This was the book that actually started it all. I have no idea what I was doing now… washing dishes, driving somewhere, trying to fall asleep, but I thought, out of nowhere, What if he hated her? What if he loved her so much but she did something and now he wanted to kill her. That was it. I thought this little ember, this little tiny spark, would be the beginning of a standalone, or maybe a trilogy since I like writing them. I started to think about it. Why would he hate her? What could she have possibly done? What if he only thought she did the thing?
That led me to realize I needed to back up. I couldn’t start with him hating her. I wanted more. I wanted him to be so irrevocably in love with her that that passion, that fire, could turn into hate, loathing, at the drop of a hat. But it was important to me she didn’t do what he thought she did, and it took me 90k words of explanation. That would have been a pretty long prologue!
As you can imagine, that little spark turned into a forest fire, and this story, from the first sentence, until now, while I’m typing out this blog post, has pretty much consumed me. I’ve written other things between editing these books, and with every editing pass, the story became stronger and more fleshed out. I’m to the point now where I can’t do any more to them, and I’m not going to try. I’m proofing for typos one more time, praying I don’t edit in a mistake while I’m trying to fix one.
Book one ends on a pretty hard cliffhanger. You’ll want to read book two right away to see what happens (I hope!), and book two picks up right where book one leaves off. Well, maybe not right after, but if I talk anymore about books one or two, I’m going to start giving away spoilers, and all the spoilers I want you to have are in the blurbs. Writing the blurbs was hard just because the story builds, and you need to start with book one. The blurbs will give away some information, but hopefully only in a way that will excite you to read the series.
Here’s the book cover and blurb for book two:
Zane
I know the second Stella’s back in King’s Crossing, and I want nothing more than to tear her into pieces the way she did to me the day she ran away with another man.
But I’m not the only one who wants her dead, and when she risks her life visiting my sister, I realize that Ash isn’t as innocent as he wants me to believe.
Now Stella and I must work together to find justice for my parents, and maybe I can prove to her that despite all these years of hating her, I still love her, too.
Stella
When Zarah watched Ashton Black kidnap me, she snapped, and for five years, we were both Ash’s prisoner: me at Black Enterprises, Zarah locked away at a sanatorium.
Until I escape.
Now someone wants to kill me, and they almost succeed until Richard Denton, Kagan Maddox’s previous business partner, saves me.
He’s been trying to uncover who murdered Zane’s parents.
I have proof.
We need Zane’s help to destroy the Blacks and avenge Zane’s parents’ deaths, but working with Zane is strictly business.
I trusted him once with my heart . . . I won’t do it again.
That’s all I have this time around… I’m trying to post more on social media, and if you want to follow me, I’m on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vaniamargenerheault/ and/or you can follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/VRheault. I’ll be posting graphics and teasers that don’t fit in a blog/newsletter, so following me, at least on Instagram, would be perfect.
Thanks for reading!
VM Rheault 