as a writer is that happy characters make for boring fiction. So I set out to make Andreas Reichen very, very unhappy. And very, very angry. By the time his story takes place, Andreas Reichen is a man on fire—in more ways than one!
Other introductions taking place in Veil of Midnight include the first on-page appearance of the Ancient, no longer in hibernation but imprisoned in Dragos’s breeding lab. We also meet for the first time, golden-eyed Hunter, one of Dragos’s homegrown assassins. Hunter is one of an unknown number of Gen Ones bred from the captive Ancient and raised to be emotionless killers, loyal to Dragos not only out of duty and training, but also because of the unremovable ultraviolet collar that keeps these lethal soldiers under his total control.
By the end of Veil of Midnight , Hunter is no longer shackled to Dragos’s command. Thanks to the Order—and a vision glimpsed in Mira’s prophesying eyes—Hunter leaves Montreal to join the Order in the fight against his creator and villainous master.
Veil of Midnight released in late December, 2008. It was my first book to stay on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists for four weeks straight!
Ashes of Midnight
BOOK 6
Romantic Leads
Andreas Reichen
Claire (Samuels) Roth
Plot Summary
Consumed by revenge for the murder of his kin, Darkhaven leader Andreas Reichen embarks on a quest of fiery retribution...a quest that leads him to the woman who once owned his heart, but who now belongs to his most treacherous enemy.
Primary Story Locations
Wilhelm Roth's Darkhaven estate outside Berlin, Germany
Wilhelm Roth’s office in Hamburg, Germany
Danika's little farmhouse in Denmark
Order's compound headquarters in undisclosed location in Boston
Claire's grandmother's estate in Newport, Rhode Island
Playlist
Broken by Seether and Amy Lee
Close to the Flame by H.I.M.
Going Under by Evanescence
All of This Past by Sarah Bettens
Dreamsleep by Collide
Falls on Me by Fuel
Story Background
So, I’d left poor Andreas Reichen in quite a state at the end of Veil of Midnight . As his story picks up in Ashes of Midnight , he is a man with a plan. And that plan is the total annihilation of his newly recognized enemy, a Breed male named Wilhelm Roth. A Breed male who’s been mated to Claire Samuels, the woman Andreas once loved—and lost—a long time ago.
Claire is one of the gentlest heroines in the series. But don’t mistake her calm exterior for weakness. True, she’s made some mistakes in her life—chief among them, doubting Andreas’s love for her and choosing another mate, the powerful Wilhelm Roth, after Andreas leaves her without a trace or a word of good-bye. Once she realizes the depth of her mistake many years later, after Andreas strides back into her life on a tide of fire and ash and bloody-minded vengeance over what Roth has done to Andreas’s loved ones, Claire is prepared to march into battle right along with him.
After writing Veil of Midnight and spending time on the page with a kickass heroine like Renata, I came to Ashes of Midnight still very much on a “I am woman, hear me roar” kind of high. It is in this book that the women of the Order—who now included newcomers Renata, Dylan, Elise, Tess and Gabrielle, in addition to Gideon’s longtime mate, Savannah—first step in to lend their own skills to the Order’s rising war against Dragos and his followers.
Although Lucan and his cadre of Breed warriors are strong, none of them paired up with a woman who would be willing to stand by and let her man fight alone when she has unique talents to lend to their missions. For Claire, that talent is dreamwalking, which she uses in Ashes of Midnight to help Andreas and the Order locate one of Dragos’s breeding labs and defeat one of his most dangerous lieutenants, Wilhelm Roth.
In the end, Dragos wins this round. His escape—and the hasty relocation of the
Other introductions taking place in Veil of Midnight include the first on-page appearance of the Ancient, no longer in hibernation but imprisoned in Dragos’s breeding lab. We also meet for the first time, golden-eyed Hunter, one of Dragos’s homegrown assassins. Hunter is one of an unknown number of Gen Ones bred from the captive Ancient and raised to be emotionless killers, loyal to Dragos not only out of duty and training, but also because of the unremovable ultraviolet collar that keeps these lethal soldiers under his total control.
By the end of Veil of Midnight , Hunter is no longer shackled to Dragos’s command. Thanks to the Order—and a vision glimpsed in Mira’s prophesying eyes—Hunter leaves Montreal to join the Order in the fight against his creator and villainous master.
Veil of Midnight released in late December, 2008. It was my first book to stay on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists for four weeks straight!
Ashes of Midnight
BOOK 6
Romantic Leads
Andreas Reichen
Claire (Samuels) Roth
Plot Summary
Consumed by revenge for the murder of his kin, Darkhaven leader Andreas Reichen embarks on a quest of fiery retribution...a quest that leads him to the woman who once owned his heart, but who now belongs to his most treacherous enemy.
Primary Story Locations
Wilhelm Roth's Darkhaven estate outside Berlin, Germany
Wilhelm Roth’s office in Hamburg, Germany
Danika's little farmhouse in Denmark
Order's compound headquarters in undisclosed location in Boston
Claire's grandmother's estate in Newport, Rhode Island
Playlist
Broken by Seether and Amy Lee
Close to the Flame by H.I.M.
Going Under by Evanescence
All of This Past by Sarah Bettens
Dreamsleep by Collide
Falls on Me by Fuel
Story Background
So, I’d left poor Andreas Reichen in quite a state at the end of Veil of Midnight . As his story picks up in Ashes of Midnight , he is a man with a plan. And that plan is the total annihilation of his newly recognized enemy, a Breed male named Wilhelm Roth. A Breed male who’s been mated to Claire Samuels, the woman Andreas once loved—and lost—a long time ago.
Claire is one of the gentlest heroines in the series. But don’t mistake her calm exterior for weakness. True, she’s made some mistakes in her life—chief among them, doubting Andreas’s love for her and choosing another mate, the powerful Wilhelm Roth, after Andreas leaves her without a trace or a word of good-bye. Once she realizes the depth of her mistake many years later, after Andreas strides back into her life on a tide of fire and ash and bloody-minded vengeance over what Roth has done to Andreas’s loved ones, Claire is prepared to march into battle right along with him.
After writing Veil of Midnight and spending time on the page with a kickass heroine like Renata, I came to Ashes of Midnight still very much on a “I am woman, hear me roar” kind of high. It is in this book that the women of the Order—who now included newcomers Renata, Dylan, Elise, Tess and Gabrielle, in addition to Gideon’s longtime mate, Savannah—first step in to lend their own skills to the Order’s rising war against Dragos and his followers.
Although Lucan and his cadre of Breed warriors are strong, none of them paired up with a woman who would be willing to stand by and let her man fight alone when she has unique talents to lend to their missions. For Claire, that talent is dreamwalking, which she uses in Ashes of Midnight to help Andreas and the Order locate one of Dragos’s breeding labs and defeat one of his most dangerous lieutenants, Wilhelm Roth.
In the end, Dragos wins this round. His escape—and the hasty relocation of the
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