Former Antelope Valley Press Editor Karla Tipton Releases New Fantasy Novel Dangerous Reflections

LANCASTER, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2015 - PRLog -- Former Antelope Valley Press staff writer and editor, Karla Tipton, announces the release of her second historical fantasy novel, Dangerous Reflections (ISBN 978-1502812377), a time travel mystery involving a modern-day college graduate student, who stumbles into a world of magic mirrors, evil wizards, and English alchemy and discovers love along the way. Dangerous Reflections follows the release of Tipton’s first romantic fantasy, Rings of Passage (ISBN 9781493600243), a historical time travel novel featuring England’s King Richard III.

Set in in present-day Pennsylvania and Edwardian London, Dangerous Reflections tells the story of Martie Harris, a university graduate student in psychology who inherits a magic wand and seeks to solve a mystery left in a letter by her dying grandmother. With the help of her former Ph.D. advisor, the dark wizard Marcus Cirksena, Martie time travels through the aid of magic and mirrors to London in 1910, where she attempts to save her grandmother by stealing the Philosopher’s Stone and its life-giving elixir from a handsome wizard named Alastor.

A fast-paced romantic adventure packed with alchemy, illusion and family secrets, Dangerous Reflections explores relationships and illustrates how our perception of others changes what we see, and ultimately feel, about them. The novel builds around a number of intriguing characters, whose motives are slowly revealed against the turbulent setting of magic and mysticism in turn-of-the-century England. Tipton develops a story notable for its dramatic descriptions and finely nuanced atmosphere and surrounds the reader in the world she has created, keeping the tension perfectly balanced all the way to the novel’s climactic finish.

“I cut my literary teeth on gothic romances, Edgar Allan Poe, and the daytime vampire soap, Dark Shadows,” said Tipton.  “Long before there were sparkly vampires roaming through the cultural consciousness, I wrote about feisty modern women time traveling through history and falling in love with powerful men of myth and magic. Genre-bending has always come naturally to me; I enjoy shamelessly mixing it up, blending history, paranormal, time travel, fantasy and mystery into my novels.”

A native of Barberton, Ohio, Karla Tipton earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Kent State University. After graduation, she moved to the Mojave Desert in California, working at the Antelope Valley Press as a staff reporter and editor for 14 years specializing in rock journalism and historical feature writing. Tipton is currently a software tester for the U.S. Air Force. Her first novel, Rings of Passage, a time travel romance set in medieval England, features the historical figure King Richard III. Her second romantic fantasy, Dangerous Reflections, includes mystery, time travel, and the occult and was released in January 2015.

For more information on Karla Tipton or Dangerous Reflections, please visit: www.karlatipton.com or www.amazon.com.

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