I want summer. Now. I have had it with winter, and we are barely halfway through February. Supposedly we are getting belted with ANOTHER winter storm early this week. Blech. Enough is enough. On the plus side, maybe I will get to the halfway mark for Moonstone Wish in the next few days. I won’t finish it before the Chicago conference in March, but I might be two-thirds done by then. Anyhow, here’s a bit about my main female character in Melusine’s Endgame, Natalie Forrester.
She’s a paralegal working for the Assistant District Attorney of Manhattan. She’s twenty-five at the beginning of Amber’s Lure, and while not truly antisocial, will not go out of her way to hang out with people she is not close friends with. Going out and drinking with colleagues is not something she normally finds enjoyable, though the one time she does, it is to her benefit. Natalie does not make friends easily. One has to prove that they are trustworthy before she will open up to them. She does have two people she considers close friends, and they are the closest thing she has to family.
Romantic life? Nonexistent. Natalie is a more than attractive young woman, though she will not take kindly to remarks about her appearance. She’s five foot six and small framed, with reddish-blonde hair that she normally keeps tied back in a braid-bun. She goes out of her way to make herself look severe and unapproachable, and for the most part, it works. She has her reasons for not wanting people close to her, though again, she will not open up as to those reasons unless she truly trusts someone.
Natalie has been on her own for years. She lost her parents to a drunk driver when she was eleven years old, and was placed in the care of her aunt and uncle. While her parents insisted on this placement with the best of intentions, it was to Natalie’s detriment. Those relatives did not welcome a child, and provided for Natalie’s physical needs, and not much else. They threw her out when she dropped out of high school, though that was only their excuse…they had been looking for reasons to not have to deal with a child anymore. It’s not that Natalie was a bad kid (quite the opposite). She simply put too much of a crimp in her aunt and uncle’s lifestyle.
Natalie is fiercely independent, and very little scares her. Fear is one of the few ways to get her to lash out physically, though this is a last resort for her…she knows she does not have the physical strength to win a fair fight.
Place a stun gun in her hand, however, and she’s more than a match for even a five-century old vampire.
Hilary