Till Mercy
Till Mercy is the third installment in my Paranormal Security Council (PSC) series with Total-E-Bound. The series overall focuses on the Council, which governs all Paranormal beings, and the traitor working to bring the Council down. Till Mercy is about Professor Nathan Valte. Once on the Council’s hit list, Nathan’s life is spared, but instead of being grateful, Nathan sets out to find the leopards who’d killed his wife and daughter. He’s on a suicide mission, and finds hope to live and love again in the arms of the last person he’d expect.
This is book three in the Paranormal Security series, so what can you tell us about the first two?
All books in the series features members of the Council’s Death Squad, an elite group of agents tasked with dealing with the worst of the worst in the Para community. Book one, Till Abandon introduces us to Voltaire. She’s also known as the Death-Bringer, the most deadly of all Para beings. We follow Voltaire as she finally goes to her mate, a wolf shifter she’d been avoiding for years. Voltaire plays a more prominent role in books three onward. Till Surrender, book two, is GLBT and features Takayo ‘Saint’ St. John, another agent in the Death Squad. Saint infiltrates Nathan Valte’s inner circle on a mission to eliminate the professor as the Council considers Nathan a threat, but when Saint finds his mate, Nathan’s brother, he’ll have to rethink a whole lot of things.
Your mother was a book reader, so what did she used to read you when you were little?
My mother was all about romance. I cut my teeth on romance novels so I guess that’s the reason I’m writing them.
You daughter is a big reader, so was this a natural progression or did you encourage her to?
It was a natural progression. I didn’t push her in any direction regarding books, I simply made sure they were available in the house and that she had a library card as soon as was humanly possible. She reads three or four grades above where she’s at in school and that’s just the proudest thing for me.
You grew up in the Caribbean, so why did you decide to move to Brooklyn?
I originally moved from my homeland of Grenada to Canada, to help a family member who needed assistance with her toddler daughter. A year or so after I’d move to Canada, the family member then got a job in New York and we moved. The transition wasn’t hard since I’ve got a lot of extended family in Brooklyn. I’ve been here ever since.
When did you first know that you wanted to write after all of your reading?
I was always a writer, doing essays and short stories throughout my school years. I decided to do it seriously, for publication, when I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. I’d dream about story ideas, day and night. I had to get it out.
Who are your favourite reads now?
I have a list of favourite authors I always read, no matter what. Cameron Dane and Tyler Robbins are at the top of that list.
What is your writing process?
The process is as follows: I get a cup of coffee, I turn on my music (I have a playlist titled ‘writing’) and I open the doc. Music and coffee equals writing. I don’t plot or plan. I simply open up the doc, sip my drug of choice, dance along to the music and the words come to me.
What is next for you?
I’m hard at work on Till Betrayal, book four in the PSC series. It’s been a hard one to pin down because I’m tackling things I haven’t before, new territory I have yet to settle into.