[A series in 5 volumes]
The Soulbound series is a work of fiction (or is it?). This page will grow as the story progresses, and will eventually provide a summary, teasers, of all the Soulbound stories.
[Volume one has 24 chapters and Epilogue]
Present Day
The first story in the Soulbound Anthology, Soulbound tells the story of Daniel Anderson and the strange town of Agony, North Dakota.
Like most kids starting high school, Daniel Anderson is struggling to figure out who he is. Now he finds himself uprooted and starting ninth grade in a new town, a place called Agony, North Dakota. If the name of the town isn't strange enough, it's also filled with weird people who remind him – for reasons he can't explain – of the werewolves and vampires in the books he reads. Maybe it's just his vivid imagination, but there seem to be mysteries here that Daniel feels compelled to solve, all the time hoping his own secret won't be exposed.
But that's the funny thing about secrets. The harder you try to keep them hidden, the quicker they come to light.
[Volume two has 13 chapters]
Late 19th Century – First Prequel
The second story in the Soulbound Anthology and a prequel to Soulbound. It takes place over a century ago and tells the tale of Xavier Smyth:
November 30, 1888
We are boarding the RMS Umbria in Liverpool, headed for New York in the Americas. We should be there before the week is out, and I plan to spend the time as productively as possible, writing down the story of what transpired over the last few months. Consider this my biography, the story of Xavier Smyth, and how I lived to the ripe old age of fifteen before dying.
Confused yet? Allow me to start over. I was born Thomas Xavier Gibbs in the year of our Lord 1873, in Whitechapel, England. I've never cared for my name. Xavier sounds rather pretentious to me. I much preferred being called by my nickname, Zavy. I suppose even my nickname has been stolen from me, just as my life was snatched away when I was bitten by a vampire. This is how it happened…
[Volume three has 10 chapters]
Three years ago – Second prequel
A further a prequel, this tells the story of Connor Finnigan before he came to Agony:
He was five when rogue vampires burst into his home, killing his mother and father, sending him scrambling for his life into the nearby forest. For nine years, he lived as a feral wolf. Fighting to survive. Learning to hunt on his own. Growing stronger and faster with each passing day. Learning to use his werewolf powers until they became as natural to him as breathing.
Then one day, instead of being the hunter, he found himself the prey. Followed, tracked, herded, then captured by a pack of werewolves known as the Silvermanes.
Connor learned he wasn't the only werewolf in North Dakota. The Silvermane Pack was willing to take in a feral wolf, but only if he would allow himself to be tamed. That was something Connor wasn't certain he could ever do.