Shiloh Walker: Inspire me

Bred for destruction but longing for redemption, this second chance is all they have.

Faced with the choice of torment or redemption, Jonah accepts the bargain laid out by his guardian angel as he lies dying in the street alone. Change…or die. Not a hard choice, it seems. But then he meets Lily and has to wonder just what he’s agreed to by accepting this new life.

Even the angels call Lily unique—and she is. Born of a demon, but longing to be more, her one wish is granted—temporarily. But now her time is running out and she has an impossible task set before her. It doesn’t help that she can’t stop thinking of Jonah…or the very real demons that will come hunting her once they realize where she is.

With demons and angels tracking their every move, Jonah and Lily have a life to save before they can save themselves.

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My latest ebook, THE REDEEMING, comes out today. The book’s tagline pretty much sums up the story quite nicely:

Bred for destruction but longing for redemption, this second chance is all they have.

>I love second chance stories-stories about people who are all but broken, and in the case of this story’s hero and heroine, pretty much beyond all hope. The heroine is a demon-a succubus, to be exact. The hero is a witch who lived his life doing whatever it took to survive, and it took some pretty bad things. He’s lying in a gutter, dying, and he’s offered another chance.

I’m not entirely sure where the idea for the book came from. I wrote it a few years ago and it was previously published by another publisher. I’ve done some revising and expanding on it, and a LOT of cleaning up. I remember the direction I’d wanted with the book… but the idea itself? Nope. I think it was one of those ideas that was just there.

Some of my stories are like that-Whipped Cream & Handcuffs, Chains, Under Your Spell

Others, I can remember clear as crystal how the idea evolved. The first Hunters story, Hunters: Declan & Tori, I had been reading a vamp story where the heroine was constantly doing stupid things, knowing it was stupid, things that should have gotten her killed and she just whistled her way through. I wanted a book with a butt-kicking heroine who wasn’t so arrogant, who wasn’t so stubborn. And one morning I woke up and Tori was there, in my head.

Through the Veil was another one. I bruise-easy. Very easy. Bump me and I can bruise. One morning my husband and I were making the bed and he saw this bruise on my hip. He asked where it came from and I gave my normal answer-I dunno. He sighs, shakes his head and said, “People are going to think I beat you.” A few hours later, he comes up and tells me, “You need to write a book about a woman who keeps waking up with bruises and she doesn’t know how. Turns out she’s being sucked into another world in her sleep where she’s fighting a war.” And I go… hmmmmm

The book I just finished for Samhain, Candy Houses, that’s another one I can remember how the idea evolved. It started with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ended with a book of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers.

Somebody a few days ago asked me where my ideas came from, and the answer that just seems to be life. An idea will literally just come out of nowhere-I’m watching a movie, listening to the news, reading a book and something just catches me. When you’re a writer, everything is fair play.

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