31 Days of Halloween – Melynda Price – Special Giveaway
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traditions can be traced to the ancient Celtic day of the dead. Halloween is a
holiday of many mysterious customs, but each one has a history, or at least a
story behind it. One of the most celebrated traditions is pumpkin carving.
with these sometimes cute but mostly ghoulish glowing faces but do you know why
we go to the pumpkin patch (or your local grocery store) and spend a
pain-staking amount of time searching for and picking the best one, only to go home,
carve it up, stick a candle inside it and display it so proudly on the front
step?
that on October 31st the Lord of Death, Saman, would call together all the
souls that had died the previous year to travel to the afterlife during the
Vigil of Samhain. Ancestral ghosts and demons emerged from sidh (ancient
mounds or barrows of the countryside) and were free to roam the earth, harm crops,
and cause trouble.
spirits from coming to people’s homes, the Celts would carve faces in gourds,
light them with a candle, and display them in the windows of their homes. They
believed the frightening faces would scare off any evil spirits.
sure to carve your pumpkin extra scary to keep the ghouls at bay. J
tradition-filled Halloween!
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Blurb: A guardian angel… A forbidden love… Eternal consequences… Olivia Norton was born with a gift—a gift heaven has sworn to protect, and hell is bound to destroy. Her perfect world is turned upside-down when two handsome strangers, Max and Liam, step into her life. Olivia soon discovers that her ‘Mr. Perfect’ is actually a perfect nightmare. The rules of engagement have changed and Liam, Olivia’s guardian angel, is forced to cross dimensional borders or risk losing the woman he’s sworn to protect. Suddenly, thrust into a world unlike anything he’s never known, Liam isn’t prepared to come face to face with the young woman whose life he holds in his hands. But nothing is as it seems, and secrets abound that will ultimately force him to choose between two impossibilities. Max will stop at nothing to finish what he’s started, and Olivia is soon plunged into a battle between good and evil. Her very life hangs in the balance as two forces fight to win her heart.
