What It’s Like to Write Into the Series

Writing a book in Dragonblade’s Lyon’s Den series is amazing, an honor, a privilege, a joy, and with more than a hundred stories already inside it is a little like being invited to a grand house where everyone already knows the furniture.

The doors have been opened before.

The chandeliers have already glittered.

The card tables have seen fortunes lost, hearts exposed, reputations threatened, and Mrs. Bessie Dove-Lyon — the Black Widow of Whitehall — doing exactly what she does best: knowing more than anyone wishes she did.

So the question becomes: how do you enter a house like that without rearranging what readers love?

You do not knock down the walls.

You find the hidden passage.

That, for me, was the real beginning of The Lyon’s Sweet Temptation.

Let me tell you more…