Sunday, January 16, 2011

New Series! Lust for Purity.




This series was born from a question I once asked my mother. I asked her if demons could ever be redeemed. Could they change their minds and want to follow God? And if so would God grant it? She told me no, that they had no way to redeem themselves.

So then a blue haired chick with combat boots and a white trench coat came to me. She knocked on my creative door quite loudly. When I answered it she dragged in a many of her co-stars inside. When I asked her what she like to drink she said a Snow Cherries from France (vodka, creme, cherry syrup, powdered sugar on the rim and a cherry in the middle). Taken back, I knew her story was going to be wild. As I was trying to answer this demon question she also told her story to me. The two merged and thus I had a story.

There are four books in this series, starting with Seeking White Starling followed by Lust for Purity and then Serpent's Dove and lastly Dusk in Utopia. The story takes place in the past, present, but mostly the future. Seeking White Starling takes place nearly 800 years with the last scene taking place in the future.


The story is about Diana Helsing, a cursed earthbound angel that is doomed to have emotional connections to three different demons. These demons came to be in different ways. When a demon possessed a dead man he became the first vampire Buracula. When a demon possessed a willing woman who was seeking dark magic she became the first witch Therastine. And then lastly, a demon possessed an unwilling wolf and thus became the first werewolf Jabe. Diana's grandmother Dione was sent by God to rid these creatures from man kind. But the demon races multiplied and so God sent more angels to earth. After the birth of her son Van, Dione fell in love with Buracula during one of their battles.

When Dione first came to earth, a bunch of gypsy-like Druids took her in and taught her their language. She befriended the leader's daughter originally named Keaira and renames her Katherine (meaning pure) when she Christians the tribe. Seeing how she impacted the human's lives God gave Dione a second task. He said to her that he wanted to test his creation and so made Katherine the ultimate sacrifice. If a vampire were to suck her dry he would become completely human and able to choose to follow God. A witch has to perform a sacrificial ritual and a werewolf must be loved by Katherine to become human.

God gives the task to Dione to protect her from these demons. And thus Katherine becomes hunted by them. She does eventually fall in love for Jabe, but she never confirms it and therefore he doesnt get saved. she actually kills herself so that she didn't choose between her friend Dione and her lover Jabe.

The series starts off with a scene of how Dione, Baracula, Therastine, and Jabe die. It's a quick scene.

The next scene jumps to the mid 1600s with the birth and cursing of Diana. The first book then covers the next 600 years with the book split up by dates and locations rather than chapters. Don't worry the whole series is like that.

Lust for Purity takes place in like 2260 while WWIII is going on. WWIII is happening in the next two other books too, but is also ending by the end of Dusk in Utopia.  Lust for Purity is when they meet the new Katherine (Keaira's decedent) and thus takes the series to a new place. 

So that is the general overview of the series. I made the book cover for Serpent's Dove today. I'll show the first three covers. I have yet to make one for the last book.







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