into the dark

Now that I've let go of KISS OF CRIMSON--or should I say, now that KOC has let go of me?--I am joyfully immersing myself in the New Book. It doesn't have a title yet, but it's #3 in the Midnight Breed series and features the Order's most tormented member, Tegan. To avoid a spoiler, I can't say who his heroine is yet, but while this book is a lot about Tegan, it's very much her book as well.

She's been haunting my imagination ever since she walked onto the page because she's so full of pain and fear. But she's courageous, too, something she's only beginning to realize for herself. Unfortunately, her coping methods for dealing with her own pain are destroying her. I'm not totally sure how I'm going to make two damaged, hurting characters come together and win a happy future, but I know the journey there is going to be dark and passionate!

Since I've begun plotting Number Three, this Evanescence video has been getting a lot of play on my iPod. My brand new *video* iPod, which the hubby bought me for xmas to make up for his leaving my mini on the plane when we came back from Mexico! Don't you just love make-up pressies? :)



This song is fitting for a lot of reasons, including the video's stark winter setting, which is the basic backdrop for the new book. A city blanketed in pale white snow, bare branches, little color . . . slumbering life buried under so much frozen landscape. I think it makes a nice mirror for my characters' emotional states. God, I'm so into this book right now--I love the euphoria of beginning a new novel*!

* Yes, I know that middle-of-the-book depression and misery lurk right around the corner, but today it's all good!

Posted by Lara Adrian on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 8:18 AM | Permalink