I meant to introduce you all to Zero last week, but I completely spaced it. I’ll blame it on the combination of pain and pain meds. So today, I want to do that, but yesterday my publisher emailed me with the cover for In Gathering Shade, and as an added bonus, he included the re-designed
Evan Chayton is a Shifter, though he keeps that fact very well guarded. As he first appears in the beginning of In Gathering Shade, only a small group of people know his secret. He is also a military man who is assigned to Adam Darvin’s secretive organization. Raven chooses him to be her handler when Adam
Like Raven, we first meet Mila and Maddie in Through Shade and Shadow, though they are largely relegated to the background. When we first meet them, Alaric and his friends, following a vision, help them escape from the 8th Battalion along with Sahara. Mila is nineteen. Maddie has just turned sixteen. Through that first encounter
We met Raven briefly in Through Shade and Shadow, as one of the agents that Mason Jerah works with at the unnamed government agency, but in the next book, In Gathering Shade, Raven comes to the foreground. We first meet her when she is helping an instructor teach hand to hand skills to a group
I spent my evenings last week working through the edits sent to me by my amazing Editor and by Saturday morning it was time for a final read through to make sure I had carried some changes all the way through. Sunday at around noon, I was done and all that was left was sending
There’s something about going green…I mean, it’s not like it’s strange these days to see people with wild colors in their hair. On a daily basis I see blues and pinks and purples in a variety of shades and styles. But green isn’t as common. I’ve always loved the color, from a faded mint to
The first book in the Shades & Shadows series, we only meet a few of the women who will become a big part of the series moving forward. We met Emily Lambrecht, the mother to Alaric, and wife of the leader of their clan and Sahara Katan, a Shifter without a family who reluctantly takes
Sahara is the first female character I’m introducing, she is also the first Shifter. Sahara is a woman in her thirties, with mixed heritage that is Indian and Mexican. She is also a Shifter, and her animal form is a large lioness. We meet Sahara when Alaric and his friends attempt to liberate her, and
Bryan Wagner is a part of Alaric’s clan, a close friend of Alaric’s father. He has been a part of Alaric’s life for a long time. As the story opens, Bryan is in his late thirties and with Alaric serves as one of Anson Lambrecht’s Keepers. Bryan was raised with more formal training than many
Alaric Lambrecht is the second main character in Through Shade and Shadow. As the story opens, Alaric is twenty four years old and he has had a pretty charmed life. His parents are not wealthy, but they are upper middle class. He’s never wanted for anything. At seventeen, his father tapped him to be one of
