FAQs for the Immortals After Dark Series
Taken directly from reader emails:
- Q. Do the books in the series have to be read in order?
- Q. What is planned in the Immortals After Dark Series in 2008?
- Q. How many books will there be in the series?
- Q. Why are all these events with the different factions of the Lore happening now?
- Do the books in the series have to be read in order?
- No, they are all stand-alone. But if you want to read in order, the series installments are
- 1. "The Warlord Wants Forever" a novella in PLAYING EASY TO GET Feb 2006
- 2. A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER April 2006
- 3. NO REST FOR THE WICKED Halloween 2006
- 4. WICKED DEEDS ON A WINTER'S NIGHT Halloween 2007
- 5. DARK NEEDS AT NIGHT'S EDGE May 2008
- 6. DARK DESIRES AFTER DUSK June 2008
- What is planned in the Immortals After Dark Series in 2008?
- I'll have two full-length releases: DARK NEEDS AT NIGHT'S EDGE in May and DARK DESIRES AFTER DUSK in June.
- How many books will there be in the series?
- After 2008, there will be at least two more full-length novels as well as at least one novella. I have a dozen plotted out, so I'm ready for more if you are!
- Why are all these events with the different factions of the Lore happening now?
- The reason is because the Accession (found in the
Lore glossary) brings these factions together every five hundred years and is occurring right now. In Hunger, it's described as:
"Bringing prosperity and power to the victors, the Accession wasn't an Armageddon type of war--it
wasn't as if the strongest factions of the Lore met on neutral turf after an invitation to
'rumble.' About a decade into it, events began to come into play, as if fate was seeding future deadly conflicts, involving all the players at a startling rate. Like windmill vanes on a rusted spoke, it began creaking, creeping to life, only to gain momentum and soar with speed every five hundred years."
Wroth and Myst never met before because Wroth and his brothers weren't turned or even born that long ago. The catalyst that brings Myst and Wroth together is a vampire battle (and these big battles usually occur around the Accession) and because Myst and her sisters decided to spy on Ivo when they sense he's up to something--which he was in order to try to win the Accession.
These events will continue to build on each other, sparking even more events:
- Murdoch Wroth will meet his Valkyrie heroine because he follows Nikolai to New Orleans.
- With Lucia and Garreth: Garreth had only, over the last couple of decades, begun to live in New Orleans, the city where she lives, so those two met briefly but were brought together more because of Emma and Lachlain.
- Kristoff, the new vampire king is guilt-stricken over Furie's fate at the bottom of the ocean, but he's so busy fighting the Horde that his hands are tied to do anything. Events from A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER make it possible for Kristoff to begin searching relentlessly for her. So Furie will rise in time with the Accession.
- And don't forget that Regin's Berserker hero reincarnates in time with the Accession, so he will be returning now.