Take Five: Ann Aguirre and Hellfire

WU contributor Ann Aguirre has a new book–the second in her Corine Solomon series, Hellfire. We know you have inquiring minds; we know you want to know. So we asked Ann five questions about her new book to learn more.

Q: What’s the premise of your new book?

AA: I’m still a redhead. Before we left Texas, I touched up the roots, and then I had some tawny apricot highlights put in. I guessed that meant I intended to keep this color for a while. Symbolic—I’d made a commitment, at least to my hair.

As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and know its history. It’s too bad she can’t seem to forget her own. With her ex-boyfriend Chance in tow—lending his particularly supernatural brand of luck—Corine journeys back home to Kilmer, Georgia, in order to discover the truth behind her mother’s death and the origins of her “gift.”

But while trying to uncover the secrets in her past, Corine and Chance find that something is rotten in the state of Georgia. Just a few miles away, no one seems to know Kilmer exists. And inside the town borders there are signs of a dark curse affecting the town and all its residents—and it can only be satisfied with death…

Q: What would you like people to know about the story itself?

AA: It’s very creepy and atmospheric. Also, I think they’ll be surprised at the true evil.

Q: What do your characters have to overcome in this story? What challenge do
you set before them?

AA: A whole town that wants to kill them. They have to survive.

Q: What unique challenges did this book pose for you, if any?

AA: It was harder to make the Southern setting come alive since I’m not surrounded by it every day.

Q: What has been the most rewarding aspect of having written this book?

AA: Hearing that people enjoyed it.

Learn more about the book on Ann’s site, HERE.

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