Roy Rosiare, the pilot who served the Cardelle family, was caught, tried, and sentenced to fifteen years for assisting a fugitive and kidnapping a minor.
Justin and Clarisse Evans returned from their honeymoon on Monday morning. Both were shocked by Alex’s explosive reappearance and saddened to learn of Amy and Zack’s break-up. Clarisse has thrown herself into her articling position with no less than her usual scorching success. Justin has begun his first espionage job. He disappears with all the regular routine of a secret agent.
Charles Banks and Damien Gray staged Damien’s fake suicide the weekend after the eclipse. It took the pair a full six days to work up the courage to show Amy Damien’s note. Amy jumped at the chance to right her wrongs and swiftly gave them permission to post it.
Amy Evans and Zack Donnellson avoided each other obsessively in the weeks post break-up. Jessie and Charles staged an intervention in late October, but the former couple is still struggling to set aside their raw, painful feelings for the greater good of the group.
Max O’Neil, Damien Gray, and Chris Jackson have attached themselves to the inseparable cluster of Toronto-born freshmen. Despite their different majors, they support each other with group study sessions that double as junk food parties. Everyone brings homework, snacks, and tales of college life. Peter often finds himself included in these gatherings as Damien’s studio apartment is a prime location.
Kimberly Wolf and Peter Jenkins are pursuing their budding attraction, much to the annoyance of Kimmy’s roommate and ex-love-interest. Damien, also displeased by the couple, grumpily pointed out that Peter’s new girlfriend could arrest him at any given moment. Kimmy laughed when she heard this and pointed out that she had better things to do than arresting a Dark with unbeatable escape plans.
Ken Richards dated a series of girls in quick succession after breaking up with Jessie Davis. He contracted chlamydia no less than six months later. He took some time off school to rethink his life and spent the summer building houses in Ethiopia.
Amy Evans and Jessie Davis have embraced the college single life with jubilant partying gusto. Each has acquired an extensive queue of admirers. There is only one problem. Neither lineup contains the boy they love.
College and its freedoms have blinded even the most alert. With Alex dead and an angelic cop on their side, danger is little more than an ugly memory of a bad dream. Why worry about lunar eclipses and the unfortunate timing of a red moon when there are midterms to study for and people to kiss? But cosmic forces have only been strengthened, and there is no stopping the universe when it makes up its mind. Hiding in the shadows, lurking in the night, a sinister threat waits and watches over its would-be victims.
Author Note
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for reading Blood Moon’s Servant. This book was four years in the making and co-written by two authors a country and a half apart. Leah Kingsley is the pseudonym for Jenna Faris, a twenty-something Canadian from a rural small town, and Heidi Springstroh, a twenty-something Floridian from a slightly larger city. Both women share a love of books and a passion for contributing to the imaginative world of reading.
Both Heidi and Jenna have been legally blind since birth. Heidi is low vision, meaning she sometimes reads with the assistance of Zoom Text or large print. Jenna is totally blind and devours Braille and audiobooks alike. Being blind has awarded them an innate understanding of the need for accessible content and instilled in them a thirst for creating characters from different backgrounds and walks of life.
The co-authors play to their personal strengths. Heidi handles the more visual components, such as formatting and cover design, while Jenna focuses on the written word. Each is convinced the other has the harder of the two jobs and fully supports one another when their roles inevitably overlap.
Jenna Faris is the dreamer, the writer, and the editor. She wrote the rough draft of Blood Moon’s Servant in three exhilarating months the summer of 2017. Writing was a welcome break from advanced biochemistry, a course in her undergrad that nearly derailed her degree. Her summer concluded with a B- and a hurriedly, but no less happily, written sequel to the first book in the “Curse of the Blood Moon” series, Blood Moon’s Fury.
Jenna spent the next two years editing her first novel and completing her undergrad at the University of British Columbia. She relaxed into writing when she had time to spare from her social life and classes. Much of her Christmas break in 2017 was spent writing the next installment in the “Curse of the Blood Moon” series, Blood Moon’s Victim.
Jenna graduated with a degree in nutrition in May 2019 and spent that summer hanging out with friends, waitressing at a dining in the dark restaurant, and writing on her balcony in the sunshine. She had resolved to leave the editing of Blood Moon’s Servant alone until after Blood Moon’s Fury had been launched. She got her wish in November 2019 when Blood Moon’s Fury, the novel she had written at age fifteen, was published on Amazon and Audible. She completed the rough draft of her third novel at around the same time book one was published.
The second that had been done, Jenna set about editing and polishing the manuscript for Blood Moon’s Servant. She spent hours at the computer every day, delightedly battling carpel tunnel for the sake of the book characters who now felt like friends.
If you hadn’t noticed already, Jenna enjoys tackling multiple projects at once. She wrote a large portion of her fourth novel, Soul of a Survivor, while editing her second book. After eighteen more months of hard work, Blood Moon’s Servant was almost ready to see the light of day. But not until Heidi had her turn at polishing it.
2017 was a difficult year for Heidi. She was unemployed and struggling, and the last thing on her mind was writing a book. Luckily for this novel, things picked up in 2018 when she managed to find work and decided to give college another try. Like Jenna, the majority of her writing energy went toward the editing, proofreading, formatting, cover designing, and marketing of book one. Blood Moon’s Servant was somewhat neglected until Blood Moon’s Fury was able to stand on its own.
Heidi proofread this novel and meticulously formatted the paperback and Kindle manuscripts to match Amazon’s requirements. She also corresponded with a brilliant cover designer to create an exciting and engaging first image. When her work schedule and college classes were turned upside down by the Coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, Heidi vowed to use her downtime productively. She enrolled in a marketing course to learn the best ways to bring her books to the hands of wonderful readers, like you.
Jenna and Heidi dreamed of being published for so long that it felt surreal when it actually happened. If you are an author, an aspiring novelist, or simply have an idea for a story, we encourage you to follow your dreams and bring them to life. If we can do it, you can too. Feel free to drop us a link to your Author Central or unpublished snippets of writing. We would be delighted to browse your work!
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