By
Kimberly Quinton
I
was asked recently if I was planning to write any more stories set in the same
world as Hero Worship, my superhero
romance. I enjoyed writing that story very much and it was the only one I’ve
written that just seemed to flow right onto the page. So yeah, I’ve been
thinking and dreaming about that world for a while!
Am
I kicking myself for killing off all the Heroes except for Cole? Definitely.
Doesn’t mean there couldn’t be an exception… But, when I started thinking along
those lines, I had to pull out my notes on the backstory. Many writers have
them—pages and pages of information about the world, the couple, their life
before meeting each other, and in Hero
Worship’s case, just what made him a superhero and why. Very little of this
actually went into the finished manuscript. I thought I’d share a little with
you and perhaps give me a reason to revisit the world I loved writing about.
What
you know:
H.E.R.O.
stands for Human Enhanced Rogue Operative, a special forces unit utilized to
facilitate world alliance government security protocols.
What
you don’t know:
The
Heroes were the product of many years of secret government experiments to
create genetically enhanced humans. When the experiments were exposed to the
public, the resulting scandal shut the operation down. The children that had
been created were taken to a secret location and raised as brothers (Indeed,
some of them were twins) and trained to be Heroes. They, the dozen of them,
grew up to be the world’s security force.
I created names for them all even though they were never
going to be on the page. The original twelve Heroes: Aristos, Biton, Cole,
Eliud, Endymion, Galen, Hector, Illias, Jairus, Kairos, Lux, and Lachlan.
Who
knows? Maybe someone survived the attack or maybe, since genetic manipulation
created them in the first place, there is another secret group waiting for
their chance to be Heroes?
An Old Threat Returns….
After twenty years confinement on
an island for crimes against humanity, the last thing disgraced H.E.R.O. Cole wants
to hear is the world needs him. But the government’s sexy envoy peaks his
interest and his honor.
Temptation….
Enhanced human and the
government’s top negotiator, Caroline Sparks’ only mission is to bring in the
last H.E.R.O. at any cost. When he asks for two months with her on his island
when the mission is over, she can’t refuse even if it means exposing a secret
he might kill her over.
Battle to save the world….
With disaster looming at every
turn, Cole must choose between vengeance and duty. Can Caroline embrace her
latent power and save her hero or will saving the world cost them both
everything?
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