I gave you all a tough question this month to win that $50 Amazon gift certificate, butterfly car charm and a book of your choice. The question required knowledge of Daegan from Vampire Mistress/Vampire Trinity, as well as a familiarity with my angels from the Daughters of Arianne series. The question I put out there was “Who is Daegan’s father?” And of course I noted in the newsletter that this had to be an educated guess, because it’s never stated outright in Vampire Mistress and Vampire Trinity – only hinted. I gave you a clue by suggesting you consider Daegan’s genetic features – hair, eye color, etc.
Now, based on that, some of you guessed Jonah, which was a very good guess, because Jonah did have dark hair and dark eyes, like Daegan has. Others of you guessed Dante, from Mermaid’s Ransom. However, since Daegan is centuries old, and Dante is only sixty, it was a mathematical impossibility (laughter) – but you correctly picked up on a genetic feature that Daegan had that Jonah didn’t – the crimson lights that occasionally flicker in his eyes. Jonah’s eyes did become crimson in Mermaid’s Kiss, but only due to poison and external extreme circumstances, not as a regular genetic feature.
There’s only one angel in my books that has dark hair and dark eyes with flickers of crimson in them, and Dotty B correctly named him. Daegan’s father is Lucifer. This is from A Witch’s Beauty, about Lucifer: “As the only born angel of the Seraphim with color in his eyes, red flame flickered among the coal depths.”
One day I’ll write a vignette about the circumstances under which Lucifer came together in his brief interlude with Daegan’s mother – and don’t worry, it wasn’t a betrayal of Lucifer’s Lady (you know me better than that! – grin).
Congratulations, Dotty, and thanks for all who played! I promise I’ll go back to the much easier “book of your choice” drawing next month – no questions! :>
