Like most of my completed
manuscripts, Half-Breed was initially written before 2008 under a different
title and with a completely different plan for its existence. Originally it was
planned as one of a collection of three, and then, when the third book was
published, they would be offered possibly as a boxed set, but though the world
and the history of that world are the same, the location, people, and story are
utterly different. The third book is still in the planning for this world, but
I’ve learned quite a bit since publishing that first book, and keeping these
books as a collection has become less of a consideration.
Half-Breed explores something of
genetic engineering. Operating on the idea that our government was trying to
create the perfect soldier by combining human and wolf DNA. Their experiments
didn’t work because their young soldiers, while physically everything they
could hope for, didn’t survive much beyond puberty. The other half of their
experiment, those that turned out to be more wolf than human, were discarded as
an expected byproduct and kept only for their DNA value. It wasn’t until the
world fell apart and the entire complex abandoned, that it was discovered that
the two, the hybrid humans and the hybrid byproduct, needed to be together for
either of them to operate at their optimum.
With these children’s escape along
with their wulfen companions, a new race and a new society was created. Having
no social training or exposure outside of the lab, they had nothing but their
own instincts to draw upon. But then they came across a little girl, and
because she was the daughter of the man who had given his life to see that they
were released from their cages, they would do what they could to keep her safe.
Her chances were no better than theirs, but it was better than her sitting in
the forest alone. Because of her, their life was far less animalistic than it
could have been.
Many generations later, a human
girl was taken in by the Yellowstone Clan, and like all clan women, she was
accorded the right to pick her husband and rule her household. However, she
never felt like she belonged, so one day, equipped with all she’d learned, she
made it back to her people, only by now she was pregnant, and being a woman
alone, if she was to avoid the collar, she needed to do something that would
feed her and her baby, and she needed to avoid the slavers. One day, with a
child who was starting to resemble his father more than her, her luck ran out,
and thus begins this book.
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