Heritage
and magic matter to the London covens.
Aristocratic
witch, Isabella Pethany, has heritage but not magic.
Underworld
powerbroker, amnesiac vampire Maldit, has magic but no
heritage.
Lukas
Sindis, coven sorcerer and famous psychopath, has both.
Isabella
knows her null magic status makes her an embarrassment to her family,
but since Natalie, her sister, was murdered, she is all they have
left. Guilt makes her willing to do almost anything to compensate for
her lack of value, but her grandmother’s proposal to match her with
Lukas, in an attempt to bring strong magic back to their bloodline,
is a step too far.
When
Maldit rescues a strange witch from hunting vampires, his main
concern is to limit trouble in his territory. Everyone knows witches
are troublesome, and this one is no exception. Her proximity slashes
through his damaged memory, allowing him to catch glimpses of his
forgotten past.
Drugs
have suppressed Lukas’s magic for almost twenty years, filling him
with a reservoir of trapped power. When he escapes, his magic flies
free, washing over Maldit and Isabella, and clearing away the spells
paralysing both of them.
The
dark secrets of the London coven are about to explode into the light
of day.
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Where do story ideas come from?
Where do story ideas come from?
The above question
seems to arise on all sorts of writing courses, author-signing events and so
on. Where do writers get their ideas?
For me, they come
from all sorts of places. The idea for a story might loom, full formed, in the
front of my mind and I won’t have a clue about what nudged it into existence.
Of course, when I come to write it down, it might change completely.
More frequently, an
image, an emotion, or a sensation will be the seed for the story. My first
published novel, ‘Children of Poseidon – Lykos’, came from an idea I had while
swimming off the south coast of England. I was doing a pier-to-pier swim for
charity in appalling weather. When I finally finished and scrambled back up the
beach, I was battered, bruised and bloody. As I drank my finisher’s hot
chocolate, I pondered what it would be like to swim for your life. As a result,
I made my protagonist, Lila, jump overboard from a cargo ship, escaping from
her kidnappers and arrive, exhausted, on the beach of a Scottish island.
The two other books
in the ‘Children of Poseidon’ trilogy were spin-offs from the first, inspired
by secondary characters who demanded their own stories.
My science fiction
novel (under my own name) evolved from a short story published in the Lady
Magazine. It involved the escape of human hybrids from a military laboratory. I
wrote it in parallel with its sequel (my MA writing project). It is the only
non-romance novel I have written so far, and I’m not at all sure where the
original idea came from. I loved writing it.
‘Exile in Darkness’
is set in the same world as ‘Children of Poseidon’ but involves different
characters. It is the first in a new series, following the fortunes of a group
of misfits. At present, I am writing the story of Lukas Sindis. A prisoner from
the age of fourteen, he has little experience of the world and has no idea what
to do with his newfound freedom. His people view him as a pyschopath, dangerous
but useful, and if he wants to keep this freedom, he needs to show them that he
is something more than that. When he meets troubled empath, Robyn, he finds an
opportunity.
I love taking the
small seed of an idea and growing it into a fully-fledged story. I’m always
interested to hear how other authors find and develop their stories. So do
share...
Annalisa
Carr lives in the English Lake District, where she shares a view of
the fells with three cats. She spent the early part of her life
working as a protein crystallographer, a job she found fascinating.
She now spends her time writing, in a variety of genres. Science
Fiction, fantasy and fantasy romance are her favourites.
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