Mocha Memoirs Press Focus #7: Sumiko Saulson
This month I’m following up the previous series (eSpec Books) with a new one — this time the amazing writers of Mocha Memoirs Press. Meet Sumiko Saulson!
Tell us a bit about your latest work.
I am really happy to announce that Mocha Memoirs Press has picked up my horror / paranormal romance series. The series revolves around a series of Greek deities known as Oneiros who are aspects of dreams, personified. This in particular revolves around the subset of erotic nightmares. The books combine horror, dark fantasy, romance, and kinky erotica. There are four books at this time: Happiness and Other Diseases, Somnalia, Insatiable, and Akmani. And I am already getting started on the outline for a fifth book, Phobetor.
The series starts with Happiness and Other Diseases. The central protagonist, Flynn Keahi, is being haunted by disturbing nightmares where a succubus-like creature calling itself Mercy is latching herself onto his repressed sadomasochistic sexual desires. Initially, he finds himself exhausted, depleted of energy. Overtime, things worsen and he wakes up with unexplained injuries on his body. The creature is becoming increasingly able to affect him in the waking world. Mercy and her siblings are trying to break out of the dream world and into the mortal realm.
Alarmed by this, her great-grandmother, Nyx, a Titan, becomes involved. If Mercy and company disturb the natural order, it may create conflict with her old nemesis, Zeus. She is ready to destroy Mercy and her entire line, when her son, Somnus, the personification of sleep, intervenes on their behalf. Nyx tells him that if Flynn survives, his grandchildren, the Somnali (grandchildren of Somnus) will also survive. But if he dies, all of them will die and be forced to reincarnate as mortals with no memory of their divine origin. Somnus is allowed to assign a champion to protect Flynn. He assigns half-human Charlotte. She tries to protect Flynn, but her lust and romantic attraction towards him create even more danger for the mere mortal Flynn.
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