Blood Angel

I got restless ... sort of like going through withdrawal from writing ... so I dug into a section of Blood Angel that I'd written about a year ago. Set in 1870-72 It has Léonidès finding another Blood Angel who could be a companion to him, a handsome young Prussian soldier named Franz, and he lets his dick do the thinking.

The way Blood Angels work, when they are turned from human to vampire they lose all of the lies they tell themselves about themselves. Their true nature comes to the fore. Gabrielle, Léon's sister, learned this the hard way when she was in Moscow during Napoleon's march on Russia. She met a young man named Dmitriy, knew he was of the BA lineage, took him to bed and then turned him to be her mate.

Only Dmitry was lying to himself. Forcing himself to be with women because he really preferred men. So once he was turned, any interest in Gabrielle vanished...except for her money. But she's stuck with him. He and Léon get long well, and she could let her brother have him, but she's filled with anger and more than a little jealousy at how easily Léon is working his way through the world. 

She also believes, not without reason, that Léonidès is the favorite of the ruling caste of vampires, the Oyim. So she's mainly being contrary just to punish both men. They still get together, now and then, but Dmitriy cannot leave her unless she allows it.

Still, knowing how this happened Léon still becomes obsessed with Franz and turns him before really understanding him. And finds the truth of Franz is he's something of a monster. His family is aristocracy and he now sees no limits to what he can do. He's smart enough to wreak havoc with Léon's preference that he and his crew only feed on those deserving of death, and knows not to go so far that the Oyim will step in to stop him. 

So Léon goes looking for his sister to offer a trade, since Franz is very female oriented and the only way he can have the guy in his bed is by near rape. He travels to London, has some fun with Dmitry and learns Gabrielle is en route to Korea to find, seduce and turn a young American Marine. So there he goes to track her down. It's world travel as done in the 1870s style, slow yet romantic. With lots of brutality along the way.

I'm thinking I may just go ahead and put this out, next month. It would be a year after the first volume was released, and that will always be book one. This one, I think I'll subtitle The Prussian. I'll consider it some more, tomorrow. It's only about 80% complete ... but could be done.