Storm Lake - is it Mayberry or Middle Earth? My name is Tempest Pomeroy, and my human job is delivering the mail in Destiny, Louisiana. I'm also a Paramortal like my family, or I'm supposed to be. If I didn't have a few little talents, I'd think I was adopted. It's just two weeks until Mardi Gras, and I'm having a bad day. That's like saying Katrina dropped a little rain on the Gulf Coast. First, River's amphora went missing-that's genie bottle to you mere-mortals-and on my first delivery, a handsome scantily clad doctor triggered some sort of hallucination, with just a touch. Pheromones?...

He's looking for normal, but has he found Mayberry or Middle Earth? The Paramortals have a saying, "One meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." Our new sheriff stated it thusly: "Paramortal, my as$ " Isn't it just like a man to exit a relationship when he finds out a woman has a few little secrets? The last time I'd seen my almost boyfriend, Jack Lang, a series of shocks had sent us both reeling, and he got his first glimpse of my Paramortal "talents" - a few measly bolts of lightning aimed at his-in his general direction. The scant information we'd given him was like a snow...

"You vill meet a dahk dangerrous strangah..." Aurora predicted at the Mardi Gras ball, and, as if someone had left their Swords of War videogame on "share" in a parallel universe, 'he' walked in. Conor de Sept Flambe, the Dark Knight they'd dubbed him, with his dark gleaming muscles, the distinctive leathery tattoos across his shoulders, armored boots and magnificent flashing swords. "Where did he get those swords?" Montana asked, drooling. She'd been unable to force her eyes away from him all evening. Then he'd walked across the ballroom floor, parting the crowd like Moses through the Red...

NOTE: The Destiny Paramortals series is southern urban fantasy/romance and should be read in order as it is the continuing saga of the recurring characters, beginning with Storm Crazy. In each Paramortals book, questions are answered and new ones arise. Unknown to the other communities of Storm Lake outside of Destiny is the role the Paramortals have in keeping them safe. It's the height of the Para-moon and Sheriff Jack Lang is up to his '6' in alligators. Defending those weaker than himself is in his DNA which is what drove him to become a Navy pilot. Who is he kidding? Alligators he could...