Paranormal author Darynda Jones and fantasy author Jeffe Kennedy will be celebrating the release of Seventh Grave and No Body and The Tears of the Rose: The Twelve Kingdoms Book 2, respectively, with a chat and signing Friday, December 5!

In Jone’s 7th Grave novel, “Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out Charley Davidson’s jugular and serve her body to Satan for dinner. So there’s that. But Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and as she retraces his last steps she learns he was conducting an investigation of his own, one that has Charley questioning everything she’s ever known about him. Add to that an ex-BFF who is haunting her night and day, a rash of suicides that has authorities baffled, and a drop-dead sexy fiancé who has attracted the attentions of a local celebrity, and Charley is not having the best week of her life. But all of that barely scratches the surface of her problems.”

And in Kennedy’s 2nd Mark of Tala novel, “Three sisters. Motherless daughters of the high king. The eldest is the warrior-woman heir;the middle child is shy and full of witchy intuition; and the youngest, Princess Amelia, she is as beautiful as the sun and just as generous.  Ami met her Prince Charming and went away to his castle on the stormy sea-cliffs-and that should have been her happily ever after. Instead, her husband lies dead and a war rages. Her middle sister has been taken into a demon land, turned into a stranger. The priests and her father are revealing secrets and telling lies. And a power is rising in Ami, too, a power she hardly recognizes, to wield her beauty as a weapon, and her charm as a tool to deceive…”

Jones lives in Portales, is a New York Times bestselling author, and has won awards for her writing. Kennedy, an award-winning author, lives in Santa Fe.

Come join Jones & Kennedy 7:00 pm Friday, December 5, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Boulevard NW (north of Griegos).

For more information, check out www.bkwrks.com…