A few months ago, my husband asked me a question.
Where did the vampires in your books come from?
As I stared at him in confusion, I realized I’d never thought about it before, but I started to wonder how they were created.
Suddenly, that’s all I could think about. I imagined how vampires might have been created. When? Where? Why? Out of hatred? Out of love?
It became a bit of an obsession. It was then that I decided to write this book. I’d been planning the first book in the Bitten spin-off series, Blood and Bone, and knew that this story could bridge the gap. Plus, by then, Aveta and Alaunus had taken up permanent residence in my brain. It had to tell their story.
Each chapter is titled after a Tarot card from the Major Arcana (Greater Secrets). There are several types of Tarot, but the one I used closely resembles the Waite deck. Though Tarot is rarely literal, I used the cards I felt best represented what happens in each chapter. I am by no means a Tarot expert, but I felt the symbolism in each card resonated with the chapters and the characters at each stage in the story.
I hope you enjoy Aveta and Alaunus’ story as much as I did. They are the beginning and, someday, the end.