The Sorcerer's Bride: A Peek Behind the Curtain

Secret scenes, and raw chapter samplings...

"Kintsugi, he croaked...

Then pointed at her with a grotesque hand that looked like crumbling clay and a face that was melted on one side while the other remained her promised husband.

What did it mean? Was it a spell?

She closed her robe around her and tightened the sash. With her head held high, she walked toward the snarling creature.

When we're young things can get twisted.

Especially for two young women who started as ugly ducklings and eventually became swans.

Michaela Blackstone and Claudia Webber.

Unfortunately it takes a while for our emotional and mental state to catch up to our new and improved selves.

Often we find ourselves still trapped by our insecurities and short comings.

This wound, like any other injury that makes us bleed is a beacon for predators.

Which was my inspiration for the male character.

Antoine Giovanni.

This vampire first uses his charms on my main character then realizing he found and easier victim, pursues her friend.

For the first time two friends have a wedge driven between them.

One catches on to the manipulation.

The other is a victim of love bombing, which will lead both down a dark path to a dark world where they need their friendship to survive.