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Nora’s Soul developed out of two dreams, interconnected, that wouldn’t leave me alone. They were all I thought about. The first dream itself centered around a woman at a nightclub dancing the night away with a sinfully attractive man. Simple enough but for the fact that, when she turned away from him, his eyes began to glow red, giving him a devilish look. When she showed up in my next dream, the woman was dressed in a rather proper manner and moving into a garage apartment, preparing to take care of the twins of a widower. Who was this woman and why was she out dancing with a devil one night and preparing to care for children the next? The questions fueled my imagination, demanding answers. The first answer came in the identity of the woman, Nora, who began to give me clues to her background. Then the angels arrived. When he first came to me in my dream, Dante portrayed himself as something of a devil. So that’s how I described him. He was a devil, his only purpose was to steal Nora’s Soul, and that was the end of the story. Or so I thought. But Dante had other ideas. Just when I thought I was done with him, he wouldn’t let me go. He kept invading my dreams, telling a different story. I soon learned that Dante was an angel who, not unlike Nora, was led down the wrong path by his desires. And Dante also finds himself having to make some decisions that could have severe ramifications not only for himself but also for others connected to him. Peter is the exact opposite of Dante in every way—looks, demeanor, purpose. But he is also an angel—and Dante’s nemesis. You see, Peter knows Dante’s potential, knows that he is inherently good, but has just chosen the wrong path. It is Peter’s mission to lead Dante back onto the right path. As the story evolved from the simple tale of a woman’s crisis of faith into an angel’s crisis of faith, it took several years to develop as I worked out the logistics of how to tell this story. Once I realized that the true story was Dante’s and that he was just using Nora to introduce himself to me, the process of developing his story became turbo-charged and just flew off the page. I also realized that his story is too vast to be contained in one book, so he will be showing up again in someone else’s life soon. Nora’s Soul is book one in The Dante Chronicles.

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