This Week's Special Guest - Rebecca Royce

This week's special guest is Rebecca Royce who stops by to talk about Westervelt, the world she created for her sexy paranormal romance series.

As a teenager, Rebecca Royce would hide in her room to read her favorite romance novels when she was supposed to be doing her homework. She hopes, these days, that her parents think it was well worth it.

Rebecca is the mother of three adorable boys and is fortunate to be married to her best friend. They live in northern New Jersey and try not to freeze too badly during the winter months.

She's in love with science fiction, fantasy, and the pararnormal and tries to use all of these elements in her writing. She's been told she's a little bloodthirsty so she hopes that when you read her work you'll enjoy the action packed ride that always ends in romance. Rebecca loves to write series because she loves to see characters develop over time and it always makes her happy to see her favorite characters make guest appearances in other books.

In Rebecca Royce's world anything is possible, anything can happen, and you should suspect that it will.

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Welcome to Westervelt…

It’s funny how my shifter stories came to me. I was in one of our local parks. The unique thing about this particular place is that in addition to being a park that contains amusements, it is also connected to a zoo. I had my sons with me and as we rode the little train that takes you around the back of the animal cages, I found myself completely fascinated by watching the wolves.

I think it helped that it was Halloween and the zoo was decorated for the occasion. It leant a certain dark element to the otherwise benign surroundings. And as I sat in that train holding my son and looking at the wolves, Tristan Kane was born. I asked myself who he was and the answer came easily. He was the third son of a royal Wolf pack trapped in his wolf form waiting for his mate.

BOOM.

The world building began and Her Wolf: The Westervelt Wolves Book 1, which was released August 3rd 2009 from Liquid Silver Books, came into existence. Once I had met Tristan, everything else was instantly clear. Tristan’s mate Ashlee appeared to me on the drive home from the zoo. I drove past a house in one of the local neighborhoods and it felt like Ashlee lived there. It felt like I had known her all my life, like she was one of the girls I grew up with. She had a sister: Summer. A-ha, I thought, but who is Summer’s mate? Cullen…the pack enforcer, pivotal to their survival and yet always alone. Summer’s Wolf: The Westervelt Wolves Book 2.

Tristan wasn’t alone he had a whole wolf pack behind him including his five brothers. Michael, Gabriel, Tristan, Theo, Azriel, and Rex. They each had their story. By the time I’d driven home I knew each of them. Michael was wounded…he hadn’t been able to lead the pack. He wasn’t Alpha. Gabriel was the Warrior, always responsible, alone in a crowd. Theo was injured, physically, almost beyond recognition. Could he ever be brought back? Azriel was different, less wolf-esque than his brothers, more cerebral. Rex was misunderstood, the youngest, looking for his place.

And yet they were all shifters. Always at one with their wolves and in constant battle with them for dominance. The women they were paired with would have to be special, strong, capable to handle the constant battle for the survival the Westervelt men face on a daily basis.

Because Kendrick won’t let them go. What would it mean, I asked myself, to be betrayed by your Alpha? What would it mean to be nearly destroyed by your father? To lose your mother to violence, to watch your parents betray everything about your lineage? How would you pick up the pieces?


Since I wrote Her Wolf, three other books have been published in Westervelt. Summer’s Wolf, Wolf Reborn (Theo’s story) and Wolf’s Valentine, which branches out in the pack and introduces us to Malcolm, a member of Westervelt who is not a Kane. I’m pleased to say that I’ve just signed a contract for Wolf’s Magic, which is Azriel’s story and I’ll be thrilled when I can bring that to you.

There will be four books left in the Westervelt series. Michael, Gabriel, Rex, and….

She’s coming. She’s been mentioned in every book and I haven’t forgotten her because as anyone who reads Shifter books can tell you, the stories are always about the women….

It will be hard to eventually say goodbye to the pack that has lived for so long in my mind. I don’t think there will ever be a time when I drive down the street, watching the leaves change that I won’t wonder in the corner of my mind what is happening on Westervelt. I don’t think there will ever be a time that I won’t see a wolf cage and remember the third son of Westervelt, lost, alone and waiting for her….

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