It was fun to be on the radio as the guest of Neal Steele, XTRA 99.1. We talked about the art show I painted for Farrah Ferand, the heroine of my book and how I should have signed her name to the work. I told Neal that I named her for Farrah Faucett because I liked her so much in the long-ago TV hit, "Charlie's Angels". You can hear the podcast of the broadcast if you click on the blue icon.
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February 2016
Mary
Montague Sikes
Author of
Evening of the Dragonfly
Tune in to XTRA 99.1FM to hear the Author interviewed by Neal
Steele on CBW's Second Monday monthly broadcast, February 8th at
about 8:05AM. If you missed the live broadcast, click the icon
below.
About the Book
Threatening telephone calls and
strange cars with dark-tinted windows plague
artist/teacher Farrah Ferand. Recovering from the
tragic loss of her mother, Farrah is trying to adapt
to the life of a small-town art teacher when she
encounters Dirk Lawrence, a mysterious stranger. Her
attraction to him is immediate and electric until
Farrah discovers Dirk is part of the Lawrence and
Pendesky investment firm that led to her mother's
downfall a few years earlier. Farrah's not too
perfect dating relationship with Tom Douglas, the
town favorite football coach, worsens.
An unexpected encounter leads to
dates with Dirk and his help with the construction
of a dream art studio in her rented house. But
trouble looms with Tom who believes he and Farrah
are engaged, and the entire town appears to be drawn
in. Haunting dreams and lost memories overwhelm
Farrah as she creates paintings for a one-person art
show. Will shadows of the past ruin all hope for
Farrah and Dirk?
About the Author
Mary Montague Sikes grew up near the
bloody Civil War battlefields of Central Virginia
where thousands died. Those early years in a
landscape where tears still flowed sparked her
interest in the psychic and the paranormal that
carries over into her writing today.
Sikes loves to travel, especially to the Caribbean and Jamaica where she discovered the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall Great House that inspired her first novel, Hearts Across Forever. More psychic encounters in Sedona, Arizona led to her novel, Eagle Rising. Adventures in Antigua became the book, Secrets by the Sea. Then, an escapade in Trinidad developed into the story of Night Watch. Her love of "Indiana Jones" type quests took her to the Maya Ruins of Palenque and eventually directed her to write Jungle Jeopardy.
She has been told by readers that her novel, Daddy's Christmas Angel, set in a small fictitious American town, is the "best book I've ever read". The romance is a little like "Sleepless in Seattle" and has a happy ending.An artist before she was an author, Mary Montague Sikes has a scrapbook with drawings she made as a two-year-old. Like Farrah Ferand in Evening of the Dragonfly, she spends many hours each month in a painting studio built over her garage. When she isn't writing or painting, she enjoys travel to exotic destinations that might one day become part of her Passenger to Paradise book series.
Sikes loves to travel, especially to the Caribbean and Jamaica where she discovered the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall Great House that inspired her first novel, Hearts Across Forever. More psychic encounters in Sedona, Arizona led to her novel, Eagle Rising. Adventures in Antigua became the book, Secrets by the Sea. Then, an escapade in Trinidad developed into the story of Night Watch. Her love of "Indiana Jones" type quests took her to the Maya Ruins of Palenque and eventually directed her to write Jungle Jeopardy.
She has been told by readers that her novel, Daddy's Christmas Angel, set in a small fictitious American town, is the "best book I've ever read". The romance is a little like "Sleepless in Seattle" and has a happy ending.An artist before she was an author, Mary Montague Sikes has a scrapbook with drawings she made as a two-year-old. Like Farrah Ferand in Evening of the Dragonfly, she spends many hours each month in a painting studio built over her garage. When she isn't writing or painting, she enjoys travel to exotic destinations that might one day become part of her Passenger to Paradise book series.
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