Category Archives: paranormal romance

SHAKESPEARE AT POOH CORNER

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Veronica Knox

CHAPTER ONE SOMETHING MAGIC THIS WAY COMES 1968 “Remember tonightfor it is the beginningof always.” DANTE ALIGHIERI THE INFERNO There was no need to check the corners in our house for demons. Mother’s dark shadow crept through the house without … Continue reading →

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VIOLET SEABORN’S UNFINISHED SOUL

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Veronica Knox

ANCESTRAL WATERS RUN DEEP Violet Seaborn’s Unfinished Soul is a mythical fantasy about an extraordinary young girl who perishes in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 who must travel back to the prehistoric goddess culture of her ancestors to restore … Continue reading →

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A ‘DOGGED STAR’ IS BORN 

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Veronica Knox

‘DOGGED STAR’ – When the teenage Leonardo Da Vinci experiences a spontaneous emotional outburst while painting his first masterpiece, he unwittingly initiates a long-term long-distance love affair that defies physics. An extraordinary romance spanning five-centuries transpires inspired by the dogged … Continue reading →

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THE ‘MONA LISA’… ARTFUL or POSSESSED? … THE NINE-TENTHS RULE

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Veronica Knox

Is the ‘Mona Lisa’ beguiling or smiling? Alluring or obscuring? Devious or mischievous? Is she artful or possessed? In my fictional account of her life, ‘LISABETTA – a stolen glance’, she is all of the above. POSSESSION IS NINE-TENTHS OF … Continue reading →

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AUTISM, SENTIENT BIRDS, and the GHOST of a PRINCIPESSA

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Veronica Knox

A MYSTICAL ROMANCE of YOUNG LOVE and OLD SOULS Delphi Sharpe, an autistic teenage orphan with the extrasensory ability to converse with birds and paintings, has a tenuous grip on reality. After she falls in love with a boy in … Continue reading →

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A RENAISSANCE TREATISE OF UNDYING LOVE

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Love survives five-hundred years of dust to rekindle the bittersweet romance between the ghost of Sandro Botticelli and a retired art history professor. As a teenager in 1967, I’d been the poster girl for romantic dreamers in love with love. … Continue reading →

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SOMETIMES A PAINTING SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Veronica Knox

I became a full-grown cynic at eight, yet strangely, the belated gift of a teddy bear proved enlightening. I was definitely no ordinary child.
But then, Virgil was no ordinary bear.
In a life beset with sharp spindles and a distinct lack of white magic, it dawned on me that growing up was a perilous journey of life-threatening surprises. My mother tried to teach me that it was best to welcome each one with the wisdom of my namesake, Marcus Aurelius.
The Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, c.78 B.C. was a philosopher warrior who declared that success can only be reached by accepting, wholeheartedly, every obstacle that comes your way. Sadly, his truth registered too late to save me. I forgot that one must have the courage and patience to recall one’s childlike innocence, and remember, as the best fairy tales impart, to bring one’s whole heart into play when fateful stars drop questions on your plate.
And so, I disappeared long before I ran away from home.
– Aurelia Marcus
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DISAPPEARANCES CAN BE REVEALING

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Veronica Knox

TEENAGER AURELIA MARCUS DISAPPEARED LONG BEFORE SHE RAN AWAY FROM HOME – A GHOST STORY ABOUT A PAINTING that refuses to stay on the canvas. A troubled teenager’s life alters drastically when A FAULTY SLIDE PROJECTOR IN AN ART HISTORY … Continue reading →

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‘AMUSE BOUCHE’ … WORDS TO AMUSE THE MOUTH

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

LISA IS A BIG GIRL… She can speak for herself! “My name, Lisabetta Buti was an affront to my existence. I was Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved kid-sister, his assistant and apprentice, and the mother he was denied. We were born … Continue reading →

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A TASTE OF INDIGO

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

A STORY OF YOUNG LOVE AND OLD SOULS When the extrasensory abilities of Delphi Sharpe, an autistic girl who converses with paintings and birds, are transplanted into the circuits of an android designed to retrieve famous works of art lost … Continue reading →

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