Lincoln

Foreword Dear Reader, In prepping for this novel, I researched similar titles. Basically, I read an ass-ton of books that were rewritten from the love interest’s perspective. In the volumes I reviewed, most authors took their original work and kept it, beat for beat, but built out new internal dialogue. Which isn’t easy to do. Trust me, I tried. So I need to be straight-up here. There’s no way I could write that beat for beat book. Don’t get me wrong: in some places, that approach worked fine. But in the interests of full disclosure, here are five ways that LINCOLN is different from other rewritten from his point of view books that you may know and love. You are hereby warned about what you’re getting into, and I won’t feel offended if you decide to click the return button at this point. Difference Number One. If you follow my work, then you know I love a good twist. In ANGELBOUND you may have thought that Lincoln was an anti-demonic douchebag. ***Spoiler Alert*** Lincoln is a good guy. Seriously. That was true when I wrote the original ANGELBOUND, which is why Lincoln fell for his girl before they officially met, Walker shared that Lincoln was obsessed with Myla, the anti-Acca treaty was a theme, and so on. I’m super happy to have this chance to set the record straight. That said, if you really liked him as a anti-hero? Oops. I really tried to make him that, but Lincoln can be stubborn as f**k. As Camilla says in the book, he’s a “nobleman. Noble plus a man.” Boom. Difference Number Two. A lot of the drama in ANGELBOUND was about Myla’s mother, friends and school. That’s not Lincoln’s world and it didn’t feel authentic to have him worrying about Cissy’s jealousy or whatever. Our guy’s got his own s**t to deal with. In this book, I focus on scenes and themes where Lincoln and Myla were together. The rest is new stuff (more on that later.) Difference Number Three. Even when a Lincoln-Myla scene was spelled out in ANGELBOUND—and I keep it in LINCOLN—I didn’t recount every last beat unless I could add something really significant. In other words, many things that Myla noticed in detail (like the nuances of negotiating with the Oligarchy) just aren’t big deals in Lincoln’s experience. For instance, treaties are his world. He’d be more concerned about how Myla was handling things versus anything else. Difference Number Four. There’s a new story about Myla which only takes place in Lincoln’s point of view. He’s more than just a handsome face, damn it! Our guy gets an adventure of his own. Difference Number Five. In this book, I really wanted to give y’all an inside look at Lincoln’s daily life. In writing ANGELBOUND, I had to build out Lincoln’s world, such as his friendship with Walker, the anti-Acca treaty, seeing Myla at the lake fighting doxy demons and so on. That gave ANGELBOUND’s world texture and logic, but I couldn’t include it directly on the page. Now this is Lincoln’s chance to shine. Huzzah! SIDE NOTE: This book ended up long. As you may know, I tend to write books out of sequence and I never know which ones will be huge or short. I used to beat up on myself about it, but I’ve gotten to a place where I’m just happy that I can create things people want to read. As Myla would say, meh. With that, I’ll stop with the caveats and let you get to the book itself! I hope you enjoy it. Best, Christina