The Kiera Hudson Prequels 2
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Authors: Tim O'Rourke
The Kiera Hudson Prequels
By
Tim O’Rourke
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Copyright 2014 by Tim O’Rourke
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More books by Tim O’Rourke
Kiera Hudson Series One
Vampire Shift (Kiera Hudson Series 1) Book 1
Vampire Wake (Kiera Hudson Series 1) Book 2
Vampire Hunt (Kiera Hudson Series 1) Book 3
Vampire Breed (Kiera Hudson Series 1) Book 4
Wolf House (Kiera Hudson Series 1) Book 4.5
Vampire Hollows (Kiera Hudson Series 1) Book 5
Kiera Hudson Series Two
Dead Flesh (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 1
Dead Night (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 1.5
Dead Angels (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 2
Dead Statues (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 3
Dead Seth (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 4
Dead Wolf (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 5
Dead Water (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 6
Dead Push (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 7
Dead Lost (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 8
Dead End (Kiera Hudson Series 2) Book 9 Coming Soon!
Kiera Hudson Series Three
Lethal Infected (Kiera Hudson Series Three) Book 1 Coming 2014!
The Jack Seth Novellas
Hollow Pit (Book One)
Seeking Cara (Book Two) Coming 2014!
Black Hill Farm (Books 1 & 2)
Black Hill Farm (Book 1)
Black Hill Farm: Andy’s Diary (Book 2)
A Return to Black Hill Farm (Book 3) Coming 2014!
Sydney Hart Novels
Witch (A Sydney Hart Novel) Book 1
Yellow (A Sydney Hart Novel) Book 2
Raven (A Sydney Hart Novel) Book 3 Coming 2014!
The Doorways Trilogy
Doorways (Doorways Trilogy Book 1)
The League of Doorways (Doorways Trilogy Book 2)
The Queen of Doorways (Doorways Trilogy Book 3) Coming 2014!
Moon Trilogy
Moonlight (Moon Trilogy) Book 1
Moonbeam (Moon Trilogy) Book 2
Moonshine (Moon Trilogy) Book 3 Coming 2014!
Samantha Carter – Vampire Seeker Series
Vampire Seeker (Samantha Carter Series) Book 1
Vampire Flappers (Samantha Carter Novella) Publishes 2
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The Vampire Watchmen (Samantha Carter) Book 2 Publishes 4
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September 2014!
Unscathed
Written by Tim O’Rourke & C.J. Pinard
Flashes
Flashes (Part One: Charley) Publishes 4
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April 2014
Flashes (Part Two: Tom) Publishes 1
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May 2014
Flashes (Part Three: Kerry) Publishes 5
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June 2014
Flashes Paperback (with exclusive Kiera Hudson Prequel Mystery) Publishes 5
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June 2014
You can contact Tim O’Rourke at
www.kierahudson.com or by email at [email protected]
Authors Note
The Mystery of Melinda Took
The Mystery of Derren Splitfoot
The Mystery of Kiera Hudson & Tom Henson
Author’s Note
Welcome to the second Kiera Hudson prequel book. Here are three more mysteries. The first deals with betrayal, the second revenge and the third the greatest mystery of all - love.
I wanted to explore Kiera's background a little more in these three stories. The first book (The Kiera Hudson Prequels Book One) examined how Kiera began to develop her skills - to see what others miss. These stories, although all mysteries Kiera has to solve, I have taken the opportunity to look at her personal and inner most feelings. All of the characters we meet in later Kiera Hudson books all have a past and by that I mean previous lost loves. Luke lost in love, as did Potter and Murphy. But what about Kiera? Did she have a first love - someone she had deep feelings for and an emotional attachment to - before she reached the Ragged Cove?
Just as Kiera had to learn how to use her special gift of seeing wouldn't she also have to learn a few lessons in love too? I believe love is what makes and defines us. So I thought I would take the opportunity in these three stories to explore a side of Kiera's past that previously we knew nothing about. Just as Kiera is learning about herself we are learning more about her too. As a writer that's what makes writing about Kiera so much fun.
Of all my characters Kiera Hudson is the one who seems to have taken on a life of her own. Just as I hope she leaps from off the page as you read her adventures, she too jumps off the page for me as I write them. And I think too that Kiera's story has become more than just an adventure - it has become a life.
Without doubt Kiera Hudson is the most popular character with the people who follow my books. I know others have their own personal favourites but on the whole Kiera wins the popularity contest hands down. Why is this? I often wonder. Why is it when I think I can't take her character any further another story - another mystery for her to solve - creeps into my mind? Perhaps it's because just like you, I'm keen to know what the future has in store for her. When and where will her adventure finally end? But I guess just like our own lives the excitement is in the not knowing - we take each chapter of our lives one page at a time just like Kiera does. Perhaps that is the connection we have with her?
Take care and keep turning those pages!
Tim x
The Mystery of Melinda Took
Kiera
I knew the man had murdered his wife, Melinda Took. But I just couldn’t prove it and that drove me half-crazy.
Tom had followed me in his gleaming new car as I drove my beat up old Mini along the coastal roads toward the village of Ripper Falls. How he afforded such a car on his police probationer wages, I didn’t know. He’d told me that his father was a partner in his own law firm, so perhaps Tom’s parents were helping out while he studied to be a police officer. I had no family to help support me through police training college. My father’s grave lay way behind in the grounds of the Sacred Heart Church. I couldn’t shake off the nagging feeling I had that perhaps Tom and I should have called the local police and told them what we had discovered about Father Rochford and what he was planning to do there. But our sergeant, Phillips, had warned Tom and me to keep apart over the Halloween vacation. In his eyes, we were trouble when together. Sergeant Phillips had threatened to kick us out of police training college if so much as a text message passed between us during our autumn break. Tom had broken that rule within a few hours of the sergeant’s threat being made when he had sent me the first text. My phone had been switched off, but when I turned it on, I found several missed texts from Tom. Even though I knew Phillips could end both of our careers before they’d even started, I was glad Tom had texted me. If he hadn’t, Tom would never have discovered I was being held captive by the creepy priest, Father Rochford. Tom had saved me – or had he? Hadn’t I seen another figure in the darkness of those secret passageways hidden between the walls of the priest’s house? Wasn’t it that figure that had saved me? But I couldn’t be sure. The priest had been suffocating me and I had been losing consciousness fast, so perhaps the figure I thought I had seen with the limp had just been a figment of my fading imagination. Perhaps it had been Tom who had scared the priest away after all. Whatever the reason Father Rochford had fled, I believed Tom was right when he said the priest wouldn’t ever come back. Father Rochford knew I was a police officer and would certainly fear that my colleagues and I would now be hunting him down. He would go into hiding. Perhaps when I had passed out of training school and didn’t have Sergeant Phillips watching my every move, I could go in search of Father Rochford myself and bring him to justice. I couldn’t risk my position in the police force until I had found my missing mother. So I had agreed with Tom to let Father Rochford run for now.