgart and Lascaux with the good doctor by her side.

She finds out that Doctor Farkas' cure will take place in one of the caves in Lascaux, France, beneath the world famous paintings that have mystified the art world since their discovery. But only when the magical Spring Equinox dawns, flooding the cave with its blinding sunlight, does Melanie realize she might have bitten off more than she can chew.

Diagnosis, Love has all the elements of an entertaining summertime read: sex, vampires, sex, art, sex, exotic foreign destinations and romance . . . did I mention S-E-X?

I hope this has wet your appetite and put you in the mood for a sensual romantic tale and that you will read Diagnosis, Love when it comes out June 20. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it.

Check back here and on my blog on or about the 20 to see where I'll be giving away swag on June 20.

Ingrid ;-)

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