dante's world: SERIES CHARACTERS & love CONNECTIONS
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One of the things readers love is when characters from previous books make appearances in other books. Here is a breakdown of which characters are in relationships. Do you know which characters appear in which books?
dante's world: Connections and fun facts
LAYING CLAIM- Book 1
Fun Facts:
1. Seth first appeared as a side character in FRACTURED SOUL. Readers loved his character so much, that they wanted Seth to receive his own Happily Ever After!
2. Seth's boss, Marc and Alex, are the two main characters in the FRACTURED SERIES. They also make cameo appearances in the Rough Edges Series.
3. Mickey's father was the man who tried to assassinate the bad guy
PROTECTING HIS - Book 2
Fun Facts:
1. Dominic's character is one of the more closely based characters, leveraging on knowledge and experience in the financial crimes industry and understanding of the criminal underworld.
DEVOURING SIN - Book 3
Fun Facts:
1. Patrick's story was originally going to be the first book in this series and was going to be an MM Romance. However, readers demanded that Seth's story get written. So, Patrick's story was abandoned, and Seth's story became book 1. After writing about five pages of Seth's story, it suddenly became clear that this series was going to end up being an MM Dark Romanc
dante's world: Connections and fun facts
AVENGING DES - Book 4
Fun Facts:
1. The model on this cover was located during the search for Patrick. It was instantly clear that this was Cillian and had to be saved until book 4.
2. Paris is one of Matthew Dante's favorite countries to visit.
3. The Cruise scene was one of Dante's favorite scenes to write (you'll see why).
DEFENDING YOU- Book 5
Fun Facts:
1. This book was originally intended to be Book 6, but after writing the first draft of Brody's book, it was clear that readers needed to get to know Brody a bit more before diving into his own story. Book 5 gave readers an opportunity to see more of Brody allowing for greater interest into Brody's character.
2. Patrick and Oliver's characters were originally written
OBEYING ORDERS- Book 6
Fun Facts:
1. Brody's book has been rewritten several times as Brody's character was rather complex and difficult to pin down. Trying to understand the inner turmoil that Brody faced as well as the conflicting outside influences on his personality, was an interesting and fun challenge.
2. Brody was always one of those guys you were never really sure if you loved or hated. I th
dante's world: SERIES READING ORDER - recommended
ROUGH EDGES SERIES
- LAYING CLAIM
- PROTECTING HIS
- DEVOURING SIN
- AVENGING DES
- DEFENDING YOU
- OBEYING ORDERS
Recommended reading order
- The FRACTURED SERIES follows the dark lover story of Marc and Alex as they move from friends to lovers and evolve into darkness.
- The ROUGH EDGES SERIES can be read as standalones as each story focuses on a different couple, with each ending in a HEA. However, it is always recommended to read each book in the order that they were written for maximum enjoyment.
dante's world: SERIES READING ORDER - recommended
FRACTURED LOVE - book 1
Fun Facts:
1. The idea for this story came to Dante while driving along a country road on his way to pick up his brother. By the time he arrived, Dante had a rough outline of the story developed in his head, of which he began to excitedly describe to his brother... who looked at him like he was insane.