The Story Behind Bloodlines

Bloodlines began with a feeling before it became a book.

It began with the idea of inheritance as something more dangerous than family resemblance or shared history. I kept coming back to the question of what it means to belong to a line that carries something old, hidden, and unfinished. Not just emotionally, but spiritually. Not just through memory, but through fear.

That is where the story’s energy came from.

At the center of Bloodlines is Avery Locke, and what interested me most about her was not power in any ordinary sense. It was sensitivity. Awareness. The ability to feel that something is wrong before the world around her is ready to say so. I wanted her story to be about what happens when a young life crosses into a family truth that has been buried, protected, and feared for generations.

The setting matters too. Place matters in all of my work. Atmosphere is never separate from story. A market, a doorway, a road, a house, a room—these are not just backdrops. They hold pressure. They hold memory. They shape what can happen and how it is felt. In Bloodlines, that pressure is tied to family, history, and the idea that some things wait.

I also wanted the book to feel personal before it felt large. Even though it belongs to a wider universe and a larger series, it had to work first as an intimate story of fear, family, and discovery. The mythology only matters if the people inside it feel real. The secret only matters if the cost of carrying it feels real.

That is why Bloodlines is where this series begins.

It opens the door to a larger world, but it starts with something older and more human: the fear of finding out that what has shaped your family has also been waiting for you.

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