WeWriWa: Draft One and Done . . . RISE BY MOONLIGHT
Nothing like a working vacation on location to get you to that epilogue! Just got back from a week long love affair with New Orleans, getting reacquainted with its unique rhythms, its traditions, and especially, its food! Finally, RISE BY MOONLIGHT’s first draft is complete. At almost 100,000 words, it’s time to begin some serious editing . . . right after this week’s WeWriWa excerpt featuring a heroine strong enough to carry a 15-book series, NOLA detective, Charlotte Caissie. Nothing’s harder for a wounded warrior loner to accept than help (or the fact that she requires it!). Cee Cee’s developed from a bullet train force of one crusading for many to someone dependent upon others to protect those she loves—a situation that doesn’t rest easy on her broad shoulders.
How could you not want to save this city? I miss it already.
Charlotte Caissie’s determined drive for justice had begun with her father’s murder at their Sunday dinner table. Now, she walked his streets, determined to carry that torch. The arrest of Warren Brady had shattered that system they’d devoted their lives to serving. When the police commissioner placed greed above the law she loved, he threatened not only her cause but her new extended family, as well.
The tenuous existence of Max’s kind was already at risk. With Terriot refuges and threat from the North flooding the Quarter bringing division and danger, her passionate drive not to rely upon any resources or resolve beyond her own was no longer possible. Not when it came to the safety of those she loved.
Her partner, Alain Babineau had her back on the streets; Mary Kate Malone, now Sister Catherine, held her confidence as sacred as her God; and, Max Savoie encompassed her heart with a tenderness and passion she’d never allowed or given another. This trinity, these two friends and this lover, were her world now, but a part of her still denied that good could defeat all the evil she’d recognized around her. And that darkness still grew, relentless, cold and all consuming, becoming a threat to her unborn daughter.
Here I go, plunging into that first edit. Wish me luck!
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