The Great Books Series (updated)…

“Not Death, But Love.”

Pain choked off anymore words. She grabbed the cold stone marker for support, splayed her hands across its front as a sob wrenched free from her chest.

Although she knows that the Amish way is to move on from grief, on to a new season, Hannah cannot move on from Jacob, who was taken too soon.

Jacob’s brother Levi also cannot move on-his love for Hannah burns just as strong as ever. But he knows how much Hannah loved his brother, and the event that took Jacob from them.

And it’s a secret he must take to his grave.

So when a mysterious stranger comes to their community, he too carries a secret; one that will force Hannah to choose between light and dark, between the one she wants to love and a new yearning she fears to embrace.*

[*Ken Spoiler Alert: The secret is that he’s a vampire.] Praise for Plain Fear: Forsaken

“An intense, powerful novel of love and loss, deception and deliverance.”
-Nancy Haddock, national bestselling author of Always the Vampire

“This is a haunting, heartbreaking story told with such beauty and intensity, it took my breath away. You don’t want to miss this one!”
-Lenora Worth, author of the New York Times bestseller Body of Evidence

“In a word…captivating. Leanna Ellis creates a world seemingly simplistic but teeming with complexity. Her take on vampires  is fresh, dark, and at times heartbreaking. Forsaken is a book you won’t want to miss.”
-Elisabeth Naughton, author of Tempted

“Leanna Ellis has written an emotionally powerful story with an unusual twist to the vampire legend.” -Nina Bangs, USA Today Bestselling Author

“With Forsaken, Leanna Ellis takes readers on a thrilling journey to the dark side of Amish life and beyond. Leanna Ellis’s keen eye for detail, sensitive prose and knowledge of the Amish brings Forsaken to vivid, wonderful life. Forsaken exemplifies the ultimate literary juxtaposition of good and evil, and is made all the more powerful by Ellis’s ability to paint a vivid and realistic picture Amish life.” -Linda Castillo, New York Times bestselling author

UPDATE:

Shiny vampires make me want to punch a shark!

Apparently you aren’t alone:

UPDATE THE SECOND!

Vampires never did so well with the Goon around…

Well, that’s because the Goon is all about the prep work…


  • Mendou

    I think I sprained my eyes rolling them. I’m waiting for the vampire craze to collapse under its self-important prolonged-teenage angst any minute now. I miss the days when vampires were personifications of sexually-transmitted diseases rather than fetish objects……

  • John Campbell

    Shiny vampires make me want to punch a shark!

  • KeithB

    Just what we need: a Twilight/Witmess Mashup.

  • @Mendou: Haven’t you heard? STI’s are a fetish object with some people now, so the old metaphors still work. *shudders*

    Seriously folks. The publishers didn’t get enough money out of Twilight making vampires Mormon, so now they’re making them AMISH?!?

  • Reed

    Damn it, beaten to the shark punch!

  • Rock Baker

    Uhhhhhh……….

  • The Rev.

    Man, I love the Goon.

  • Vampires never did so well with the Goon around…

  • Gamera

    You know with as many crosses and Bibles you see in an Amish community I’d think a vampire would feel about as comfortable as a vegan at a BBQ cook-off.

    Now a story about a vampire shark I might find interesting. Even better would be a movie where the shark fights Zoltan: The Hound of Dracula…

  • If you made them giants I think you could sell that to the SyFy Network right quick.

  • Gamera

    Good idea Ken, and one or both of them would have to be a secret US government bioweapon project.

  • Flangepart

    Ooh,ooh, and have it involve Area 52, and alien DNA, and zombies. GOTTA have Zombies these days…

  • Rock Baker

    You forgot the giant cartoon snakes. If the Sci-Fi Channel means anything, its dumb cheapo movies with giant cartoon snakes.

  • The Goon is a great comic.

  • Marsden

    Hold the shark punching, I can’t get past that last quote: “The dark side of Amish life” WTSP?

    What is the dark side of Amish life? And I thought Weird Al totally covered that with his startling expose “Amish Paradise”

    Please now go back to your Shark punching.

    Would that work with Sharktopus? Punch the Sharktopus doesn’t sound as good.

    Punching the Megashark sounds cool, that’s like a really good shark punching.

  • Mr. Rational

    Yes, if “to punch the Megashark” is double-plus-good shark punching, I think we can all agree that “to punch the Sharktopus” is a double-plus-ungood attempt at shark-punching.

  • The Rev.

    Don’t know if anyone will see this unrelated post, but…

    Anyone in the Dallas area have any interest in catching a movie at the upcoming Asian Film Festival of Dallas? Sandy might be interested to know they’re screening Zebraman 2 Saturday the 16th, late at night. (He and I enjoyed the first one.) There are a couple of others that might be fun as well. I’d love to get a small contingent out there to see something together. Let me know, because I’m betting tickets for most movies will go fast. A few years ago I tried to get into Godzilla: Final Wars, never suspecting it’d be sold out before I even got there. Therefore, moving fast would be optimal (you can order online, and even save a buck doing so vs. paying at the box office).

  • Reed

    Rev, where is that film fest held? It takes a lot to get me to cross the metroplex on a weekend (I’m on the Fort Worth side), but I might give it a go. Have to talk to the boss.

  • The Rev.

    The Magnolia on McKinney, just north of downtown.

  • Ericb

    Looks like it time for me to get off my a** and write that Vegan Vampire/Hasidic Jews saga I’ve been thinking about.

  • The Goon fought Ro-Man?!