Author Monthly Post – Anne Barwell – A Shared World

Boggslake, Ohio, might look like a normal city on the surface, but an unseen war is being fought away from the eyes of most of the population.

From their stronghold, Boggs’s Castle, an eclectic team of vampires, werewolves, and other supernaturals fight to keep humanity safe from the things that go bump in the night. More than a team, these men grow into a family, and they’ll need to rely on each other’s strength, because their true enemy is deadlier than they could’ve ever imagined.

Elizabeth Noble and I co-wrote the paranormal/urban fantasy series The Sleepless City. I wrote books 1 and 3, and she wrote 2 and 4. The series has finished but we didn’t want to say good-bye to the characters, so now we’re each writing books in a shared world.

Endosymbiont, book 3 in Elizabeth’s spinoff series The Vampire Guard releases next month, and I’m aiming for a July release for Double Exposure, book 1 of my New Zealand set Pōneke Shadows series.

My current WIP, Postscript, is also set in the same region as Pōneke Shadows, and it’s fun having characters from other books popping in to cameo. As Postscript is a dual timeline story and vampires and werewolves live long lives, it’s an opportunity to get a glimpse of characters earlier in their lives too.

I’m loving how all the series and characters are feeding into each other. One of the themes of The Sleepless City is found family, and it doesn’t matter where these men live, they’re going to keep in touch. That also brings with it some crossover elements between series as it’s not just the good guys who share this universe, but their enemies too.

This month’s sale book is Shades of Sepia, book 1 of The Sleepless City so it’s a great opportunity to start reading from the beginning…

Ebook sale!

Read Ben and Simon’s origin story before their new book releases later this year.

Shades of Sepia, the first book of The Sleepless City series I co-wrote with Elizabeth Noble is available on Amazon, in Paperback, and in KU.

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To be soulmates they first have to survive.

A serial killer stalks the streets of Boggslake, Ohio. The victims are always found in pairs, one human and one vampire.

Simon Hawthorne has been a vampire for nearly a hundred years, and he has never seen anything like it. Neither have the other supernaturals he works with to keep the streets safe for both their kind and the humans.

One meeting with Simon finds Ben Leyton falling for a man he knows is keeping secrets, but he can’t ignore the growing attraction between them. A recent arrival in Boggslake, Ben finds it very different from his native New Zealand, but something about Simon makes Ben feel as though he’s found a new home.

After a close friend falls victim to the killer, Simon is torn between revealing his true nature to Ben, and walking away to avoid the reaction he fears. But with the body count rising and the murders becoming more frequent, either, or both of them, could be the killer’s next target.

Author’s note: This story was originally released by another publisher. This edition has been revised and re-edited with the end result being a better, stronger story.

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