#COOKING WITH CLORIS--AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR NANCY GARDNER'S PARANORMAL COZY SLEUTH LILY SCOTT AND CHAMOMILE LAVENDER SHORTBREAD

Today we sit down to chat with Lily Scott from Nancy Gardner’s paranormal cozy, Dream Stalker.  

What was life like for you before your author started pulling your strings? 

I had a daughter, a husband, an herbal medicine business, and a quiet life as a practicing Salem witch. Now my husband is dead, and my daughter is in jail for murder. Nancy Gardner ruined my life!

 

What is your greatest fear? 

That I’ll have to use my power to walk into other people’s dreams, a power that long-ago ended in disaster.

 

What’s the one trait you like most about yourself? 

My ability to heal people’s aches and pains with herbs. Clients come from miles around for a consultation to address what ails them. And many of them return to tell me that my tinctures and teas have changed their lives. 

 

What’s your least favorite trait? 

Indecisiveness often leads me down the wrong path, like not stopping my daughter Sarah from running off with that abusive boyfriend. I was too worried that I’d interfere and make matters worse, as I did when I was twelve, made a bad decision, and broke my Nana’s heart.

 

What’s the strangest thing your author had you do? 

Break into a stranger’s home. At least I had a friend with burglary experience as back-up.

 

If you could rewrite part of your story, what would it be and why? 

There is one character in the story who dies. I wish he’d lived because I think he was a decent person despite a few bad choices.

 

Which character in your story bugs you the most? 

My sister, the saintly nun who runs a homeless shelter. She and I have been at odds all our lives. I think she’s jealous because I was born with the firefly-shaped birthmark of a dream-walker, and she wasn’t.

 

What’s next for you? 

My author is busily cooking up more trouble for me that involves a niece I never knew I had, and a threat to the larger Salem community that must be headed off before it’s too late. She’s a mean one, that author of mine.

 

Tell us something about your author. 

She has been working on Dream Stalker for over ten years. Sometimes I wish she had quit instead of ruining my quiet life. Other times I find my new life exciting. 

 

Where can readers find her website and blog? 

Learn more about Nancy and her books at her website and her blog.

 

Is there anything else you’d like to add? 

I’d like to share a recipe for Chamomile and Lavender Shortbread. Together these two herbs are natural sedatives and anti-inflammatories. If you try your hand at baking them, I think you’ll love the delectable odor that fills the kitchen. I topped the pictured cookies with dried, blue butterfly sweet-pea flowers that come with health benefits of their own. Enjoy! 

Dream Stalker

Can you uncover evil in another’s dreams? You can if you were born with the birthmark of a dream-walker. Lily Scott, a modern Salem witch, was born with this mark like the line of maternal ancestors that came before her. But Lily’s first adolescent attempt at dream-walking ended in disaster.

 

Now, decades later, her world explodes. Her husband is dead. Her daughter faces prison for the murder of a local witch. Her estranged sister, a Roman Catholic nun, struggles to protect the band of aging homeless women in her care. Lily must decide: tap into her power to search for a killer or let her fear of the Dream Stalker hold her back? 

 

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