Behind ‘Where The Serpent Bled’

In Where the Serpent Bled, a century-old vampire who’s at the stage of considering an eternal death finds himself trapped in a blood curse with a virgin girl, who will die without him…

The initial idea for this book revolved around a trafficker and the new girl he abducted. The poor FMC, of course, ends up falling for him despite being treated badly. Whether it’s for survival or because he’s the only person who matters in her world...the lines blur. I was listening to The Weeknd’s “One of The Girls” a lot... and the idea of her becoming obsessed with being one of his also sounds tragically appealing to me (and deliciously spicy). I wanted to explore it, but a few hundred words later, I realized it was too dark for Amazon.

Making the trafficker a century-old vampire named Constantine was the breakthrough (and hey, he appeared in the first chapter of the book before Serpent, which would make this one a standalone prequel for Where the Lilies Bleed). In this book, Constantine runs a trafficking ring. He routinely sells innocent girls to cold-heartedly bloodsuckers like him, and our FMC, Lilian, is his karma come back to kick him in the ass.

Constantine is far from a good person, and when he decides to defile her in front of all his vampire friends, he accidentally makes her his one and only eternal lover (no, she doesn’t turn into a vamp), and there’s no undoing it (frankly, he wouldn’t want that). Constantine finds himself doing a lot of firsts in the hundred years he’s been alive.

And it turns out that what he thought was an accident isn’t what it seems. The truth is much darker.

Instead of pitch black non-con, this book evolved to include plenty of juicy tropes: fated mate, vampire x virgin, insta love, obsessive possessive MMC, blood exchange, and lactation kink (wink).

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