


At first, he couldn’t tell her too much about the series, but he eventually caved and told her it was about vampires that have infiltrated the Catholic Church disguised as priests.Ĭantrell found that concept “too cool to resist” and they collaborated on the trilogy, as well as two short-story collections called Blood Brothers and City of Screams.Įven though the characters go out with a bang in BLOOD INFERNAL, the authors are sad that they won’t be writing about their adventures in a fourth novel. Rollins conceived the idea for The Order of the Sanguines and drafted a rough outline when he approached Cantrell, whom he met several years ago at the Maui Writers Conference. We also wanted to land the characters, those who survive anyway, in places where the readers can imagine how their lives might unfold.”Īdded Rollins: “While we mostly knew where things were headed with this story-straight to hell, in this case-it was as much an emotional journey for me, as it was for the characters.” “The characters had changed throughout their ordeals, and we wanted to be true to those changes.

“We had an outline in place from the beginning of the series, but things had shifted around somewhat during the writing of the books, and we had to be careful to make sure that we were wrapping things up properly,” Cantrell said. To protect the world, Erin must walk through the gates of Hell and battle Lucifer himself. Erin discovers that the only hope for victory lies in an impossible act, which will not only destroy her, but everyone and everything she loves. Lucifer walks the Earth, and it will take the light of all three protagonists to banish him again to eternal darkness. As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, Erin must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Jesus Christ himself and lost for centuries. In BLOOD INFERNAL, a supernatural mystery-or as Cantrell prefers to call it, a “gothic thriller”-set on the eve of the Apocalypse, archaeologist Erin Granger, Army Sgt. Barely a week later, BLOOD INFERNAL-which she co-wrote with James Rollins, and serves as the finale in The Order of the Sanguines series-debuts. On February 5th, The Tesla Legacy debuts. The new year is shaping up to be a productive and prolific one for novelist Rebecca Cantrell.
