Whispers in my brain...

My books are having a bit of a fight, right now...the ones I want to write. I was thinking of reworking Blood Angel into an erotic horror story for NaNoWriMo, next month, but Carli's Kills is pushing hard to take my attention. It desperately wants to be an erotic tale, with Carli being the kind of woman you just cannot say no to...and I'm kind of thinking I won't...

The inspiration for Carli was Lucy Lawless, who takes crap off nobody. Carli's out to kill the men who raped her daughter and drove her to suicide, but some of her reasoning is seriously flawed. She's feeling guilty because she joined the army, grew to be a deadly sniper in Afghanistan and pretty much abandoned the girl to be cared for by her grandmother. So she's also trying to purge her guilt for not being there when her daughter needed someone.

One of the guys involved with the gang that raped the girl is Zeke, who works the bar of a cantina owned by the biker gang's boss, Dax. Zeke is an ex-Marine who was hit by an IED in Iraq, losing a limb. He was inspired by Alex Minsky, who had that happen in Afghanistan. Alex's tattoos cover the scars left behind by shrapnel from the bomb. Zeke wasn't part of the rape, but the gang is made up of his friends so he did did nothing about it. Now he feels guilty.

It's Zeke Carli pushes into bed, and they get hot and heavy in glorious detail...and decide to get the hell away from everybody. Granted, she killed a couple of his friends, but he doesn't know that...not yet...but Dax is suspicious...

It might be fun, because Zeke's called Hot Tatts by a nearby college crowd due to being so damned gorgeous. And Carli's not above a little molestation, if need be.

I'm feeling good about this because I only have just over 100 pages left to go over with APoS. But it's starting to get pretty dark, so CK might be a good antidote to that.