Behind the Scenes – Truth Seeker

In celebration of my Dream Weavers & Truth Seekers books going wide (i.e., being offered on retailers other than Amazon) this month, I’ll be doing a series of posts on them. Today, I’ll be talking about Truth Seeker, the novella that kicks off the main series.

An immortal on a mission. A man trapped in a labyrinth. Can she control the maze before their world crumbles?

Maggie has grown weary of outliving everything she knows and loves. Numb to her job as a supernatural detective, she vows her next mission will be her last. But when the case alerts her to an enchanted series of tunnels, saving the mortal trapped in its mystical network may be the least of her troubles.

Philippe was ready for a new line of work when a magical coffee bean whisked him halfway across all of creation. Desperate to stay alive in a world the roadie doesn’t understand, laying eyes on his beautiful savior Maggie gives him extra motivation to survive. If only he can avoid doing something stupid that destroys all of humanity…

With a reckless mortal in tow, Maggie’s unsure she can prevent the dark-roasted portals from unleashing a hellishly destructive evil.

Can the roadie and the immortal face down the builders of the passages in time to save the world?

I wrote the first version of this story when I was on internship. In fact, the book I started just after this one? The Mountain’s Shadow, which is still my most popular one.

Truth Seeker is divided into two parts. In Part One, the two main characters Maggie and Philippe bounce around the Eastern U.S. trying to escape the builders of the metaphysical tunnels that connect the locations of a large and popular coffee shop chain. No, I don’t mention which one.

In the second part, they’ve landed in Decatur, Georgia, a town just outside Atlanta, which is where I happen to live. It’s a fun, quirky place to live with some interesting contradictions. The school system attracts a lot of young families, but all the good bars and restaurants bring out everyone’s inner drinker. Okay, maybe those two are related.

Maggie’s Decatur condo is the setting for many of the scenes in the book. I modeled it off The Artisan, which is a condo building in the heart of Decatur. Here’s what it looks like from the outside:

And here’s the alley where Maggie battles vampires and were-bats and meets another recurring character, Charlie:

I’ll have more pictures from Decatur next week as I get into Tangled Dreams.

If you’d like to grab a copy of Truth Seeker, you can get it from most online retailers. Click here, and you should be taken to your preferred one.

Cheers!