Most Popular Dark-Hunter Characters:

  1. Simi
  2. Acheron
  3. Zarek
  4. Nick
  5. Vane
  6. Savitar
  7. Stryker
  8. Urian
  9. Cael
10. Carl (cause I do the site and I can cheat!)

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Night Pleasures (the first published novel) hit a sales ranking of #6 on Amazon.com a full eight months before publication. It still remains one of their top sellers


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Factoid: The Dark-Hunter series was one of the most eagerly awaited series in publishing history. Thousands of fans from more then 28 countries were desperate to lay hands on the books a year before any of them were published (the anticipation was so great that Sherrilyn was mentioned in the Idiot's Guide to Vampires before ANY of the books had been published). DH fans threatened to storm the Flat Iron building in NY in order to gain the first glimpse of it.

The irony is that it took Sherrilyn almost eight years from the completion of the first DH book to find a publisher willing to take a chance on the series.

The most cited rejection was that the series concept was too different to be marketable.

 

In the world of the Dark-Hunters nothing is ever as it seems. Life and death both take on a whole knew meaning as this immortal cadre of warriors fight to protect mankind from those creatures and demons who would prey on us.

As far as the series goes, we are currently in stage 1 of it and Acheron will launch us into part 2. I see the entire series as one large, ongoing story that has 4 major parts.

The first part is Acheron.

Part 2 will be Jaden

Parts 3 will be Savitar

and 4 involves a character the readers aren't yet familiar with.

There are questions in every book that will be answered in the future. The one thing I ask readers to keep in mind is that every story has at least two sides. The side of the person who witnessed or experienced it and the truth. Events are always clouded by perception, conclusions and emotions. If two or more people experience the same exact event, they will come away with two entirely different tales about it. Sometimes VASTLY different. My series is no exception. Each character will have their own unique take on every event.

Sometimes they will contradict each other. Much like my sister and I tell two different versions of an event with I was in 4th grade. Her best friend and I were playing vampire. When Virginia went to bite me, she said. "I vant to suck your blood." Of course I jokingly cried out, "No, you can't!" To which she responded, "Why? Are you anemic?" My response to Virginia was "No, I'm Baptist!" Now my sister (who is thirteen years older than I) refuses to believe that I knew it was a joke. She says I was too young to understand what anemic meant and confused the word with atheist. Of course, since I was the one who responded, I know for a fact that I knew what anemic meant (I was first diagnosed anemic by my doctor at age five and have been treated for anemia all my life). My sister to this day says that I didn't know-- you cannot convince her otherwise.

Everyone has argued such events with another participant so I know you all know exactly what I'm referring to. Then of course, there are those people who flat out lie about events to cover for themselves or others (or lie for reasons only they understand) and I know you all know them too. While this can be confusing at times for the reader and may look like I forgot what I'd initially written, I'm hoping all of you will give me the benefit of the doubt until the real truth is shown to you. Believe me, in the DH world even the lies have a place.

There are many different species and branches who make up the world. But for those who are new to the universe, here's a quick tutorial:

Dark-Hunter: An ancient warrior who sold his/her soul to the Greek goddess Artemis for a single act of vengeance. Now they protect mankind from the Daimons who want to claim our souls.

Apollite: A member of a race cursed by the god Apollo. They cannot be out in daylight and they must live on the blood of each other. At age 27, they die a slow and painful death unless they decide to turn Daimon and prey on human souls.

Daimon: An Apollite who refuses to docilely die over a curse s/he had no part in creating. They feed on human souls and fight the Dark-Hunters. 

Were-Hunter: Originally part of the Apollite race, their DNA was magically spliced with animals. Now they are shape-shifters who are embroiled in a war against each other.

Dream-Hunter: They are the gods of sleep who were cursed by the Greek gods to feel no emotion whatsoever. But they carry within them a dark secret that could completely shake the world in which they live. The Oneroi branch are often helpers to the Dark-Hunters.

Charonte: A race of demons who are extremely violent and amoral. They have a very interesting code of ethics.

Squire: A human who is employed by a Dark-Hunter or a human who has skills that make a Dark-Hunter's life a bit easier. They have an entire organization set up and are willing to die or kill to protect the secret of the DH world. 

Oracle: One who speaks with the gods. They tend to be really crusty/cranky people.

Chthonian: A race of... well that would be the question. There are only a handful of them left and they are a CRANKY bunch.

Savitar: Yeah... in a class by himself ;) Ditto on Acheron.

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Sherrilyn's Other Series:

> Were-Hunter (shapeshifters/paranormal)

> Dream-Hunter (mythology/paranormal

> Lords of Avalon (Arthurian fantasy)

> The League (Science Fiction)

> Nevermore (coming soon)

> BAD (contemporary)

> Brotherhood of the Sword (medieval historicals)

 

 

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