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The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Four

Time is a precious commodity.

Unfortunately, it’s a commodity you don’t have much of these days.

Keeping up with the exhausting training for your new career while balancing your deepening romance on top of juggling some kind of personal life doesn’t leave much time to relax!

But it wouldn’t be a Wayhaven story you’ve come to know without something new to add to that ever-growing pile…

Something stirs beneath the town of Wayhaven.

Something old.

Something powerful.

Something with a very keen interest in you.

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Delve into the world of Wayhaven once more, where a new enemy is not only unleashed upon the town but unleashes its advances upon you—to your vampire lover’s chagrin.

Or if your heart has yet to find a partner…perhaps you'll succumb to the villain’s romantic attempts?

Super quick one today as I am getting close to finishing the writing for this chapter like I hoped!!

I will be working on it tomorrow too, to make sure it’s completed.

Which means next week, I can start on the editing! Then after, you know what that means…it’ll be onto the endings!! (I do have some hefty epilogues after that, but I’m ready to celebrate getting to the endings, hehe! :D)

I did postpone the next chunk of testing chapters for the testers this week so I could focus on the chapter, so I’ll be getting those up together and sent off to them next week as well.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! We’ll be offline as usual, so I’ll update you all again next week <3

Yes, M choose their own name. They were offered to know their original name to use, but wanted a whole new fresh start.

Hope that helps!

Bobby isn't a great fan of A or M, lol! I think there's an instinctual fear there even if they don't know why!

But F aggravates them too. That dismissive way F has with Bobby, not rising to their taunts and having a whole slew of better ones in response really grates against Bobby—which is why Bobby and F interactions are oh-so fun to write, hehe! :D

Yeah, I have a couple of these in there, but I try to be super sparing with them.

I'm not a fan of if there's a choice then it not really having an impact, even if it's just a change in dialogue or something!

But they were necessary in this one, especially considering the type of villain Li-Sar is and how they work...

It's usually the reaction of human agents, not humans out in the public.

Human agents usually have amazement when meeting most supernaturals, but with vampire stories and myths being so common in the human world, they experience the most fear when meeting vampires.

And A can pick up on it, even if the agent tries to hide it (vampiric senses and all, lol).

Even with as stoic as A is, it has had an effect after all the centuries they've experienced those initial reactions!

Not that they've ever considered it might be their icy lack of greeting that also might be contribiuting to that initial wariness from people...lol! :D

Oh, my extreme need to talk about every unit is so intense, I tell you, lol! :D

I don't want to spoil too much, but I will say Unit Charlie are a team made up of shapeshifters (including a centicore, which I've been wanting to write for sooo long, lol!)

I won't answer this ask because it comes up directly during Book Four, so you can find out while being immersed in the moment, hehe! ;D

N and A love triangle was the original romance back when this was going to be a novel series, which is why it's still in the series.

It was very interesting turning F and M into love interests from the characters they used to be, hehe! :D

It got a little hot this week in the UK…and also in Wayhaven! :D

The random heatwave we had certainly helped write a particular scene, that’s for sure! I was going to leave that scene in this chapter until last but the weather, and my headspace, was so in the moment for it that I started to tackle it!

It’s a real doozy as it has differing BFF scenes at the start and then some super important choices later. But I was really in it, and it felt good to have such a complicated scene just flow, especially considering we were all melting in the heat, lol!

I also managed to come up with a solution for something the editor pulled out a couple of chapters ago. There was a part where the coding wasn’t really firing correctly, but I wasn’t sure how to smooth it out. But it just came to me one evening!

Sometimes it’s good to put a problem in the back of your mind and let it rest there—the solution does sometimes just come out of nowhere, hehe :D

Today, I’m focusing on getting June’s calendar page finished for Patreon (Tina and Verda’s turn!), then it’s back to this chapter—which I’m seriously determined to get the writing finished for next week. I'll also be getting the next set of chapters ready for the testers next week! This new process of testing is going waaaay better. Much less pressure on testers and a lot more time for me to really dig into what needs doing from their feedback!

Ohhhh! Don't! I LOVE this angst! :D

Ok...hmmm...

A would be crushed, but also like 'well, obviously MC doesn't love me', and try to keep it all inside while working on another way to wake MC, seeing it as proof they shouldn't be together.

N...oh my word...this would be their fantasy moment. A fairytale romance moment except...it's not their fairytale as MC doesn't wake up. N would be confused, doubting everything really.

F wouldn't believe it wasn't because it wasn't true love but because there's something wrong with the curse is why it didn't work, lol!

M doesn't believe in fairytale stuff, so if it didn't work they would already be finding another way to make it happen—no matter what it took.

I have an ex and one of my best friends are very tall (6'4"+), lol. And particularly with my friend, he has a very commanding presence but he is the sweetest, kindest man you'll ever meet. So considerate and generous. I love the juxtaposition (wow, I think that's the first time I've ever got to write that word in a proper usage, lol!) of a physically commanding person who ends up being a super teddy bear!

But I really try hard not to put real people stuff into my characters, lol! I think that's partly why they end up being so much larger than life and OTT, 'cause they don't have that real-person grounding, lol! (But that's how I really enjoy writing characters anyway)

I certainly don't know anyone like them in real life, which is good as I definitely want them to feel fictional! Having that separation from reality makes it easier to enjoy the heavy, not-exactly-always-healthy romances, hehe! :D

I love all the units, which is why I end up introducing too many, lol! :D

Unit Victor are in Book Four and will likely feature in future books because I can't help myself, hehe!

Most units are made up of the same type of supernatural, or similar ability supernaturals, just so they can specialise and be sent in for certain mission.

But there are a few teams made up of a mix of superatural types. And it's not unusual, if needed, for the Agency to bring together Tactical Agents (agents who usually work solo) to form up a temporary team for special missions, and they are nearly always a mix.

Rebecca is kind of frosty with everyone, lol! But Sung was close to Rook, and Rebecca has never been forthcoming about Rook's death, so it's a bit of a wall to their interactions!

Obviously, Sung was told the cover story for Rook's death, which everyone believed, but Sung knew Rook and just can't believe it's true (even if he would never even guess the truth!). So he's always suspected something, but Rebecca is a fortress and would never let anything slip, hehe!

Hnnnggg. I'm so excited to find out more how the villain romance will go.

I love Li-Sar so much more than I should, lol!

Li-Sar's romance will feel like a full romance in Book Four. I didn't want it to feel like side content or something I added on a whim. If your MC does finally commit to the romance, then it's the same as with the vampires, and you're committed to it for the rest of the series.

Though Li-Sar is a villain and villain romances don't tend to end happily for either party...

It's a soul-mate bond as it is with the vampires, just...much quicker in its progression, hehe! :D

I really hope people enjoy it!

Well, the MC isn't really leading them on in the love triangle, which is why F isn't so upset.

F has empathic abilities, so can really feel that they're all in love and really struggling and suffering under the complicated situation!

F is more annoyed that they all won't just be open about it! :D

But that won't be as much of an issue soon...

They live for soooo long, I can't believe some memories wouldn't fade. But really impactful ones definitely would last forever, that's for sure!

How good their memory is depends on the individual though, like humans!

Hope that helps!