BOOK BLAST
Book Title: Interview with the Tarot Reader
Author: Kathy Kaye
Publisher: Vanguard Press, Cambridge, UK
Cover Artist: Image licensed from Adobe Publishers
Release Date: May 29, 2025
Genres: Contemporary F/F Romance, Slightly Speculative
Tropes: Intrigue, romance, spiritual insight, wisdom of the universe
Themes: Human connection and loss, coincidence and destiny, self-discovery
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 40 000 words/201 pages
It is Book 1 of 3. Books 2 and 3 are being written.
Book 2, The Tarot Connection, will be published in mid 2026.
This book ends on a cliffhanger.
A captivating tale of love, fate, and the power of the unknown.
In the heart of San Francisco, two strangers find themselves inexplicably connected in a moment that transcends time and space. As they navigate this unexplainable bond, they are drawn into a world of mystery and self-discovery that will change their lives forever.
Interview with the Tarot Reader weaves a captivating tale of love, fate, and the power of the unknown. Join Marie Cameron, a renowned tarot card reader, as she delves into the depths of the human soul and uncovers the secrets that lie within. With a blend of intrigue, romance, and spiritual insight, this novel will leave you questioning the boundaries of reality and the true nature of connection.
Interview with the Tarot Reader is a mesmerizing journey, where the answers you seek may be found in the most unexpected of places.
“Welcome, viewers. My name is Cole Hardigan with San Francisco at Night. We are delighted to have a special guest with us this evening, Tarot Card Reader Marie Cameron.
“Marie, thank you for being here.”
Marie smiled. “My pleasure.” She felt her heart flutter, nervous as she sometimes became at the beginning of an interview or mingling in the public eye.
“As many of you are aware, Marie is a well-respected tarot reader, lecturer, and writer here in the Bay area. And she is a celebrity in her own right, with more than thirty years’ experience reading tarot cards for the famous as well as the infamous, the ordinary as well as the quite extraordinary.
“Marie has just published her best-selling memoir, The Messages of Tarot: Keys to an Intentional Life, which details her years and the people she has met practicing her profession.
“So, let us begin.” He tuned to his subject. “Marie, several years ago you experienced what you describe in your book as the defining moment in your career, in which you helped two young adults come to an understanding of an event, an occurrence that is ‘not of this world.’ This event, this connection between the two individuals, is so rare, you say, that it is often not discussed.”
Marie: “That is correct.”
Cole: “We want to open up that world tonight. Can you explain for us just what it was that happened?”
Marie: “Yes, of course.” She folded her hands and began. “I had the good fortune of meeting two individuals of different races, ages, genders who met by chance on a San Francisco sidewalk and instantly connected or, more accurately, reconnected, experiencing a bonding between them that, as you described, is not of this world. This type of connection with another has been defined in tarot literature as of another realm, but of a connected realm that is the entirety of the universe.”
Cole: “But how does it occur, this so-called connection?”
Marie: “It is when time and motion stop. There are no decades, no centuries, no millennia. There is nothing that separates one period in time from another. People describe the first recognition of a connection as time standing still and a continuum of being. What was, is. And will be. What this connection brings is peace within oneself and with another beyond anything imaginable.”
Cole: “Can you talk about that a bit more? About the peace you mention?”
Marie: “My understanding is that it is a feeling of oneness, of knowing, and finally of understanding the universe. And oneself.”
Cole: “Some might say this is heading into woo-woo territory.”
Marie smiled. “The closest I can describe it is the sense of grace and peacefulness that occurs for some within their religion.”
Cole: “So tarot is religious then?”
Marie paused, having been asked this question many times. “Tarot is a pathway that may lead to understandings that certainly could be construed as spiritual and, yes, religious.”
Cole: “I see. Has tarot been that way for you?”
Marie hesitated again, the question personal. “I found answers within tarot that I did not find anywhere else. And that occurred because tarot helped me reframe and refine my own questions about life. It can help others do the same.
“For example, the question ‘Will I be rich?’ can be rephrased to ‘Will I find wealth in a way I had not anticipated.’ That question opens possibilities, redefining wealth as not just about money. For some individuals, monetary wealth is not an answer. It really shouldn’t be a question.”
Cole: “Thought provoking. Getting back to the two individuals, what did their so-called connection do for them?”
Marie: “It gave them an awareness of their place in time and to one another that will be unending and unbroken.”
Cole: “Did you believe, at first, that this connection had actually occurred?”
Marie: “I did.”
Cole: “How is it you came to be associated with them?”
Kathy Kaye is a former writer and editor for the American Medical Association, Harvard Medical School, and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. She received a degree in English Literature from Illinois State University and completed a certificate in Wine Technology at South Seattle College’s Northwest Wine Academy. For many years she was co-owner of a small vineyard in eastern Washington State. She resides in Shoreline, Washington.
Kaye is currently writing two story series: the Warehouse Winery Mystery series, a police procedural, set in Woodinville, Washington, where, in real life, she sold winemakers the grapes she grew; and the Tarot Reader series. Interview with the Tarot Reader is book one of three in this series. Book two, The Tarot Connection, will be published in 2026.
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