While the first book of my Infinity: Earth series is labeled a "paranormal romance," the second one is most definitely a critter of a whole 'nother breed. It's a coming-of-age tale, featuring young Cory Flynn. His mother is Rachel Flynn, a detective on the small Redburn police force, investigating a spate of murders with definite vampiric overtones. She thinks it might be one of the new "freaks," who started turning up after the plagues that swept across the world the previous couple of years. But she's not at all sure.
Cory and his best friend, Ben, are attacked and Cory is dragged away while Ben is left to explain his disappearance to Cory's mom as best he can.
As it turns out, Rachel is on the trail of a vampire. But she's not the only one. The creature that snatched young Cory is a vampire as well--her creator. He gives Cory a choice--either accept what he offers, or die knowing that everything he loves will be destroyed. Cory makes the only choice he possibly can. The vampire, Dave, drains him to the point of death and leaves him there in the darkness to be transformed by the nosferatu virus as it has its way with him.
He awakes ravenous, but remembering what Dave told him before leaving him to die. He begins recruiting soldiers to his side in the coming war. The self-proclaimed Queen of the Night, the vampire bitch who's been killing his neighbors, is building an army of the undead. He has little choice but to do the same.
Cory is young to have such responsibility thrust upon him and ends up making several missteps right off the bat. His situation makes an enemy of his best friend, and his thirst gets the better of him several times before he gets a handle on it.
In the meantime the townspeople begin dying or disappearing in greater numbers while Rachel and her fellow detectives try to make sense of it all. Rachel is caught between concern for her son--whom everyone else fears is dead--and a driving need to solve these terrible crimes.
Enter Amanda Keening-Grey--Federal agent, mage, and all around kick-ass heroine. Even though she doesn't look a day over thirteen or fourteen. She's been sent by Athena Cross, temporary head of the Paranormal Affairs Commission. Taking care of this little problem is her graduation exercise, the one thing she has to accomplish to be promoted to full agent.
And what's worse is that in the midst of all of this, Rachel and Amanda discover that some people are not at all what they originally seemed to be.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Character studies Part I
What do I mean by that? Well, I've spent a good part of the day trying to come up with suitable quotes for various characters--quotes I mean to use on tee-shirts featuring different characters. Like Loki.
Most people know Loki as the Norse god of mischief and/or evil. In old Pre-Christian mythology he's more a god of chaos--the Lord of Misrule. In later tales he begins to shift toward evil, taking on aspects of the Christian deity of evil.
In Marvel comics, particularly the stories of Thor, Loki is also considered a villain.
I, on the other hand, wanted to something different. In my universe Loki's one of the immortals, a race of beings who fled to an Earth very much like our own after their own world was destroyed. Loki's a scientist, though not what anyone would consider a particularly good one. While most scientists would prefer to make a rational, reasoned approach to things, Loki tends toward gut-level inspiration and experimentation. Which, as one can imagine, leads to a lot of trouble.
Take "Loki's Sin." It's the title of my very first book, as well as a term coined to describe what Loki did. he has a habit of going off half-cocked and doing things without considering the possible ramifications. The law of unintended consequences has Loki's name written all over it.
In trying to recreate the virus that made him immortal to save the life of a young woman with whom he'd grown rather attached, Loki accidentally turns her into a vampire. The first real vampire, as a matter of fact. But he's just getting started. He also discovered that humanity had lost its ability to work magic not through anything we had done, but because the alien Cen (or Centians, in the first book) had damaged our DNA to take away the gift. Loki introduced a series of nanoviruses to fix this malady, as well as other perceived maladies, but didn't really grasp what he was setting in motion.
Loki killed tens of thousands of people as their bodies fought and rejected the viruses. Those who survived, however, were enhanced in various ways. They became superheroes and wielders of magic.
He'd honestly only had the best of intentions. Unfortunately, we all know where that particular not-so-yellow brick road leads.
So Loki's neither hero nor villain in my universe. Just a guy prone to making really big mistakes.
Most people know Loki as the Norse god of mischief and/or evil. In old Pre-Christian mythology he's more a god of chaos--the Lord of Misrule. In later tales he begins to shift toward evil, taking on aspects of the Christian deity of evil.
In Marvel comics, particularly the stories of Thor, Loki is also considered a villain.
I, on the other hand, wanted to something different. In my universe Loki's one of the immortals, a race of beings who fled to an Earth very much like our own after their own world was destroyed. Loki's a scientist, though not what anyone would consider a particularly good one. While most scientists would prefer to make a rational, reasoned approach to things, Loki tends toward gut-level inspiration and experimentation. Which, as one can imagine, leads to a lot of trouble.
Take "Loki's Sin." It's the title of my very first book, as well as a term coined to describe what Loki did. he has a habit of going off half-cocked and doing things without considering the possible ramifications. The law of unintended consequences has Loki's name written all over it.
In trying to recreate the virus that made him immortal to save the life of a young woman with whom he'd grown rather attached, Loki accidentally turns her into a vampire. The first real vampire, as a matter of fact. But he's just getting started. He also discovered that humanity had lost its ability to work magic not through anything we had done, but because the alien Cen (or Centians, in the first book) had damaged our DNA to take away the gift. Loki introduced a series of nanoviruses to fix this malady, as well as other perceived maladies, but didn't really grasp what he was setting in motion.
Loki killed tens of thousands of people as their bodies fought and rejected the viruses. Those who survived, however, were enhanced in various ways. They became superheroes and wielders of magic.
He'd honestly only had the best of intentions. Unfortunately, we all know where that particular not-so-yellow brick road leads.
So Loki's neither hero nor villain in my universe. Just a guy prone to making really big mistakes.
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