Lydia Dare Guest Blog, Author of The Taming of the Wolf

What is next for Lydia Dare, you ask?


Well, over the last year, we have introduced you to our werewolves masquerading as Regency era noblemen. All right, all right – technically they are both of those things. First there was pack alpha Simon Westfield, the Duke of Blackmoor, whose story is told in our debut book, A Certain Wolfish Charm. Next there was his youngest brother Benjamin, the hero of Tall, Dark and Wolfish. Followed by the pair’s middle brother and silver-tongued rogue William in The Wolf Next Door. And finally, out this month, is our reformed villain, lone-werewolf Dashiel Thorpe, the Earl of Brimsworth, in The Taming of the Wolf.

That’s a lot of wolves, right?

Well, if you like vampyres (that’s right, we meant to spell it with a “y”) then you are in for a treat next year. We have expanded our paranormal Regency realm to include those seductive, undead gentlemen as they seemed a natural fit in our world. Not quite sure what that says about us, but there you are.

First up is James Maitland, Baron Kettering in It Happened One Bite, due out in March 2011. James is an Elizabethan era vampyre whose previous two decades could have gone a little better – not that he remembers them.

Then Matthew Halkett, the Earl of Blodswell, the hero of In the Heat of the Bite, in stores June 2011, finally gets his story. We say “finally” because the always-noble Matthew has been around a while – well, ever since the Third Crusade, anyway. For more than six hundred years this knight in shining armor has walked in two worlds – that of the living and that of the undead, not really belonging to either.

And finally Never Been Bit will be out in September 2011. We would tell you tons of interesting details about this particular hero, but we’d rather not. Don’t get us wrong – he is wonderful and we adore him AND we’re certain you will too; but telling you now who he is could be a spoiler for another book and we don’t want to ruin anyone’s fun. So, suffice it to say that the sexy hero of Never Been Bit is one you will fall in love with, if you haven’t already.

So that is what is next for Lydia Dare. And after that….? We think we can spot a trio of wolves on the horizon for 2012. We’ll just have to wait and see!

What’s your favorite paranormal creature to read about?