Love… the grandest experiment of all.

As a young Alvian lab tech, Jaci knows her place in the orderly, emotionless society her race has established on the planet Earth. While preparing a batch of experimental skin patches, she is accidentally exposed to a gene-altering agent. In a matter of days, she’s assaulted with raw, primitive, forbidden emotions she has no clue how to handle. If her superiors find out, she’s a dead woman.

Her only hope is to seek help from the human test subjects held captive in pens below the city.

Before the aliens came, cousins Mike and Dave used their psychic abilities to their advantage in business dealings. Now they use them to stay alive, keeping a sharp telepathic eye out for ways to help themselves and others improve their lot…or escape. Their friendship with Jaci has always been more than simply captives and caretaker. Now that her DNA has changed, their shared resonance is the stuff of legend.

Inevitably, Jaci’s emotions expose her to deadly Alvian justice. Suddenly she’s in the race of her life, seeking the only safety she’s ever known…in the arms of her human Resonance Mates.

See, I’d planned to (how to say this without giving too much away?) have the main characters arrive somewhere and settle into the place. At the very last moment, I decided to have people there to meet them and it took the scene in a different direction entirely. When I got to the next scene, I realized what I’d impulsively done had messed up some important aspects of what I’d planned to do next and what would come in subsequent books in the series. I had a plan and I really should have stuck to it. *sigh*

Live and learn. I should have known better than to veer off course at the last moment without thinking it through completely, but most often when I get these creative wild hares, they turn out okay. This time, not so okay. However, I do have a backup plan. With a little tweaking, I just may be able to use the majority of those 5,000 words in the next book. We’ll see when I get to writing it, but I’ll keep it in mind to try once I get to that point.

   

HARA’S LEGACY - 2008 EPPIE Award Winner! - The first in a five book series set on a futuristic Earth where an alien race has decimated most of the planet and only special people with psychic abilities survive in the wild places. The O’Hara brothers will do anything to protect the empathic woman they grew up with. But in a post-apocalyptic world, can they adapt to share her love if it’s the only way to keep them all safe? It’s a serious game of cowboys and aliens when three psychically gifted brothers try to protect the one fragile, empathic woman who holds all their hearts against a menacing alien threat. BUY NOW from MBAM - BUY NOW from Amazon

I DREAM OF DRAGONS Vol. 1 - Wings of Change - One young woman could be the miracle that heals a dying dragon — and unites a family with her love. BUY NOW from MBAM - BUY NOW from Amazon ]]> http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/03/25/three-new-print-releases/feed/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/03/24/sons-of-amber-in-print-today/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/03/24/sons-of-amber-in-print-today/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:27:33 +0000 Bianca D'Arc Books Jit'Suku Chronicles New Releases http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/03/24/sons-of-amber-in-print-today/ The Sons of Amber compliation has just been released in print! This book contains the first two Sons of Amber stories - Ezekiel and Michael. Here’s the BUY LINK. And here’s a bit about the book:

When an alien virus decimates humanity, Dr. Amber Waithe creates a small group of men who are immune. These genetically engineered supermen are the Sons of Amber. Their mission: to repopulate the human worlds. Of course, nobody expects them to fall in love.

Ezekiel - Crash landing on a strange desert world, Ezekiel is rescued by an angel who nurses him back to health. The small community of humans could be the only uninfected colony in the galaxy and he must protect them at all costs. Likewise, he must protect Angela - his angel - the one woman he wants like no other in the universe.

I can’t tell you how honored and thrilled I am to recieve this award. Thank you to EPIC, the readers and the judges who picked Hara’s Legacy out of a fantastic field of great books. I’m stunned. And I love the idea that I now have EPPIES for my two main categories of writing, since The Ice Dragon won the EPPIE for Best Erotic Romance Fantasy/Paranormal last year. Being recognized for writing the stuff I love to write is a feeling like no other. But I’ll stop gushing now and take this opportunity to remind everyone about the book that just won the award…

Hara’s Legacy

eBook ISBN: 1-59998-482-2
Print ISBN: 1-59998-742-2
Length: Novel
eBook Publication Date: May 29, 2007
Print Publication Date: March 25, 2008
Cover art by Anne Cain

It’s a serious game of cowboys and aliens when three psychically gifted brothers try to protect the one fragile, empathic woman who holds all their hearts against a menacing alien threat.

First in the Resonance Mates series.

Montana rancher Caleb O’Hara’s precognitive abilities saved his family from an alien attack that annihilated almost everyone on Earth. Now the aliens have come to study the remnants of humanity. Caleb knows the only way to ensure the safety of his young wife, Janie, and his beloved brothers, Justin and Mick, is to keep the family together on their isolated ranch.

All three O’Hara brothers love Jane. They grew up next door to the young, empathic beauty and she stole all their hearts at one time or another, though she married Caleb. Caleb foresees the shocking truth of what they have to do in order to survive, and Caleb’s visions never lie.

They’ll have to come to terms with a new world, and an evolving relationship, all while finding a way to protect two newborn babies who are innocent pawns in the aliens’ deadly game. Somehow, this one talented family holds the key for humanity’s survival on this new, conquered world called Earth.

Buy Now in Print from Amazon - Buy Now in eBook from MBAM

Hara’s Legacy Splash

Sons of Amber Splash (doesn’t have buy links yet because the book isn’t out yet)

It took me a while to realize I needed something like this, so I’m passing along the idea here for other authors or web designers who might not have thought of it yet. If you’re doing web-based ads, I think it’s a pretty good idea to have them hit a target that’s a little less complicated than your regular website homepage - particularly if you’re advertising a specific book. Feel free to ask questions and let me know what you think!

In honor of that accomplishment here’s a little snippet from Davin’s Quest for your delectation…

Rick woke to comfort. A comfortable bed, soft linens and a soft, decidedly feminine touch on his face. If he were dreaming, he wanted to stay asleep, but daylight tugged at his eyelids until he opened them.

“Good morning.” Callie’s voice floated to him as she sat on his bedside, her hand touching his cheek gently. The look on her face nearly stilled his heart. No woman had ever looked at him in just that way.

“What time is it?” He had to stop thinking about dragging her down so he could kiss her lips the way he’d dreamed of doing since the first moment they met.

“A little after noon. I just came to check on you and see if you were up for some lunch.” At that moment his stomach rumbled and she laughed. “I’ll take that as a yes.” She stood from the bedside and picked up a tray from the dresser near the door.

Callie stopped a few feet away from the bed, the tray still in her hand and just watched him, her head tilted to the side, her eyes narrowed in concentration. Rick started to sweat under her scrutiny. She was so beautiful and she’d never looked at him quite that way before, concentrating on him, on his comfort.

“Something’s different.”

Rick sat up and rested back against a pile of pillows. “I don’t know what you mean.”

Callie placed the tray on the bedside table. She sat on the edge of the bed and stared at him as Rick tried to stay calm. He’d always been careful to school his thoughts around this woman.

She reached out to touch his face, but he shied away. Immediately he regretted the move when he saw hurt cross her face.

“You know I’m empathic.” He nodded, not liking where this conversation was heading but helpless to stop it. “Well, you’ve always been blank to me, Rick.” She spoke in a low voice, her hands cradled in her lap. “But you’re not anymore. I’m starting to pick up…things…from you.” She blushed and looked down at her hands.

Rick swore under his breath. “Ignore it, Callie. Just forget all about it.”

She looked up until her gaze met his. “What if I don’t want to forget it? What if I can’t?”

Anyway, this photo actually inspired the addition of Rick St. John - a main character in Davin’s Quest - though I’m not usually one of those writers who keeps photos of hunks around for inspiration. Honestly, I usually prefer to imagine my characters in a very nebulous sort of way. Attaching a famous person’s face to them kind of ruins it for me. Especially when said famous person turns out to be a jerk in real life.

But for whatever reason, every time I think of Rick, this photo comes to mind. I think it’s the grumpy look on his face, the definition of those muscles - like he’s lived a hard life (which my charater, Rick, definitely has) - and the devil-may-care attitude of appearing in public in a canary yellow towel. The whole thing just says, “I’m gonna do what I want and wear what I want. What’s it to you? Now get out of the way.”

So for those of you who are interested in such things, this is where the character Rick comes from in the second book of my Resonance Mates series. The first book (Hara’s Legacy) is due out in print any minute now, and Book 2 (Davin’s Quest) is now available in ebook and will be in print in late December/early January. ]]> http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/02/21/davins-quest-character-inspiration/feed/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/02/20/davins-quest-available-now/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/02/20/davins-quest-available-now/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:26:09 +0000 Bianca D'Arc Resonance Mates New Releases http://biancadarc.com/blog/2008/02/20/davins-quest-available-now/

Which man will Callie choose, the alien or the warrior? Or can she have both?

Resonance Mates Book 2

For each Alvian, there is one perfect match—a Resonance Mate whose soul blends in perfect harmony. Unlike the rest of his race, Davin has emotions and suffers for it. Without a mate, he is doomed to go mad. Searching for answers and understanding, he seeks out Callie O’Hara, a human woman with strong empathic gifts. Could this fragile human be his Resonance Mate?

Rick St. John is a tough-as-nails survivor of the Alvian occupation of Earth. He doesn’t believe in much, but when he sees Callie for the first time, he starts to believe in love at first sight.

The Governing Council is gunning for Davin, the upstart who dares to defy them. And they’ll kill anyone who gets in their way. Davin and Rick must come to terms with their feelings for Callie in order to keep her safe, while she has to find a way to save them both…with her love.

Warning: Warning, this title contains hot alien love, explicit sex, graphic language, and ménage a trois.

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