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  The Celestine Syriah gifted the essence of fire unto the witch Katrin.

  The Celestine Cerydrn gifted the essence of air unto the witch Lizbeth.

  The Celestine Firaya gifted the essence of water unto the witch Yolande.

  The Celestine Dydrenn gifted the essence of earth unto the witch Jorgen.

  The Celestine Ayasti gifted the essence of ether unto the witch Ismena.

  Aya

  When Aya went back to her home in the field of white flowers, it was her mother's power that allowed a fragment of their souls to remain to farewell their daughter and sister, Aeriaya.

  Ayasti had an affinity with the ether, the other side, and was able to do this as a gift to show her daughter that it wasn't her fault for being taken.

  Aya took after her father, power wise. She has the ability to move the earth (as displayed in The Shadow's Son).

  Her family never came to free her from the Roman's because they didn't have the power to go against Katrin and the six founders, not without losing everything. Aya never understood this and never got the chance to find out, but she forgave them anyway.

  Morgan

  After Zac left Morgan at the docks in Calais in 1944, she returned to complete her work with the French Resistance. She was responsible for saving hundreds of lives during WWII.

  When she turned up in Ashburton, Louisiana, looking for Zac in The Return, she was telling the truth. She did hear rumors about a massacred werewolf pack and that's what peaked her curiosity. She'd come to America with thoughts of the soldier she found in a ditch by the side of a dark road outside of Paris in the nineteen forties (Zac).

  Her code name in the Resistance, which she never told him or anyone else, was Banshee.

  The Six

  In The Awakening we heard everyone's stories. Nye, Rix, Maddox and Pyke. But we never heard from Rob or Holly, who weren't around very long anyway.

  Rob was a new vampire who replaced an earlier member, Will, who was cut in half with a scythe by a rouge vampire. This was not the same Will who accidentally turned Morgan (as told in The Return). Rob was a cage fighter who Maddox met at the underground ring mentioned in The Awakening.

  Holly was a prostitute in eighteenth century London. One of her clients was a vampire who wanted to possess her, so she was turned. It wasn't until a hundred years later than she joined the Six on Regulus' bequest. Much of her life before is a mystery.

  Aoife

  Aoife was born with the Celestine name Anorel.

  She was the daughter of one of the most powerful Celestines ever born and during the end days of the war with the Tuatha, she was offered as a bride to the Tuatha king, Lir, as a peace offering. The terms were agreed to and the pair married soon after. She was given the Tuatha name, Aoife as a part of the ceremony.

  Aoife's fate is unknown, but it is thought that either Lir exacted his revenge after he realized her betrayal or Isolde killed her when the Celestine tried to end her insane creation. No one knows for sure which of the two really happened.

  Tristan na Tri Tor

  Tristan (his name is old Irish for Tristan of the Three Towers), was the son of a lowly Irish Lord. He was sent to London at a young age to squire for a knight who later went in to found the Knights Templar in the mid to late 1100s.

  There, Tristan took a wife (Rose) and had a daughter (Rhiannon) with her. Unknown to him, his wife died while he was away fighting the Fourth Crusade (where he was when he was turned underneath the city of Constantinople in what is now known as Istanbul, Turkey). His daughter lived and married into a merchant’s family and lived a long life believing her father died a hero.

  The castle outside of Dublin that Regulus took Gabby to in The Awakening was Tristan's ancestral home.

  The Original Witch

  In The Awakening, Aed talked briefly about the witch that created him and his sisters. Her name was Isolde.

  Isolde was Aoife's human handmaiden given to her by the Tuatha and due to their relationship, the Celestine trusted her and created the first witch in existence. Neither of them understood what would happen and Isolde was driven mad from the potent Celestine blood that was used in the ritual.

  Isolde created the Tuatha hybrids as instructed by Aoife, but they realized too late that the instability had been passed to them.

  After hunting down and binding the Children of Lir, Aoife attempted to kill Isolde, but she escaped, never to be seen again.

  Coming Soon!

  Young Blood

  (Witch Hunter Saga #3.5)

  Release: TBA 2014

  The day Liz Evans went for a run in the forest, she didn't expect to die.

  She didn't expect to wake up, either. And to top it all off, her best friend Gabby turns out to be a witch. Like a real life witch. Not to mention her new boyfriend, Sam and his egotistical brother, Zac turning out to be something other than human.

  Her world is turned upside down in an instant and all those dreams she's had of going off to college and falling in love have gone right out of the window. All she can think about is blood and it takes all she's got to not go on a murderous rampage through town. With a little help from Zac, the guy she's definitely not meant to have feelings for, her life is able to go back to normal. Well, as normal as being a vampire can be.

  When she can finally cope with the thing she's become, there's only one question she wants answers to. And it's the one that mightn't have any at all.

  Who the hell would want to turn her?

  Young Blood is a Witch Hunter Saga novella that is part prequel, part companion. One half spans the time before The Witch Hunter (#1) and one half of the story occurs during the events taking place in The Awakening (#4). It can be read as a stand alone, however there may be some spoilers for the first three books of the main series.

  A new series set in the Witch Hunter World…

  Coming Soon…

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Hey there. My name is Nicole R. Taylor (the R stands for radical…not really, but I'll never tell) and I write books and stuff.

  I dream impossible dreams and live impossible fantasies. Sometimes I live out of a suitcase in far away lands. Sometimes I just like staying in.

  I write about vampires with complexes, rock stars looking for epic love, insane witches, super heroes, post-apocalyptic warriors, soul baring music lovers and samurai sword wielding women…all from a desk in a country town in southern Australia.

  I write to the beat of my own drum and go where the wind takes me.

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  www.nicolertaylorwrites.com

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  OTHER BOOKS BY NICOLE R. TAYLOR

  What Remains

  The Devil’s Tattoo

  The Devil’s Tattoo (Devil’s Tattoo #1)

  The Fire Walker (Devil’s Tattoo #2)

  The Witch Hunter Saga

  The Witch Hunter (#1)

  The Return (#2)

  The Shadow’s Son (#3)

  The Awakening (#4)

  TITLES COMING SOON…

  Young Blood (A Witch Hunter Saga Novella) (2014)

  The Panic Switch (Devil’s Tattoo #3) (late 2014)

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