If a Werewolf Gets Lost, Does He Stop and Ask for Directions?

Author Bonnie Vanak is back with a new Draicon story this month — and the very unique question from her guest blog title!  So would Guy Laurent, the hero of Bonnie’s new Silhouette Nocturne Bite Darkness of the Wolf, ask for directions? Read on to find out…

by Bonnie Vanak, author of Darkness of the Wolf

I love Google maps and Global Positioning Systems. There are so many creative ways to get lost.

Forget the old-fashioned method of unfolding a road map, squinting at the fine print and realizing the road that looked like it led you to nowhere has lead you to… nowhere. Now you can have a computer gleefully inform you of this fact.

“Turn right at 100 yards. Turn left at 400 feet,” the GPS device blares. Then it proudly announces in that droning, know-it-all voice, “You have arrived at your destination.”

This is when you look around and say, “What?” Because you are now sitting at a dead end. The GPS device forgot to inform you the road didn’t cut through the neighborhood.

With Google maps, I like moving the little yellow icon person to a place where he isn’t allowed. Such as in the middle of a very elegant, posh gated community that does not permit the entrance of little yellow icons. The icon refuses to go there and reverts back to a busy road where I’m sure he promptly gets squashed by a distracted trucker looking at his GPS.

Now if the little yellow icon person were one of my Draicon werewolves, he wouldn’t have to worry about getting squashed by confused truckers. Because none of my Draicon werewolves ever admit to getting lost, nor do they stop and ask for directions.

In Darkness of the Wolf, Guy is a werewolf who’s been imprisoned and tortured for 30 years in a zoo operated by demons. He’s never heard of GPS devices or Google maps or even a CD player.  To win his freedom, Guy must team with Kayla Morris to find and rescue a little girl in the middle of a tiny Caribbean island. There are all sorts of interesting possibilities for getting lost on this particular trip.

Guy is a savage, lonely and tormented werewolf (and not because he’s been subjected to know-it-all navigation systems). He’s also a very confident and powerful wolf with strong magick.

He’s never heard of Blues Traveler or knows how to insert the silver disc into the CD player. However, he is the werewolf you want around when you’re in a dark, scary area at night and all GPS devices, Google maps and little yellow icons can’t help you. Guy will do everything in his power to keep you safe, including risking his own life. Even though he thinks he lives only for himself, his actions are selfless and honorable.

The world of technology is new to him, but Guy knows his needs. Thirty years of forced celibacy have his wolf howling to mate. He doesn’t think about electronic gadgets. He thinks about the softness of Kayla’s mouth and how she’d feel beneath him in bed. He doesn’t need a little yellow icon to steer him in that particular direction.

Guy never Googles. Instinct and skill guide him, not electronic equipment. He’s the complete opposite of Kayla, who thinks she knows where she is headed, but doesn’t realize she’s been traveling down the wrong road for years.

Darkness of the Wolf is really the story of two wandering souls. It’s only when Kayla and Guy admit to their rising desire that they find their way.

If they had an electronic navigation device for their relationship, the computer would gleefully tell Guy and Kayla they are all wrong for each other. “Wrong turn! Stop! You are on an exit ramp that will lead to CERTAIN DOOM,” the GPS device would blare.

Kayla and Guy would totally ignore the computer and follow their compulsion to mate and bond.

Because sometimes you just know you are right, even when state-of-the-art technology announces that you are wrong.

Bonnie Vanak

(You can now read a special sneak preview of my October Nocturne, Immortal Wolf, on my website, www.bonnievanak.com)