Playing With Fire

So by now you should know PLAYING WITH FIRE (click to read first chap and buy links) is available in digital format at all online retailers.  It is a part of my Of Angels & Demons series, but fits in the overall Beautiful Creatures world.  And it's not only set in Paris but also Venice.  This whole story started when I read about the 'green man' living beneath Paris.
Seems a few centuries a go, a cave-in on one of the Parisian streets went down to many layers below the city.  (Cave-ins occur often, even nowadays, because a literal labyrinth of tunnels and passageways snake beneath the city.)  Anyway, during one particular cave-in, a few people also fell into the hole, and though some were not rescued, one was, and claimed to have seen the 'green man' below.  Some sort of demonic figure or, who knows?  It became an oft-whispered about legend in the city for a while.
That got me to thinking.  Who was this green man?  Why was he green?  Where did he come from?  Well, apparently, he must have come from waaaaayyyyy down there.  Like maybe even Beneath?  And did he perhaps work for Himself?  You see how my writer's brain works.  It just goes there.
That provided the background and beginnings for Cinder, hero of Playing With Fire.  I had attempted the story with an actual cave-in and the heroine finding him that way, but that didn't work for me, so instead, the 'green man' is the hero's history, and the whole story takes place very much above ground.  Though, this wouldn't be the first time I was inspired by the tunnels beneath Paris.  If you've read Seducing The Vampire, you'll know why.