Sherily asked Sherrilyn Kenyon:

Hi Sherrilyn, I love all your series: Dark Hunters, League, CON, B.A.D, Belador, & all your shorts. I was wondering why don't you or anyone count Fantasy Lover (Juliens' story) as #1 in the Dark Hunter series? It's almost as if that story doesn't exist and it isn't being counted. I love the story and it's a great lead into the Dark Hunter world. The 5 book set I purchased starts with Night Pleasure the 2nd book.

Sherrilyn Kenyon It's explained on the website and numerous other places. It's not counted because there are no Dark-Hunters in it. It's that simple. I can't tell you how many wrote to ask, "Where's a Dark-Hunter? Why is this book 1 when there's not a single DH or any of the main DH characters mentioned in it?" Since we (my staff and I) were receiving so many emails by those who were confused by it being on the list, we decided to remove it. After all, it is a spin-off/related book. To a "cold" reader who has no knowledge of DH picking it up without ANY prior knowledge of the world, it doesn't make sense and the readers were right. That's why we have it listed as a related book, as we do many others and not as book 1. We just didn't want to confuse those numerous new readers who were confused by us having it there. So while Julian is a related book and those are related characters and Kyrian appears briefly in the book, and though we had the web site up and running many, many years before the book was out, we redid the list years ago to make new readers happy and not confuse them. Technically, book 1 is the aptly named The Beginning or as it was subtitled Kynigostaia, which was originally published in 1980's and referred to in Julian's book as an homage to the previously pubbed DH origination story, but that really confuses people as it's out of print and can't be bought.

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