J.L. McFadden is author of The Guardian series, a unique blend of paranormal, urban fantasy and romance. This post is part of his 4WillsPublishing-organized blog tour, to celebrate the launch of Choices, the second book in his series. Before you leave, don’t forget to take part in his Rafflecopter Giveaway!
The Guardian: Book 1 in the Guardian series
In The Guardian, John, a young man from Detroit, realizes he has a special bond with a vampire, Gala. This gives him special abilities and makes both of them a target, as the ancients will stop at nothing to destroy him and his relationship with this unbridled female vampire.
Choices: Book 2 in the Guardian series
In Choices, Adela, head of Gala’s coven, and John both have their fair share of choices to make. Adela must think of her coven, but at the same time she feels a burning desire for Gala’s Guardian.
John is torn between the woman he is fated to and Adela. He feels a desire to protect Gala, but also a yearning for Adela. At the same time, Adela must search for the secret journal known as the Guardian journal and protect those she loves from the dangers that lurk in the shadows.
Adela: the prequel to the Guardian series
Also available is Adela, the prequel to the series. The book follows the adventures of Adela, a beautiful young woman of a very wealthy family in Eastern Europe, who is fending off advances from an older aristocratic German businessman with an evil presence about him.
When she falls madly in love with another man, her suitor attempts to use the enslavement of her father’s land and people to force her to be his own.
Character List: Adela
Adela is the leader of a vampire coven in Lithuania and of the strongest vampires in the world. Gala is her great-great niece and a member of her coven. In Choices, Adela struggles with her attraction to John, her grandniece’s Guardian.
- Height: 5’9
- Hair Color: Black
- Eye Color: Brown
- Born: 1194 AD
- Turned: 1215 AD
- Gifts: Has ancestral abilities –strength and gifts vampires gains at a certain age.
- Family: Deceased – except her grandniece of many generations whom she turned to save from a terminal illness.
Character List: Gala
Gala is Adela’s right hand and C.O.O of the research company that is owned by the coven. Though her Guardian bond is so strong with John that she saved him from a car crash before his Guardian powers took hold, she finds herself wanting to push him away; she has never been able to handle any sort of relationship with anyone.
- Height: 5’6
- Hair Color: Dirty Blonde
- Eye Color: Ice Blue
- Born: 1972
- Turned: 1989
- Gifts: Has a Guardian
- Family: Deceased
Character List: John
John is Gala’s Guardian. He is torn between Adela and Gala: he feels his bond with Gala, but her constant rejections and fits is making it even harder to deal with his attraction to Adela. He wonders if his attraction is due to the one ability Adela has gained through her ancestral powers – to be irresistible to anyone.
- Height: 6’2
- Hair Color: Black
- Eye Color: Blue
- Age: 23
- Job Description: Guardian
- Gifts: Guardians gain their supernatural powers from their bond with a vampire; their spirit is so connected to the vampire that if the vampire parishes the Guardian will soon follow.
- Family: Deceased
About J.L. McFadden
J.L McFadden was born in Pennsylvania and spent his life bouncing around the States until beginning to travel the world. Starting out, he was a well-known musician in upstate New York that had a heavy playing schedule. Later, he went back to his home state to work in the Lumber mills of the mountains. In California, he worked in sales, management and even directed a small moving company until deciding to see the world.
His travels around the world have allotted him to not only join an International Aikikai Aikido Federation, but to have trained with Sanseis from Belgium, Ukraine, Russia and other European countries. He accounts his journeys and meeting of new people to his broad character types in his books.
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This tour was sponsored by 4WillsPublishing.
The more we learn of the characters the more we want to read. Nice J.L. Thanks for hosting Nicholas.
I am on your page today and have just noticed your comment. Thank you very much for your kind words.
Thanks for visiting, John! 🙂
Congrats on your tour this week, J.L.!
Thanks for hosting, Nich! I was going to participate in your survey, but I haven’t really ventured into a lot of paid advertising yet.
Thank 🙂 I hope to see you later on and I am sorry about the late reply…
Thanks for the visit! No worries, when you do I hope to have some more information you can use 🙂
Thanks for hosting today, Nich.
J.L., I hope you’re enjoying your tour. I know I’m having a great time following it. See you around.
Thanks for visiting, Liz! 🙂
Thank you, Liz 🙂 Look forward to seeing you in the future…
Thanks for hosting, Nicholas. You are an amazing supporter of fantastic indie authors. Best wishes to J.L. on this project.
Thank you so much, Beem! 🙂
Interesting post, J.L.! I agree with Nicholas that good characters will make a story great. Have a super tour! Thanks for hosting, Nicholas!
Thanks for visiting, John! 🙂
Thanks J.L. and Nicholas for a thorough and interesting review of the books in the series. Well done. 🙂
Thank you. Suzanne! 🙂
Sorry, Suzanne. Some how I missed your comment earliers, but thank you so much for stopping by and supporting this.
I don’t know about Vampire stories, I don’t like them much, just like Zombie stories. Too much blood letting. But I do respect other people’s tastes for such stories.
True, it’s not for everyone. I’ve read some pretty good ones, though – as you know, good writing is all about the characters. Of course, it helps if you find the environment to your liking, too 🙂
Everyone, has there own thing. The world would be a very boring place if this was not true…
Thank you for hosting me today.
A pleasure! Thanks for sharing your work with us 🙂
You did a really good job on the post and your site is set up really well. I am dreading redoing my site. Do you have another book in the works for the near future.
Thanks! 🙂
Don’t sell yourself short; after all, I got my info from your site, so it served its purpose 🙂
Sure, we’re currently illustrating Musiville (my next children’s book), and I’m penning the final Pearseus book.
Children’s books I imagine come with a lot of headaches over the animation and designer. How much of your process is spent on working with the designer or artist?
Quite a lot. I actually describe a bit of that on my https://nicholasrossis.me/2015/01/28/tour-through-blogland/ post.
Yeah, I thought that would be a lot of work.
Great post! On an unrelated matter: Nicholas, I’ve nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. To accept see my latest post for the rules. You do so much for the Indie community, and others, and I thought your effort deserved to be recognized, even if you choose not to accept. Congrats!
That’s wonderful, thank you so much!! 🙂
Of course I’ll accept – I’ve even got the perfect page for it: https://nicholasrossis.me/awards/ 🙂
Thank you 🙂
I meant the thank you to Sue, but also thanks for having me Nicholas.
Reblogged this on Legends of Windemere.
Thank you for the reblog…
You’re welcome.