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Froggy on June 29th, 2012 at 6:00 AM

What if you weren’t who you thought you were? What if your whole life changed in an instant and you were released to a new identity?

What if you were forced to kill the one you love? What if everything you knew wasn’t real, and you awaken to a new world?

What if love could take you to unknown places?

How beautiful is death really?

Marcus Marble has disappeared from Ellie’s life, and she needs answers to questions and he’s the only one who can answer them.

How is her sister back from the dead, and why is Ellie still alive?

When Ellie realizes Marcus isn’t coming back, she is forced to move on with her life the best way she can, in hopes of finding the answers herself, but when people at school begin to be viciously murdered, and Giles reveals to her a life changing secret, she decides to investigate the possible truth of it. What she discovers is more than she thought she would.

The only time Ellie feels normal is when she’s around Walter, the new guy at school. And normal is how she wants to feel, now that Marcus is gone from her life.

But Walter may not be all that he seems, either, and she just might spiral in to an even more dark world, she never thought possible.

And when it occurs to her that Marcus has made the decision to pass on through to the afterlife, during the Risorgimento, she races against time to stop him, while knowing she has feelings for Walter, too.

Will she make it in time to stop Marcus from passing through, and if she does, what will she tell Walter?

Her heart will have to make the final decision.

But will the choice be worth dying for?

Tell us about your writing process – where do you write, any rituals do you have and how you motivate yourself?

If I’m really pumped I can write about 10,000 words in one sitting. If I’m procrastinating, I might get one pretty sentence. I write at my desk and above it hangs inspirational photographs, the cover design to my upcoming book releases, and my light up spider web. I also have meditation/Muse rocks on my desk. An ice blue one and a midnight blue one. One for day time writing and one for nightly inspired pieces.

I used to sit in a dark corner all sad and depressed that I wasn’t writing, but that didn’t yield any results. Now, Writing is like a lifeline. It’s something I must do in order to survive. I think I will keep it this way.

What type of research do you have to do to write your books?

Since I am currently writing about immortal beings, such as vampires and zombies, I want to be somewhat original. I’m not sure how original one can be with these concepts but when gearing up for a book, the research I do is I take out a stack of paper and I write down every single thing that has been used in these paranormal books and then I toss it in the trash and try to reinvent it or give it a new angle, which is challenging.

Vampires and Zombies have been written about too many times to even count, but I am hoping I can rebirth these ideas. I am really excited for Frankie’s Monster as I attempt to take on the Zombie genre. We will see how all of this turns out.

All else, is purely imagination.

Rae Hachton [pronounced H-ton] is the nom de plume of author Desirae Hennington. She is the Indie Author of the Gothic Romance series Pretty in Black. She is twenty-three years old and lives with her Muse and her Ghost. When she is not composing new novels, she is working on her cinematography studies, and devouring YA books. Her favorite band is The Raveonettes, and she is a major fan of Edgar Allan Poe and Ravens and Crows. Although she is writing Gothic Fiction at the moment, her favorite genre of all time is Contemporary YA. Favorite contemporary book: tie between Forever by Judy Blume and the Summer I turned Pretty series by Jenny Han. Favorite author: David Levithan. If Rae Hachton wasn’t writing, she’d give it one last shot at being kewl, and probably start a band.