RED by Jordan Summers

Gina Santiago is a member of an elite tactical team in charge of protecting the world. She’s devoted her life to apprehending the most heinous criminals that prey on society—and now she’s after the worst one yet.

On her own, with no backup, the trail takes her to a dusty, tight-knit town on the fringes of society, where everyone’s a suspect. Even the sexy sheriff, Morgan Hunter, isn’t telling her everything. Gina knows he’s trouble, but she’s inexorably drawn to him.

The closer Gina comes to finding out the secret of this sleepy little town and its big bad sheriff; the closer she comes to catching the predator, the more scared she gets—because she’s beginning to realize that she has a secret too. A secret that will change Gina’s life… and make her the killer’s prey.

First off, I’d like to thank Fatin for having me here. 🙂

A lot of people ask me where I came up with the idea for RED. Most of my books have started with a single sentence, question or line that eventually snowball into full manuscripts. Sometimes I hear the characters saying the lines in my head. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s the truth. Sometimes the line itself plays in my mind until the rest of the story forms. That’s what happened with RED. One question kept rolling around and around in my head until I could no longer ignore it: What if Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf turned out to be the same person?

The question is provocative and certainly not something a lot of people would ask themselves while reading the fairytale. I’ve always loved Little Red Riding Hood, but hated how it ended. I didn’t like that the wolf was killed. It always seemed ‘wrong’ to me. It’s probably why I’ve been drawn to write about werewolves.  Don’t get me wrong, I like vampires, but there’s something about wolves that draws my attention like a lodestone.  That said, I should tell you that many creatures occupy my Dead World, including vampires.

The thing I decided when I first started to write RED was that all the creatures in my world would have a scientific basis for existence. What does that mean? It means my world isn’t magical. Vampires and werewolves aren’t creatures of myth. They are transgenic creations. (People who carry a foreign gene that has been inserted in their genome. The foreign gene is constructed using recombinant DNA.) These people volunteered to have their DNA manipulated in order to become super soldiers. RED takes place over a hundred years after the war has ended. The soldiers (Others), who were once heroes, are now in hiding because the organizations who created them want them destroyed. They don’t want proof of what they did during the war walking around.

The story follows Gina ‘RED’ Santiago as she investigates a murder. Murder is all but unheard of on the Dead World thanks to advanced DNA detection. In the course of the story, which loosely follows the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, Red stumbles upon the Others and finds her life forever transformed.

RED is a dark fantasy thriller with a little science fiction tossed in for good measure. It’s also the first book in a trilogy. The love story starts in RED, continues through SCARLET (June 09), and wraps up in CRIMSON (Nov.09). Although different than the average paranormal romance, the Dead World series will not disappoint romance readers in the end.

You can find excerpts and more information about the books at www.jordansummers.com

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