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.
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I love small towns, and Sea Haven, though I know its not real, sound nice. I loved Death Valley--and no, I did not go in the heat of the summer-- and want to go back. Might be fun to visit Ft Bragg, and the Glass Beach. I'd love to visit --and live in-- Lynsay Sands's fictional town of Port Henry, Ontario Canada, and get to know the Argeneau family, there, better.
I was rather amused to see Ilya compared to a tiger in Turbulent Sea, as I used the name Ilya for one of my Weretiger character for one of the uncles of my human main character, Tori...in my private writing that I'm doing for fun.
Even though I know that the 7 Prakenskii brothers are very powerful with their magic, and ...killing skills, they're still "only" humans and mortals. I believe any of the Carpathian adults...any maybe Carpathian teen and tweens...could defeat them in a fight.
Now that we have the Shadow Riders, I wonder who would win in a fight...the 7 Prakenskii brothers or the 5 Ferraro brothers? At any rate I...know a female Carpathian teen or tween could defeat either the Prakenskii or the Ferraro brothers in a fight.
I think that Sisters of the Heart has become my favorite of the two Sea Haven series, but I could easily love that fictional town, and its people.
Too very bad they aren't real.