Trysmoon Book 2: Favorite Chapters

As promised, here is installment number two of the favorite chapters series. Today I will be covering my favorite chapters in Book 2: Duty. As with the previous installment, I am limiting myself to two chapters even though it hurts.

For all the action going on, Book 2 is very much a relationship book. We find Gen at the center of a love "quadrangle," if you will, his bonds with Fenna, the Chalaine, and Mirelle all developing in their own ways. I have to admit that writing Mirelle's flirtation attempts with Gen was always a lot of fun. As always, it was hard to choose just two chapters. My selections await below.

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Favorite Scenes: Trysmoon Book 2: Duty

Chapter 43: Revelation

Revelation is a no-brainer selection for me. To refresh your memory, this is the chapter where Gen and the Chalaine are trapped in the canyon together. Gen becomes the first man to see the Chalaine unveiled, and due to his love for her and his respect for her rescuing him from the demon's poiosn, he has the power to resist the carnal pull of her beauty.

For me, this chapter is the emotional core of the story. Gen and the Chalaine finally get to step apart from all the pressure and all the demands their roles place upon them and just be a young man and a young woman hiking in a canyon. As an author, I wanted to show just how comfortable their relationship had become and how much the Chalaine had come to adore Gen. He, of course, loves her as well, with a purity no other man could match.

This is the chapter that makes Chapter 47, Discipline and Breakdown, hurt. But it also shows the depth of the Chalaine's commitment to do her duty, to make the world a place where everyone she loves can find happiness, even if that means she must sacrifice her own.

Runner-up

Chapter 28: Interviews

In Interviews, we find the Chalaine in a bad place emotionally. She's jealous of Fenna's relationship with Gen, she's disgusted by Chertanne to the point she can hardly stand it. Her solution: go outside her chambers in the middle of the night and annoy Gen. During the process, the Chalaine has an emotional breakdown, venting at Gen in the empty Great Hall.

I love this chapter simply because the Chalaine finally gets to let loose with her inner turmoil and Gen gets to try to deal with it. During the process, a strong bond between the two develops, and the seed of the Chalaine's desperate, forbidden love for her Protector starts to grow in earnest. If it hadn't happened before, it's at this point I think a reader begins to hope there is some way for the Chalaine to be able to escape from Chertanne and be with Gen, something I hoped would be an expectation readers would carry forward to the end of the book.

Well, that's it for this installment. Contact me with any of your comments or favorites. Until Book 3...