It is
with the greatest of pleasure that I welcome Historical Romance author, Raelle
Logan, on to the blog. Raelle is going to tell us about her inspirations behind
her latest book…
BLACKHEART
By
Raelle
Logan
No
memory of his assassin past, sentenced to death for a duel gone wicked,
Lochlanaire Blackheart is granted
freedom, commanded by King William to hunt Siren Rain, the illegitimate
daughter of ousted King James II. Her
existence threatens the British monarchy.
In capturing his prey, Lochlanaire must plunder the signet Siren
dons. That jewel is the talisman of King
James II, which proves Siren’s ancestry.
Lochlanaire, however, is unaware that, at the moment he casts sail,
Siren’s already been kidnapped by his pirate brother, Zore. Lochlanaire must stalk Zore and battles this
cutthroat, in a fateful twist, for the captive princess, spinning Siren into
his web of treachery and lies.
Afterward, they’re shipwrecked in a gale, entwined in a union of
inconvenience when Lochlanaire weds Siren under the witchery of gypsies and at
pistol point. After Lochlanaire
enlightens Siren of her true father’s identity, to spare her own life, she seduces
her captor, desperate to conceive his child.
She believes he cannot surrender her to die at King William’s hangman’s
noose if their blood unites.
Lochlanaire, alas, is trailed at every footfall by a ghoul slaughtering
the pirates aboard his ship. That ghoul
bears a dastardly secret. Siren must
unravel all the Blackheart brothers’ secluded evils, while conspiring to save
Lochlanaire, for he threads together a travesty by which to sacrifice himself
to the king who enslaves him, all while opposing the two seething brothers who
seek his demise for the tragedies reaped in Lochlanaire’s shattered past. If Lochlanaire fails to evade the death-curses
shadowing his every step, Siren will lose the breath-wrenching privateer who is
her assassin hunter, the possessor of her lusty soul, and her only love.
Author’s
Inspiration
In
truth, I’ve never thought of what inspires me.
I have always wanted to be a writer; it’s apparently the only thing I
really enjoy doing. When I first began
to write my romances, it never occurred to me that I would publish my
work. I mainly just wanted to put my
characters and their stories on paper just for myself and maybe family. Then I began to think, hey, maybe other
people might be interested in reading my stories. BLACKHEART took about a month to write, as
the character was screaming in my head to get onto paper. I hope people enjoy reading the book as much
as I enjoyed threading together the tale.
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About the author
I’ve
been writing stories since I was a very young child. Back then, my writing interests were mainly
in a Western genre, owing to my Dad being a HUGE Western movie fan. My mother worked at a local library and one
day she brought home several books she hoped would keep me occupied throughout
the summer months while I was out of school.
Several of those books were written by author Victoria Holt. Needless to say, I was hooked on romance. After I threw out the Western manuscript I
had written, I delved into the romance genre with hearty gusto, reading every
book I could find. In later years, after
marrying a racecar driver, a neighbor tossed an old laptop over the fence in
our backyard into my husband’s arms, as he wanted to help with my husband’s
racing career. I got curious about the
computer, sat down one day and starting writing on the notepad, only to
discover, to my absolute horror, that I couldn’t save my work. I bought a new computer and have been writing
since. After writing my first
manuscript, I realized I wanted to write a book about pirates that was more
true to the reality of their real lives than is usually portrayed in books and
film. Having only the limited knowledge
of what I had seen in paper and moves, I took a year off in order to do
historical research, learning about pirates and their ships, weapons, clothing
and, language. I even read the WEBSTER’S dictionary so I could use words for
the time period I write about. BLACKHEART
is my first published manuscript.
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