Kerry A. Jones | Love, Magic, Honor....
At the start of each new year, my thoughts linger on endings and beginnings. I think of memories and changes and the finite things about which I have hope. Then, there are those things that carry over from year to year, and book to book. The idea of true love conquering all. Soul mates. Love at first sight.
In 2007, Loved Enough was released – my first contemporary romance and a story of love rekindled. Later in the year I ventured from contemporary into paranormal with Cast in Stone (Book One of the Quinguard Immortals Series.)
He waited seven hundred years to find her.
For what seemed an eternity, Julen endured a nightly punishment that never should have been his. Descended from a line of ancient warriors, he vowed not to become the creature his persecutors claimed he was - the creature they did their best to make him into. Now that he has found the healer who can end his nightly torment, the stirring she creates in his Agathyrsi blood threatens to bring more danger than redemption.
She was sworn to destroy him.
Sofia Evan, owner of Fortune's Cup coffeehouse, had been raised on family lore and responsibility passed down through generations on a rare parchment. She never believed the darkness and pain in its tales to be more than myth, never questioned the reasons for the gifts that set her apart from all the rest. Until one winter morning changes everything. Now the breathtaking man who haunts her waking hours is the very being whose curse she must put an end to - one way or another.
I’m very excited about 2008, which will see the release of Book Two in my Quinguard series. I love these characters! They’ve helped add a sense of magic, redemption and honor to the list of those things that must carry over…
Come visit me at www.myspace.com/kerrywrites, or stop by http://www.blacklyonpublishing.com/. Thanks for reading! And thanks, Fresh Fiction, for inviting me to blog here today.
Kerry A. Jones
Labels: contemporary, Kerry A. Jones, paranormal, Romance
posted by Fresh Fiction @ 8:00 AM
4 Comments:
Wow, Cast In Stone sounds really good! Did you have to do a lot of research as far as the time period goes? What kind of research did you do?
Mary
Thanks, Mary. :-) I researched Dacian wolf warriors and the actual Agathyrsi tribe, which really did exist. The rest is pure fiction!
Kerry, I love that you're writing about an actual tribe. I find things like that interesting, and it's definitely a bit different, which I enjoy. What was the most difficult part of writing this story?
The writing itself seemed to flow along really well as the characters took on lives of their own, but then... my life got in the way! I had to take a break for probably two months in the middle of finishing up the manuscript, then go back to it. So that was the most difficult part.
The Agathyrsi tribe was interesting, and I think I've included most of their major characteristics somewhere in the story. Even the bit about blue-tinted hair and the marking on Julen's arm. :-)
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