The author wrote a letter to her readers to explain why
she decided to “genre hop”.

To My Readers,

So where the heck did this book come from? It came from a
weekend of writer’s block on another manuscript. Descendants of the Rose had
been sitting on my desk for more than a year while I’ve been working on The
Lockwood Legacy series. Then I switched gears to the cozy Study Club Mysteries,
but this other character — Selby Jensen — wouldn’t leave me alone.

As usual, she knew what she was doing since the book
debuted on the Amazon supernatural mystery bestseller list this morning.

Selby wanted out there in the world, and that Saturday
morning a couple of weeks ago, she told me plainly that she’d waited long
enough. I spent the weekend with her, and Monday morning
I had a complete draft ready for my beta readers and proofreader.

This might seem like a big genre hop, so I wanted to take
a few minutes and talk to you about how and why I write. Creating strong women
characters is my primary interest. I don’t want to be confined to or defined by
any genre. My goal is to put my characters in interesting, challenging, and
often painful situations and explore how they cope — or don’t cope — and wade
through the fallout and triumphs with them.

From page one of this book, you’ll meet a woman in pain
over a tragic loss in her life. She prefers to keep company with the dead, but
her commitment to protecting and improving the world of the living is her real
reason for existing. Yes, there is a murder that is solved in the pages of this
book, but Selby’s journey is only starting.

As I’m writing to you today, I have a plot map on my desk
for book two of this series, Lost in Room 636 that centers around a grisly
murder that occurred in San Antonio, Texas on February 8, 1965. San Antonio is
one of the most haunted cities in America and it’s also Selby Jensen’s stomping
grounds, but you may be surprised where destiny leads this woman over the
series arc I have planned.

So, while Selby jumped to the head of the line in my
project planning, she’s been an integral part of my creative vision for some
time. I’m delighted to introduce her to you, and while she’s different from the
women of the Rocking L in one way, in another, she’s not. Selby is the kind of
woman you want on your side in a fight. She’s never let me down, and I don’t
think she’ll let you down either.

Juliette

Selby Jensen’s business card reads “Private
Investigator,” but to say the least, that downplays her real occupation. Let’s
hear it in her own words:

“You want to know what I do for a living? I rip souls
out. Cut heads off. Put silver bullets where silver bullets need putting. You
think there aren’t any monsters? . . . I have some disturbing news for you. You
might want to sit down. Monsters walk among us. I’m looking for one in
particular. In the meantime? I’m keeping the rest of them from eating people
like you.”

In this debut novel of her new paranormal mystery series,
Juliette Harper, author of The Lockwood Legacy books and The Study Club
Mysteries creates a cast of characters, most of whom have one thing in common;
they don’t have a pulse. The dead are doing just fine by Selby, who is
determined never to lose someone she loves again, but then a force of love more
powerful than her grief changes that plan.

Join Selby Jensen as she and her team track down a
shadowy figure tied to a murder at a girls’ school. What none of them realize,
however, is that in solving this case, they will enter a longer battle against
a larger evil.

For more information about this book please visit
Goodreads and Amazon. 

Juliette Harper is the pen name used by the writing team
of Patricia Pauletti and Rana K. Williamson. Descendants of the Rose is the
first installment of Harper’s debut Selby Jensen Paranormal Mystery series.

Pauletti, an Easterner of Italian descent, is an
accomplished musician with an eye for art and design. Williamson, a Texan,
worked as a journalist and university history instructor before becoming a
full-time freelance writer in 2002.

Juliette Harper is also the author of The Lockwood
Legacy, a nine-book chronicle of the lives of three sisters who inherit a ranch
in Central Texas following their father’s suicide. Three of the novels are
currently available: ‘Langston’s Daughters’, ‘Baxter’s Draw’, and ‘Alice’s Portrait’.
The fourth book, ‘Mandy’s Father’, will appear in Fall 2015.

And don’t miss her hilariously funny “cozy” ‘Study Club
Mysteries’, a light-hearted spinoff of The Lockwood Legacy. The books, set in
the 1960s, take on the often absurd eccentricities of small town life with
good-natured, droll humor. The first book, ‘You Can’t Get Blood Out of Shag
Carpet’, will be available shortly, with the second, ‘You Can’t Put a Corpse in a
Parade’, coming in Summer 2015.

For more information about Juliette Harper please visit the website and Twitter.

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