We are excited to welcome Alexia Reed who is here to tell is about the first book her new Shadow Ops paranormal romance series, HUNTING THE SHADOWS (available now from Carina Press). Today she is talking about blending her love for science (forensics and anthropology) and suspense with paranormal romances.
Blending Genres
by
Alexia Reed
When I first started to read, the books I read exclusively were thrillers. I enjoyed those with a fast pace, the kind where they are hunting down killers. Before I got in to science and anthropology, I was very interested in profiling. In fact, I used to fill up notebooks on forensic facts that I found in encyclopedias (I grew up without the net until I was in highschool). When I started to read romance, it was always those with a suspense plot beneath.
I knew when I started writing Hunting the Shadows that I wanted a serial killer plot. It just made the most sense. Add a psychic who goes into the killer’s head, witnessing and feeling everything the killer does, and you get a paranormal romantic suspense. But on top of all that, I wanted to try and explain the paranormal through science. It’s taking long shots, but, I love trying to make sense of the paranormal in scientific terms. All of these aspects were worked in, creating J.C. and Amy.
