Guest Post | The Faction Box Set by Addison Albright

Today, we have the lovely Addison Albright on a visit. She’s here to tell us a little about her latest release, The Faction Box Set. Welcome, Addison 🥰

Hello everyone, and many thanks to the lovely Ofelia Gränd for letting me ramble a bit on her blog and tell you about the release of my new box set for The Faction duology.

What’s an author to do when they’ve written a story, but the characters (and/or universe) stick with them? I tend to go a couple of different ways with this.

One, as I mentioned in my guest post over on Ellie Thomas’s blog yesterday, I have a tendency to go easy on my characters at first, then write sequels/continuations for them later, ramping things up. It’s never intentional, I always figure the story I’ve written is complete as it is, and sometimes we just want a cozy little story.

This is what happened with my vampires. Although the first half of the duology is a complete, albeit mild, story in its own right, the second half picks up immediately after to continue their story with heavier drama.

But what else do I do when the characters and/or their universe stick around in my mind? Sometimes they don’t give me a fresh novella’s worth of story, but just fun scenes, and thus my bonus scenes are born.

If you read The Faction Box Set (or have already read the two books in it, The Recruit and The Choice), then you might be happy to know that I’ve written more than a handful of bonus scenes for them. Well, more than a handful if you count the universe they live in but featuring different vamps.

I’ve rewritten the park scene in The Recruit from Albert’s POV (told in three parts). This is the scene where Albert, the local faction leader, approaches Phillip (whose new identity after he turns will be Neil). Although the original was a fun scene from Phillip’s POV as he processes Albert’s offer, I thought it was a perfect pivotal scene to take another look at from Albert’s perspective.

I’ve also written a continuation scene featuring both Albert and Phillip/Neil. And now there’s my ongoing serial featuring vamps from the same universe (which, as it turns out, is the same universe as in Weekend at Bigfoot’s, and also features the MCs from that novella). There are four parts to that so far on my website, and another that just went out in my newsletter last week (it’ll be added to my website, too, next month, or you can read the online NL archive of it, here).

It tells the tale of what might happen when a Bigfoot shifter finds himself unable (due to last-minute events outside his control) to get home to his sequoia forest for his annual birthday shift. In the aforementioned continuation scene, my vampires first learn of the existence of Bigfoot shifters, and of course they’ve kept a close eye on them since. So, when Oliver and Wilson run into trouble, my vampires come to their rescue. But not without a few snags to contend with.

Bonus scenes are probably my biggest outlet for relieving my existing-MCs-on-the-brain pressure. I think the only one of my published books without any is Closets Are for Clothes. All the others have quite a few. Some have at least a novella’s worth of words written adding scenes to the published stories.

Worth checking out, eh?

BOOK INFO

Genre: Gay Paranormal Romance Box Set

Length: Novel Length / 50,862 Words / 179 Pages

Heat Rating: 2 Flames

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The Faction Box Set

A dying man, a chance for life. A dangerous obsession, an unenviable choice.

When the faction’s new recruit takes a misstep on his first solo outing as a vampire, Albert thinks his faction has controlled the fallout. Neil, née Phillip, is thankful for his new lease on life, but will give it all up if that will prevent his ex-boyfriend from having to pay for his mistake. This box set includes both books in Addison Albright’s best-selling M/M vampire duology.

Contains the stories:

The Recruit: Albert Manlii has walked this earth for many years and leads a faction of highly organized vampires carefully guarding the secret of their existence. Potential recruits are carefully selected and presented with an offer. Phillip Brewer has weeks to live — if he lets his disease run its course. He doesn’t want to die, but will his desire to live outweigh his concerns about the vampires’ ethics?

The Choice: Now that faction-leader Albert has a blood-mate, he finds himself second-guessing his decisions. Neil would be crushed knowing the mistake he’d made as a fledgling vampire led to human deaths, but Albert shouldn’t factor that into the difficult choices he must make. Will Albert’s indecision put the entire vampire establishment in danger? Or is redemption only a flamethrower away?

EXCERPT

“Please.” Phillip swallowed as a shiver of hope drifted over his skin. “I need you to spell out what you meant—earlier. Before your demonstration.”

Albert smiled. It was the smile of a man who sensed he had his fish on the hook. “About helping each other?”

Phillip nodded.

“You don’t need to die yet. I’ve been walking this earth for more than two thousand years.” Albert spoke calmly as Phillip froze in place, clenching his hands at his belly.

Two thousand years? And he wanted to make a deal with Phillip? Did Phillip want to? What was in it for him? Everlasting life, apparently. But would it be an existence he wanted? “Who are you? You’re immortal. But how?”

“Immortal in the sense that I, and others like me, won’t appear to become older beyond our age at the time of transition. Nor will we die of natural causes. We can be killed, though. You’ve witnessed my self-healing abilities, but anything that would instantly kill a human will kill me…us, too.”

“So, if I agreed, this cancer would disappear just like that?” Phillip snapped his fingers.

“Like all of our ‘supernatural’ capabilities, self-healing improves over time. As a new convert, you won’t immediately feel better. It’ll take about a day for you to feel one hundred percent.”

That was hardly a deterrent, but Albert was obviously holding back. What facilitated this “transition”? “You still haven’t answered the question. Who are your people?”

Albert hesitated for a moment before replying. “The word you’re searching for is ‘vampire.’”

Phillip burst out laughing. He didn’t know what the hell he’d been thinking Albert’s answer would be, but the existence of some kind of magical immortality potion was difficult enough to believe without throwing in something that absurd.

Albert’s revelation probably should have made Phillip run in the opposite direction—if he’d believed it, or made him angry—because really, what kind of person fucked with a dying man like that? But at least his final hours were diverting. “You had me going there for a while.”

Tilting his head to the side, Albert raised a single eyebrow as he continued to gaze at Phillip. “Not the usual reaction. Intriguing, though. You don’t believe me, do you?”

“Please,” Phillip scoffed and gestured toward the bright sun overhead.

ABOUT ADDISON ALBRIGHT

Rainbow Award winning author Addison Albright lives smack dab in the middle of the USA. Her stories are gay romance in contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction genres. She generally adds a subtle touch of humor, a dash of drama/angst, and a sprinkle of slice-of-life to her stories. Her education includes a BS in Education with a major in mathematics and a minor in chemistry. Addison loves spending time with her family, reading, popcorn, boating, French fries, “open window weather,” cats, math, and anything chocolate. She loves to read pretty much anything and everything, anytime and anywhere.

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