Chris Keane
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Pennant Collective
Date of Publication: April 25th, 2017
ISBN: 978-0692832172
ASIN: B06X9Y715F
Number of pages: 144
Word Count: 43,000
Cover Artist: Nick Kiefer
Book Description:
Itâs summertime and the last place 19-year-old Dante Elton wants to be is at his grandmotherâs in rural upstate New York. But itâs exactly where his parents dump him, as they jet off to Europe. Without a car, cell service, or even basic television, there is nothing to do but wander around the nearby woods just as he had as a small childâ¦
There he meets sexyâand slightly olderâAngie Sewall while on a hike. On the surface, sheâs a devoted daughter content to be single while she manages her fatherâs medical practice. Yet deep down, Angie is bored and heartbrokenâ¦and is harboring some special gifts that she keeps secret from her father and their backwoods community.
When Danteâs grandmotherâs health declines, he reaches out to Angieâs father for help, only to uncover the good doctorâs dark side. When Dante confides in Angie, it drives a spike into their budding relationship. Heâs left to wonder if heâs all alone in his quest to save his grandmother
Excerpt:
As the sun splintered through the gaps in the tarp, Dante held Angie in his arms while she slept. He had never felt or even imagined being this happy. He watched her sleeping peacefully, half-expecting she would just vanish like the girl from his dream. She seemed other-worldly, more of a product of his imagination than the surrounding environment. In the real world, a beautiful girl like Angie would barely give him the time of day. She wouldnât be into reading horror or Japanese anime either. She would probably be rejecting his friend request on Facebook.
He still hadnât told Angie that she had appeared to him in his dream back in New Jersey. He figured she would probably just laugh at him. The past few weeks, he had assumed he would forget about it. Yet somehow, the thought wouldnât vacate his brain. If she had actually appeared to him in his dream, this was no ordinary girl, and that frightened him. She seemed normal, but her father did not. He was an eccentric man with a sketchy past. Dante had come across a stack of books on witchcraft in his study. But she brushed it off, saying that he had grown up in Massachusetts, and everyone up that way was into the history of Salem.
Chris is a graduate of Rutgers University and studied the art of storytelling at Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City. Chris' first publication, "Loot," became a bestselling Kindle Short Read, in the category of Young Adult Fiction.
"Loot," set on Halloween in 1977, tells the tale of three boys who skip Halloween to hunt for cash to purchase an Atari in an old farmhouse belonging to one of their deceased aunts. Adventure ensues in his coming-of-age tale in the spirit of Stand by Me and The Goonies.
In addition to authoring prose, Chris is a screenwriter. In 2013 he wrote the screenplay for a short film, The Baseball Card, about three twelve-year old boys who fight over a Don Mattingly baseball card during the summer of 1984. The Baseball Card was an official selection of the Garden State Film Festival, Hoboken International Film Festival, and Maryland International Film Festival in 2014.
The Girl from the Woods is his debut novel.
6 Comments
Audrey Stewart
5/22/2017 09:13:11 am
I love the cover, and I enjoyed what I have read so far.
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Chris KEANE
5/22/2017 10:00:51 am
Thanks for hosting me on your awesome site!
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desiree
5/22/2017 07:17:24 pm
the cover is great and then i like it looks like the 50s era pic and would love to win one of the goodies
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Chris
5/23/2017 05:24:37 pm
Thanks, Desiree!
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Jerry Marquardt
5/23/2017 09:33:20 pm
I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including The Girl From the Woods. I wish the best in keeping up the good work in the future.
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Chris KEANE
5/24/2017 09:01:57 pm
Thanks a lot, Jerry!
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