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Rene Lyons

Where the damned come to play

About Me


Midnight Sun: Book One of the Templar Vampires Series
Available in print and eBook formats
Samhain Publishing
When things go bump in the night, Allison Parker bumps back. As the resident Ghost Hunter in a quiet, rural town, she's thrust into the nocturnal world of the Templars. Embracing the night, she finds a place where she belongs.
Damned by God, Sebastian of Rydon knows only blood and death. After eight hundred years of merely existing, he learns what is to live after Allie comes bursting into his life. Her spirit guides him out of the dark.
Caught up in a web of hate and revenge, they search for love as their world is torn apart.
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The Daystar: Book Two of the Templar Vampires Series
Available in print and eBook formats
Samhain Publishing
Always feeling different from the world around her, a power grows within Lexine Parker. In the light is where she belongs—even as she finds herself thrust into the nocturnal realm of the Templar vampires.
Scarred by a brutal past, Constantine is a creature consumed with rage. He knows only darkness and sin. Believing he fights a losing battle of redemption, heaven is something he doesn't dare hope for—until Lexine makes him believe salvation is possible.
Locked away in an ancient castle, they come together in body and spirit, searching for love to chase away the darkness. With Constantine’s soul at stake and Lex’s life on the line, the nights tick down to a cataclysmic event that could tear them apart forever.
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Tempting Darkness: Book Three of the Templar Vampires Series
Available in eBook format
Print: October 16th
Samhain Publishing
Trapped in the dark, can two lost souls find their way back to the light?
Once a proud Templar Knight, Lucian of Penwick lost his faith when God damned him as a vampire. Tormented by guilt, he is dragged back to his ancestral home and forced to confront the sins of his past. As he struggles to uphold his oath, Lucian knows if he falters, it’s not just his own soul on the line…
Ripped from life as she knew it, Jessica Vargo is held prisoner in a world of darkness and torment. Deep in the bowels of a medieval castle, the line between myth and reality blurs and the only one she can trust is the seven-hundred-year-old vampire.
But as darkness tempts, can Lucian and Jessica find their light?
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Setheus: Book One of the Seraphim
Coming July 2007
Samhain Publishing
He fell from grace to protect humanity and found Heaven in her kiss.
After her mother’s deathbed confession changes everything she’s ever believed, Sabrina heads out on a quest to find out who—and what—her father was. Instead, she finds Seth, a man whose life is as steeped in secrets as her own.
Thousands of years ago, Setheus made the ultimate sacrifice. He gave up Heaven to protect humanity from Hell. For years, he has waited, biding his time for Sabrina to come to him for answers. But he was unprepared for the feelings her arrival has awakened in him.
As Seth and Sabrina discover a love that burns brighter than the light of Heaven, a deadly threat overshadows their happiness. Before they can find peace with each other, Sabrina and Seth are forced deeper into the battle between Heaven and Hell, and must confront an enemy that would unmake the world…
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The Awakening: Book One of the Crystian Chronicles
Coming October 2007
Tease Publishing
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Bella Morte: Book One of the Shadow Huntresses
Coming Spring 2008
Tease Publishing
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My Interests

Official Website
Blog
Forum
Cafe Press
Email

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I'd like to meet:

Stephen King. I also wish I had the chance to meet William the Conqueror, William Wallace, and Queen Elizabeth the First.

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**As per my attorney's request, any book ideas, suggestions, storylines, characters, and such that is sent to me, will not be read and will be deleted promptly. I also cannot test read any material for you.**

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Music:

Candle Box / Live / Three Doors Down / Evanescence / Enigma / Nickleback / Metallica / Bush / Tool / Korn / Hinder / Seether / The Doors / The Beatles / Led Zepplin / Twisted Sister / Pink Floyd / Fuel / Linkin Park / Buckcherry / Godsmack / P.O.D. / The Offspring / Alice-n-Chains / Rob Zombie

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Movies:

300 / Gladiator / Braveheart / Kingdom of Heaven / Elizabeth / Lord of the Rings Trilogy / Tristan and Isolde / Kingdom of Heaven / Troy / King Arther / The Sixth Sense / Signs / Resident Evil / The Princess Bride / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / The Crow / Serenity / Underworld / Blade Trilogy / Constantine / Quills / Nightbreed / Interview With the Vampire / Hellraiser / Near Dark / Labryinth / The Prophecy / Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 / X - Men Trilogy / Full Metal Jacket / Flags of Our Fathers / Saving Private Ryan / Bad Santa / EuroTrip / Drop Dead Fred / Death and the Maiden / American History X / Jackass 1 & 2 / Doom / Aliens / Da Vinci Code / Fight 93 / The Departed / Crank /Wolf Creek

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Television:

Ghost Hunters / Prison Break / Smallville / Heroes / House / Grey's Anatomy / Everybody Hates Chris / Forensic Files / The Riches / The Sopranos / Entourage / The Tudors

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Books:

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet / The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross / Lynn Kurland / Julie Garwood / Sherrilyn Kenyon

Heroes:

William the Conqueror / William Wallace / Elizabeth the First

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"You grew on me like a colony of E. Coli on room-temperature Canadian beef."

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I'll be attending the 2008 Romantic Times Book Lovers Convention in Pittsburgh. I'll be sitting in on an author panel for the vampire genre as well at participating in the Book Fair. I hope to see you there!

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My Blog

A good idea gone bad

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. And no!Why is it every time Hollywood has an awesome idea they go and ruin it? I wanted to Like B&C. I really did. Unfortunately, I've found root canal far more enjoyab...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:26:00 PST

Irony

In going through my covers, I realized how ironic life can be. Follow me along here for bit to see exactly what I mean...When I was a kid, maybe ten or so, Hulk Hogan and (at the time) WWF were huge. ...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:47:00 PST

Thirteen things I hate doing

1. CookingI'd rather scrub a gas station bathroom in the nastiest of truck stops instead of cooking.2. Writing under deadlineThe creative well always seems to dry up the closer I get to a deadline.3. ...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:25:00 PST

New cover for a new series

I'd like to thank Sonya Hart for lending herself to the cover....
Posted by Rene Lyons on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:31:00 PST

My two celebrity crushes

I don't know what it says about me that these are my only celebrity crushes.Rob ZombieStephen KingI think there's a pattern here. Give me an interesting, intelligent, and creative man over a shallow p...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:34:00 PST

Tattoo: Redone

About six months ago I got a tattoo to represent my accomplishment of getting published. In honor of my Templar Vampires, I got a red Maltese Cross on my left wrist. The tattoo came out awful. I mean,...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:30:00 PST

Jesse representing her mommy

This is my Jesse representing the Templar Vampires. ;)
Posted by Rene Lyons on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:24:00 PST

Last night I had a thought

Last night I had a fantastic conversation with a really good friend. The things we talked about got me to thinking (scary, huh?). First of all, I'm not as heartless as I like to boast I am and secondl...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:35:00 PST

Another word I hate using when I write

First off, let me apologize for not doing a Thursday Thirteen here yesterday. I did one with Stella on Delicious Darkness but didn't blog hop like usually do. I was a bit...blah...and simply not up to...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:20:00 PST

Thirteen things that as authors we wont ever do

This is taken from my blog with Stella Price. Hers are the blue mine are the pink. 1. Get all DIVA about it.I cant see either of us ever becoming a diva. Both of us are too laid back and down to ear...
Posted by Rene Lyons on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:14:00 PST