Blackthorn’s Finale Title Reveal

Review copies of Blood Bound are almost ready! But that also means the title of the final Blackthorn book will be revealed at the back – and there’s no way I can let it slip out before I’ve had a chance to announce it properly.

So in a flash 24-hour giveaway last night, I asked my Facebook followers to try and guess the title of our Blackthorn finale. There were around a 170 entries – and some were simply inspired! 😀

Guesses such as Blood Prophecy, Blood Eternal, Blood Born, Blood Destiny, Blood Forever and Blood Free were frequent occurrences. Amongst them seemed to be the common theme of revenge and triumph over oppression. But despite all the entries, no one guessed correctly. One thing is becomingly increasingly clear though, a happy-ever-after for our heroes and heroines is in high demand.

But will that be the case?

I can officially reveal THE TITLE OF THE FINAL BLACKTHORN BOOK is:

Broken promises? Broken hearts? Or, finally, a broken system? One thing is for sure, our most broken hero will be back in the spotlight, and that can mean only one thing: it’ll be make or break for Blackthorn.

And now that Blood Bound is nearly with us, you’re another step closer!

Don’t forget, I have a giveaway coming tomorrow. If you’d like to get your hands on an eBook of Blood Bound days before it’s officially released, don’t stray too far! 🙂

See you then! xxx

Who’s Who in Blackthorn

I love getting suggestions from my readers as to what they’d like to appear on this blog. A while ago I posted a list of all our key Blackthorn characters to date and to whom they’re connected. A big thank you to Melanie who emailed me to ask if I would repost this list again to help refresh her memory. Except this time I’ve gone one better…

Not only do we have pics of our heroes and heroines included, the list below is now interactive too! You can search for a name as well as being able to search by species. Hopefully that will cut down your time scrolling through.

I will also post this in ‘About Blackthorn’ in case you need to find it again.

*WARNING: This table contains spoilers for the first six books in the series*

NAME	SPECIES	RELEVANT INFORMATION
ABBY	Human	Heads up The Alliance – a human vigilante group. Employed Phia. Led in the assassination attempt against the Dehains.
ALISHA	Human	In a relationship with Jake Dehain. Youngest of the three McKay sisters, Leila being the eldest and Sophia the middle sister. Helped trick Leila into entering Blackthorn to save Jake.
ALEXANDER	Demon	Acquaintance of Kane Malloy. Gave Kane the herbs for the soul transference in Blood Shadows.
AMANDA	Human	Eden’s sister-in-law. Mother to Honey and wife to Billy.
AMILEK	Vampire (Higher Order)	Running for a political position in the Global Council, representing third species rights.
ARANA	Vampire	Younger sister of Kane Malloy. Set-up and murdered by the TSCD.
BEA	Human	Works for Tamara in her curiosity shop in Blackthorn.
BILLY	Human	Eden’s older brother. Father to Honey and husband to Amanda.
CAITLIN PARISH	Human (shadow reader)	Love interest of Kane Malloy. VCU agent. Stepdaughter to Max.
CALEB DEHAIN	Vampire (of undisclosed Higher Order descent)	Love interest of Leila McKay. Older brother to Jake. Rules the west side of Blackthorn. Pending Tryan: the prophesied leader for the vampire uprising.
CLAIRE	Human (deceased)	Mother to Leila, Sophia and Alisha McKay. Killed by a vampire in Midtown when the three sisters were young. Researcher at The Facility.
CORBIN	Lycan	Lycan pack’s Beta and Jask’s best friend. Partner to Solstice. Father to Tuly.
DANIEL	Human	Alliance member. Friend of Sophia.
EDEN REECE	Human (now super-human due to consuming angel tears)	Love interest of Jessie. Curfew Enforcement Officer (CEO) with the TSCD. Younger brother to Billy, brother-in-law to Amanda and uncle to Honey.
ELLEN	Lycan	Jask’s previous soulmate. Mother to Rone. Passed away during childbirth.
FEINITH	Higher Order vampire (vampire royalty)	Love interest of Caleb. Betrothed to Jarin of the Higher Order. Diplomat between the vampires and the humans. First tempted Caleb into hunting serryns.
HADE	Human	Son of a con. Caleb’s loyal right-hand man who helps run Caleb’s club.
HOMER	Human	Con. Pummel’s right-hand man.
HONEY	Human	Daughter to Billy and Amanda. Eden’s niece.
JAKE	Vampire (of undisclosed Higher order descent)	Caleb’s younger brother. Love interest of Alisha. His drinking a girl to death prompted Leila’s journey to Blackthorn.
JARIN	Higher Order vampire (vampire royalty)	Betrothed to Feinith. Caleb’s older brother, Seth, used to be his bodyguard until Jarin wrongfully disgraced him. Responsible for funding the assassination attempt against the Dehains.
JASK TAO	Lycan leader	Love interest of Phia (Sophia). Rules the north side of Blackthorn.
JESSIE (JESCA)	Envoi (messenger angel)	Love interest of Eden. Banished by her parliament and bound by a spell as punishment. Has seen and recorded the prophecy. Bound to the con Pummel.
KANE MALLOY	Master vampire (dual feeder of both blood and energy)	Love interest of Caitlin. The VCU’s most wanted vampire in Blackthorn. Runs the east side. Older brother to Arana (deceased).
KATHLEEN	Human	Caitlin’s mother. Killed by a soul ripper.
LEILA MCKAY	Human. Interpreter (non-practicing witch) and serryn (rare form of witch whose blood is poisonous to vampires)	Love interest of Caleb. Eldest of the McKay sisters.
MAX	Human	Head of the VCU (ex LCU agent). Caitlin’s boss. Stepfather to Caitlin. One of the four responsible for Arana’s murder.
MORGAN (MATT)	Human	Employee of the TSCD. Caitlin’s partner in Blood Shadows, now the temporary head of the VCU and TSCD since the trial.
MYA	Human	Con linked to Pummel’s row. Tried to honey-trap Eden.
PHIA (SOPHIA/SOPHIE) MCKAY	Human (then serryn)	Love interest of Jask. Middle sister to Leila and Alisha. Member of the human vigilante group, The Alliance responsible for the assassination attempt on the Dehain brothers.
PUMMEL	Human/con (convict)	Key player in the south side of Blackthorn: con territory.
RICK	Human	VCU agent. Killed by the soul ripper. One of the four responsible for Arana’s murder.
ROB	Human	Ex VCU agent. Worked with Caitlin’s father, Rick. Caitlin’s ex. One of the four responsible for Arana’s murder.
RONE	Lycan	Jask’s son.
SIRIUS	Human	Head of the Global Council, also head of all the TSCD divisions globally. Wants to eradicate the third species - particularly vampires and lycans - once he learns how to transfer souls.
SOLSTICE	Lycan	Partner to Corbin, Jask’s beta. Mother to Tuly.
SORRAN	Lycan	Key member of Jask’s pack.
TAMARA	Human/ witch (practicing)	Kane’s friend. Provided Kane with the book for the soul transference in Blood Shadows.
TATUM	Human	Con in Pummel’s row.
TULY	Lycan	Daughter to Corbin and Solstice.
XAVIER	Human	Chief of the TSCD. One of four responsible for Arana’s murder.
ZIEL	Angel	Acquaintance of Kane Malloy. Had one of his wings removed by the Angelic Parliament. Was used to temporarily close the fourth dimension in Blood Dark.

The penultimate book is nearly with us, everyone! Less than two weeks to go! Look out for a giveaway coming this Friday. 🙂

I’d Die For You

Our first Blood Bound Bite seemed to go down a treat on social media, so here’s another little teaser of what’s in store in our penultimate Blackthorn book…

And if you’re brand new to Blackthorn and have missed all of our previous Bites for the series, you can find them here. Feel free to share, pin etc etc.

Have a terrific weekend! xxx

Three Weeks To Go!

Only THREE WEEKS to go and BLOOD BOUND will be yours! I think it’s time we had a little teaser…

One Month To Go!

We have exactly one month to go, Team Blackthorn! In 31 days, BLOOD BOUND will be yours!

But some readers will be getting their hands on their copy even sooner than that. Do look out for a giveaway coming soon!

Due to some unsubtle nudges from you, I’m also in the process of planning a few teasers to help us pass the time between now and the release.

It’s the penultimate book, ladies and gents. I wonder what I could possibly have in store in this one…

Blood Bound’s a Gothic Number One!

We did it again, Team Blackthorn!!! 😀

I’m thrilled to be able to share that BLOOD BOUND went right in at #1 in Gothic Romance on Amazon UK within hours of it going live for pre-order! It also made it into the Top 10 in Gothic Fiction on Amazon.com! That’s now the fourth Blackthorn book in a row to achieve this!

As well as that, it hit #1 in Hot New Releases both in the Gothic Romance and Gothic Fiction charts on Amazon UK and Amazon.com respectively!

Thank you so, SO much to everyone who has already pre-ordered and made this happen. <3

And a huge thank you too for all of your amazing comments – both here and on social media – regarding the cover and blurb reveal on Wednesday. I can’t tell you how fantastic it is to know how much you’re looking forward to your next Blackthorn adventure. It means a heck of a lot.

If you missed my cover and blurb reveal, as well as those pre-order links, you can find my previous post HERE.

Have a fabulous weekend! xxx

Blood Bound Publication Date Announced

I’m thrilled to be able to reveal the publication date for BLOOD BOUND!

Bookouture has confirmed that book 7, the penultimate Blackthorn book, will be released on 21st September this year!

For those who don’t know, Jessie and Eden will be back taking centre stage in our latest Blackthorn installment. And, yes, there will be appearances from one or two other favourites too. 🙂 No other spoilers for now, but I’ll be sharing more news very soon!

Until then, here’s a little clue as to what reveal is coming next… 😉

Speak soon! xxx

Blood Instinct Paperback Winners

Last week, I launched a giveaway for you to be in with a chance of winning a signed paperback of Blood Instinct. All entries were allocated a number and the winners were chosen using a random number generator.

I am thrilled to announce that the winners are:

HUGE congratulations to Kelly, Natasha and Suzanne! Please email me or message me via Facebook with your home or work address, and I’ll get your signed paperback in the post to you as soon as possible.

Thank you so much to everyone who joined in! The quality and number of entries, as always, was fantastic. I loved reading them. <3

I’ll be disappearing for a little while now as I plough into my Blood Bound revisions, but I’ll keep you updated as and when I can. All I’ll say for now is look out for news coming soon. 😉

Have a wonderful week! xxx

Win a Signed Blackthorn Book

Due to all the recent excitement with Vampire Book Club’s Alpha Showdown, this giveaway is a little overdue. But it’s finally here… your chance to win a signed paperback of Blood Instinct!

A BLOOD BOUND UPDATE FIRST!

Before I plough into our giveaway, I’m thrilled to be able to tell you that the first draft of Blood Bound (Blackthorn’s penultimate book) is written! I’m now in the midst of revisions. I’ll have lots more news for you over the forthcoming weeks. Still no release date yet, but I’ll keep you informed!

THE GIVEAWAY

I have two signed books available – and anyone can enter to win one.

HOW TO ENTER

As many of you have already worked hard enough this past week to get our Kane through to the final, I’m going to keep this quick and simple. To remain with our Alpha Showdown theme, all you have to do to enter is answer the following question:

IF WE WERE RUNNING A ‘BLACKTHORN ALPHA SHOWDOWN’, WHO WOULD YOU VOTE FOR:

KANE, CALEB, JASK or EDEN?

That’s all you have to do! But if you tell me why you’ve chosen them, your name will be entered twice.

LEFT A REVIEW FOR BLOOD INSTINCT? YOU CAN ENTER THE BONUS ROUND!

I also have a third signed paperback put aside for an exclusive bonus round as an extra thank you to anyone who has left a review for Blood Instinct. Whether it be on Goodreads or on a retail site such as Amazon, just add where you’ve left your review at the end of your answer. Once the two winners of the giveaway have been drawn, your name will go back in for another chance to win.

THE RULES

For your entry to be valid you must either:

leave your answer below, OR
on the giveaway post on my Facebook page, OR
email me

The giveaway is open now and will close on Monday 20^th June at midnight (UK time).

Only one entry per person.

All entries will be allocated a number and winners will be selected using a random number generator. Two winners will be chosen from the main giveaway. After the first draw, numbers from the bonus round will go back in for a second chance to win.

All three winners will be announced here and on my Facebook page on Tuesday 21^st June.

Winners must claim their prize within seven days of the winner announcement.

As with all Blackthorn giveaways, prizes will be posted anywhere. Proof of sending will be retained and prizes cannot be replaced if lost in transit.

And as with all giveaways, I will avoid commenting on entries.

Good luck – and have a great weekend! xxx

Kane Won!

He was deemed the underdog from the outset, but Team Blackthorn was relentless. I’m thrilled to be able to tell you that our very own Kane Malloy has won Vampire Book Club’s Alpha Showdown 2016!! And he claimed the title with over 4,000 votes!!

In the words of Chelsea, owner of VBC:

“We haven’t had a surprise like this year’s Alpha Showdown in years. It’s official, a first-time contender has taken the title.

Congratulations to Kane Malloy from Lindsay J. Pryor’s Blackthorn series, your 2016 Alpha Showdown Champion!

It’s been a minute since a vampire held the title, and we’re so happy to welcome all the Blackthorn fans who came out in force for this master vampire. He beat former Alpha Showdown champion Barrons. BARRONS, y’all. And then won a second fierce battle against Kate Daniels. It’s impressive. He’s impressive.”

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to vote and show your support for Kane. To all my readers here, as well as across all my other social media; to my brilliant publisher who backed Blackthorn all the way; and to my exceptional street team who didn’t take their foot off the pedal from the second this showdown started – I can’t thank you enough. <3

Winning aside, events like these are all about having fun and finding fantastic new books to read in the PNR and UF genres – whether well-known global names such as the New York Times Bestsellers that Kane was up against, or relative newbies like Blackthorn and me. I’m loving all the recommendations being banded around across various social media as a result of this competition. So here’s a HUGE thank you too to Vampire Book Club for hosting the showdown.

I’ll be back tomorrow with some Blood Bound news as well as that giveaway I’ve been promising. I think it’s more fitting than ever now we have a little something extra to celebrate with!

See you then!

xxx

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