Changing the World: Hypernaturals 9

by C.J. Stevens

Peter Delong, the owner of a series of food trucks is killed. His wife Bianca is arrested for murder. Don Sagan calls Morgan for help on the case. Adrian and Morgan decide it is time to let Don in on the poly side of their life with Helen and Jessica, if not the Vampire 'first family' reasons for it.The case is against Don's clients is lousy and the arresting officer is well known on the force as a problem. As Morgan and Adrian do the interviews the arresting officer should have done, they find that while it was a murder, there is no obvious reason why. No motive. Whoever did it did not care whom they killed.As the Vampire detectives dig into the case, Adrian asks Angel for permission to reveal two massive secrets to his daughter Nakoma. One secret being what he is, and the second being what he did to protect her (Bad Choices).The digging in the case ultimately leads to the motive, a secret the government did not know it had and absolutely wants to keep, and Adrian slowly dying as even a Vampire can only take so much damage before it is fatal. Morgan can't let that happen, and chooses to die with him rather than lose him, leaving Jessica and Helen facing losing two of their spouses at once.Includes the short story 'Vampires from Tulsa', Denise has never been a fan of killing male Vampires that do not pass probation. After meeting the Vampires from Tulsa, she takes a stand on it.

433 pages, Paperback

Published December 7, 2020

About the author

CJ, not C.J.

In 2000, there was a house rule for a while, and every Thursday even, CJ was locked away from the kids and cats and wrote 'Lonely Dancer'. Then did nothing with it. Novel complete, back to life. Cats and kids do not understand writer isolation one tiny bit.

In 2010 the idea came to create Vampires that could exist. Not that were likely to exist, but that at least followed the rules of natures and physics. Reading many Genre romances to calibrate what those stories were about and building the rules to the Hypernatural world, 'Naked Came the Vampire' was written, followed by' Siren Song', 'Conclave', and 'Purity' in rapid succession. The first drafts were put away and another story about a superhero was written along the same lines: trying to come up with a way that a superhero could violate all the laws of physics, as they do. Not counting Batman. Mostly.

Then IT called with a five year, 70 hour a week project and all writing ceased.

That project over led to dusting off the Hypernaturals and getting them out there. Because what Science Fiction geek doesn't like a good Vampire Romance?

That led to pulling out Lonely Dancer, which went out the door after editing, and garnered the first five star review. Encouraged, next came 'The Law of Unintended Consequences' set a few months after the events of 'Lonely Dancer'

I am a Straight Ally and that also influences the topics in the worlds of CJ