Finding Stories a Home

I’ve mentioned this before, but when I decided I wanted to create a world that I could write multiple stories in, it was a wonderful opportunity to look through my urban fantasy story ideas folder and pick out all the stories that I felt would fit into this new world. One of those stories ideas was what morphed into The Missing Heir trilogy.    

Inspiration

My basic ideas for the story remained unchanged. My early notes included a supernatural race split into groups led by powerful women, a somewhat unhinged group who’d been missing a leader for several years because no one around had the power to take over, a seer who predicted who the next leader would be, and this leader being taken by a different group before ending up with the one she really belonged with. And even that this group ended up allied with a powerful group with ice themed powers.

But plenty of things had to be fleshed out, like what race these people were, why they were led by women, and the history for how the main clan ended up as it did. I ended up creating a brand new race for this trilogy, which was a lot of fun, and I love the plot that developed because of my creation of the celestial guardians.  

The biggest change from my original notes is that I had the heroine coming from foster care due to her parents being killed in a car accident when she was younger. But that would have been repetitive right after Dahlia’s story, with her also coming from foster care, which I’m quite grateful for! Arabella’s dynamic with her family adds so much to The Missing Heir trilogy, and it’s a much richer story for their presence. Also, I maybe enjoyed the whole ‘they don’t know their true history because they come from foster care’ trope too much when I was younger 😅

We have plenty more characters with missing parents coming up in the world of the enchanted races, but I promise that none of them are in foster care! And most of them are already aware of the supernatural world after The Missing Heir. 

I know that I will never be able to write books for all the story ideas I have tucked away in folders, but I’m grateful that my decision to create the world of the enchanted races made it so this story got to be told! 

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