The Messenger (Mortal Beloved #1) by Pamela DuMond

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“All the excitement of OUTLANDER if it was a YA series.”

THE MESSENGER is optioned for film/TV.

Sixteen-year-old Madeline’s meant to fall in love with Samuel in every lifetime. But she meets him for the first time when she accidentally time travels into the past—hundreds of years before she’s even born.

Their relationship is forbidden—Samuel’s half Native, Madeline’s white. Every rendezvous they share must be secret. Each moment they spend together tempts the odds that they’ll be discovered and brutally punished. But their love is fated—and they musk risk it all.

Danger intensifies when Madeline learns she’s in the past not only to fall in love, but also to claim her birth right as a Messenger—a soul who can slip through time’s fabric at will. She can bring messages that change one life or even save many.

Deadly Hunters, dark-souled time travelers, crave Madeline’s powers and seek to seduce or kill her. Can Madeline find her way back to the future in time to save herself and Samuel?

Continue reading Madeline and Samuel’s romantic saga in…

The Assassin (Mortal Beloved, Book 2) — publishing early 2015.

The Seeker (Mortal Beloved, Book 3) — publishing fall 2015.

GUEST POST

Time Travel: Love second chance or obstacle?

Madeline meets Samuel after she ‘officially’ time travels for the first time. I don’t want to include too many spoilers, but she will meet up with him in other books and other adventures.

Unfortunately for Madeline, Samuel never remembers who she is when she lands in a different slice of history. Samuel is a ‘Healer’. Healers don’t time travel—they re-incarnate. So in one lifetime, Madeline and Samuel can fall in love, but when she finds him in another lifetime—he doesn’t remember her.

And yes, this is enormously frustrating as well as heartbreaking. 

A sneak peek into The Assassin (Mortal Beloved, Book Two) reveals new information: 

Madeline discovers that the more she connects with Samuel in different lifetimes can help build a primitive, rudimentary memory of her in his DNA, his brain, and his soul. 

You know those déjà vu moments? The ones where you feel a little confused, and magical all at the same time, and you think: 

I’ve done this before. 

I’ve never met that person but it feels like I know him. 

Wait - this conversation, this action has already played out. 

I feel like I’ve been here before. 

That heightened sense of memory, almost a sixth sense, can build for Samuel the more he and Madeline intertwine their hearts and lives through a series of dangerous adventures that occur in subsequent books in this series. The life and death obstacles they confront—be they historical, or within The Messenger mythology can strengthen their bond. 

I do consider this a second chance as well as an obstacle for Madeline, and Samuel—especially as his memories of her grow.

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About the author:

Pamela DuMond is the author who discovered Erin Brockovich’s life story, thought it would make a great movie and pitched it to ‘Hollywood’.

She writes romantic comedic mysteries, romantic YA time travel and New Adult romance.

Her book The Story of You and Me was a Quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakout Novel Award (ABNA) 2014 in Romance.

Cupcakes, Pies, and Hot Guys was a Quarterfinalist in ABNA 2013 in Mystery .

She’s addicted to TV shows — The Voice and Reign. The movies Love Actually and The Bourne trilogy (with Matt Damon — not that other actor guy,) make her cry ever time she watches them. (Like — a thousand.)

When she’s not writing Pamela’s also a chiropractor and cat wrangler. She loves reading, the beach, working out, movies, TV, animals, her family and friends. She lives in Venice, California with her fur-babies.

She likes her coffee strong, her cabernet hearty, her chocolate dark, her foods non-GMO and she lives for a good giggle.

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