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Heroes, Anti-Heroes and Guys Who Just Need Their Ass Kicked Part 2 of 5 - Sea Haven
Sea Haven
Drake Sisters Series and Sisters of the Heart Series
Sea Haven is my home away from home. It’s a fictional community made up of so many wonderful small towns I’ve been to in my life. So, when I started writing the Drake Sisters I knew this town would be a central part of the story and I asked myself, “What kind of people live in Sea Haven?”
What draws men and women to a town like this? The small community feel where people know each other, help each other and look out for one another appeals to a variety of people. But, when it came to my heroes I thought that, these men, came there to find peace they could not find elsewhere. To escape a troubled past. To sooth their troubled souls. Many of the heroes in the Drake Sisters series are just these sort of men. They are hardened by life, trained in the military, law men, men who enjoy peace and are willing to do anything it takes to keep their little part of the world safe.
As the Drake Sisters series wound down and the Sisters of the Heart stories began I found that I just couldn’t let go of those men and women from the previous books and we do get to see some of them in the new series. I think Sea Haven gets in your blood and you never want to leave.
Later on in the Drake Sisters series though we are introduced to the Prakenskii brothers, Russian assassins trained since they were boys. They, like the Drakes, have special powers. They are darker, harder, more violent men. But, regardless of the reasons they came to Sea Haven, these men find home here.
I wanted to get across that there’s a place and a person for you, no matter how broken you are. No matter your past, you can overcome it, be a good person and be welcomed into the heart of a community and the heart of a woman willing to accept and love you. As the Sisters of the Heart series begins to come to a close I wanted to bring the final Prakenskii brother into the fold in a way that would keep us in Sea Haven. With him, he will bring another set of characters who need a home, a community and family and are willing to fight to have it.
Fire Bound
In the end, we all long for family and love. For some, they must first see that it is real, be embraced by it, accepted. And when that kind of love is offered freely and fills the void that was once only darkness, a light begins to shine, like the beacon of a lighthouse, keeping you safe and bringing you home.
Drake Sisters Series and Sisters of the Heart Series
Sea Haven is my home away from home. It’s a fictional community made up of so many wonderful small towns I’ve been to in my life. So, when I started writing the Drake Sisters I knew this town would be a central part of the story and I asked myself, “What kind of people live in Sea Haven?”
What draws men and women to a town like this? The small community feel where people know each other, help each other and look out for one another appeals to a variety of people. But, when it came to my heroes I thought that, these men, came there to find peace they could not find elsewhere. To escape a troubled past. To sooth their troubled souls. Many of the heroes in the Drake Sisters series are just these sort of men. They are hardened by life, trained in the military, law men, men who enjoy peace and are willing to do anything it takes to keep their little part of the world safe.
As the Drake Sisters series wound down and the Sisters of the Heart stories began I found that I just couldn’t let go of those men and women from the previous books and we do get to see some of them in the new series. I think Sea Haven gets in your blood and you never want to leave.
Later on in the Drake Sisters series though we are introduced to the Prakenskii brothers, Russian assassins trained since they were boys. They, like the Drakes, have special powers. They are darker, harder, more violent men. But, regardless of the reasons they came to Sea Haven, these men find home here.
I wanted to get across that there’s a place and a person for you, no matter how broken you are. No matter your past, you can overcome it, be a good person and be welcomed into the heart of a community and the heart of a woman willing to accept and love you. As the Sisters of the Heart series begins to come to a close I wanted to bring the final Prakenskii brother into the fold in a way that would keep us in Sea Haven. With him, he will bring another set of characters who need a home, a community and family and are willing to fight to have it.
Fire Bound
In the end, we all long for family and love. For some, they must first see that it is real, be embraced by it, accepted. And when that kind of love is offered freely and fills the void that was once only darkness, a light begins to shine, like the beacon of a lighthouse, keeping you safe and bringing you home.
The Importance of Family, Community and Sisters of the Heart
Lissa, the heroine of Fire Bound, is special to me. She is as secretive and quiet as she is loyal and fierce. She exemplifies the element she is bound to; fire. You see fire, know it’s warmth and importance, but it’s easy to take it for granted and that’s when you get burned. Lissa has kept a secret from the women she calls her sisters because that secret is dangerous. She’s already lost her parents, she would do anything to keep her sisters of the heart protected, even from herself and her secret double-life.
Casimir is a man of secrets as well. Also orphaned, he has only his brothers as family. So when they ask him to watch over Lissa when she leaves for Italy he agrees. But, he is also bound to fire, his magic gifts as dangerous as Lissa’s. So when the two realize they need to work together things heat up, as you can imagine.
I love how the two are a perfect a compliment for each other. They both know the need for secrecy, double-lives, alias, disguises. They know how to kill and how to survive. Threaten what they love…who they love, and their magic becomes combustible.
Fire Bound
They are two puzzle pieces that fit perfectly together.
Casimir is a man of secrets as well. Also orphaned, he has only his brothers as family. So when they ask him to watch over Lissa when she leaves for Italy he agrees. But, he is also bound to fire, his magic gifts as dangerous as Lissa’s. So when the two realize they need to work together things heat up, as you can imagine.
I love how the two are a perfect a compliment for each other. They both know the need for secrecy, double-lives, alias, disguises. They know how to kill and how to survive. Threaten what they love…who they love, and their magic becomes combustible.
Fire Bound
They are two puzzle pieces that fit perfectly together.
