Welcome to “At First Sight Saturday.” Today’s guest is author, Anna Taylor Sweringen, who gives us a ‘first sight’ scene from her book A Little in Love with Death and introduces us to hero, Mitchell and heroine, Sankofa. Be sure to leave a comment to let Anna know your thoughts about the scene….

Excerpt: “Oh Sankofa, thank God Langston reached you.”

She and Langston turned as one. From down the hall their cousin, Harlan Montgomery Jr. glided toward them in a manner closer to a roll than a stride. He waved and spoke again, but Sankofa didn’t hear a word. Beside him strode Mitchell Emerson, the man she’d loved then lost ten years ago.

Her stomach seized now as it had then. Only this time not with regret that punched her gut when they said goodbye, but with an emotion to which she thought herself immune.

Love.

Mitchell swallowed hard. Ten years hadn’t lessened the effect of Sankofa’s beauty on him. Photos in various alumni newsletters showed the gray in hair that had once been charcoal, the roundness in a face that had once been slender, the tiredness in a gaze that had once been energetic. He’d expected his ex-lover’s effect on him to be just as diminished.

His shoulders suddenly drooped, weighed down with the loss of what might have been.

Blurb: Ten years ago no one — not even the man who said he loved her — believed Sankofa Lawford’s story of being attacked by a ghost. Mitchell Emerson believes science and reason can account for the ghostly happenings at Umoja House. He seeks a rational explanation that will prove him right and hopefully regain Sankofa’s trust and love. Instead what he learns leaves his own beliefs shattered. Now reluctant allies, Mitchell and Sankofa uncover years of lies that threaten to pull them apart until help comes from an unexpected ally: the ghost itself.

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About Anna:  Anna M. Taylor is the gothic romance and women’s fiction penname of Anna Taylor Sweringen, a retired United Church of Christ and Presbyterian Church USA minister. She has been writing seriously since joining Romance Writers of America in 2003. Her first published work appeared in 2008 under her inspirational romance penname, Anna Taylor. Her first erotic romance was published in 2016 with The Wild Rose Press as Michal Scott. Her Haunted Harlem contemporary gothic romance series launched in June 2020.

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