The Missing Heir
Somehow, we’re at the end of the year already. Since this is my last blog post of the year (so Merry Christmas and happy holidays!), I figured I’d give an update on my latest project: The Missing Heir. Even though there’s a pre-order up for book one, so you guys already know when it’ll come out 😅
InspirationI just got the first book, Heavens’ Captive back from my editor! I have more of my own edits for that book than I generally like to have after I’ve sent it her way but that’s bound to happen sometimes. And I could have gotten to those edits before I sent the book to her . . . but that would have meant delaying what I was working on with subsequent books in this trilogy, so I decided to wait.
As readers of the The Hidden Hotel know, the seer Luca, the hero of this next trilogy, is a touch out of things, which is because of his visions. And I’ve wanted to write a hero like this for years (one who struggles to tell the difference between his visions of the future and what’s actually happened). I had SO much fun with him. I also enjoyed him because he starts out the story in love with the heroine, thanks to his visions, where as Zavion falling for Dahlia in The Hidden Hotel was a slow process that he fought since he was predisposed to dislike her.
With The Missing Heir trilogy, the mixed blood controversy will still be part of the plot, though not near as much in the previous trilogy. There are those in the heroine’s clan unhappy with her human blood . . . but she’s also the leader of the most powerful of the celestial guardian clans, so it’s not like she’s weak. Not that she knows that yet, but Luca certainly does!
There’s a lot of other things I’m excited for with this upcoming trilogy, though one of the biggest things is that the heroine has both parents around, they’re both wonderful, and they’ll both be part of the story, which is kind of new territory for me. Dahlia, of course, is a semi-orphan, the heroine of my Genie Whisperer series comes from controlling and less than stellar parents, and many of my unpublished books follow the common trope of young heroines not really having their parents in their lives (either physically or emotionally) for some reason or another, so it was quite refreshing to write a heroine where her parents are not only great and still around but also a huge part of her life.
If I have that in a story again, it’ll probably be a long time before that happens, so I hope readers enjoy it!
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