As a way of introducing Blood Inheritance I thought it would be fun to do a few character background pieces. There shouldn’t be any spoilers in here though, so you should be safe if you haven’t yet read the book.

Elizabeth Hastings is technically the main character of The Lazarus Hunter series. I say technically because I’ve always felt Monica Carletto has been a main character in her own right. There will be more about her in later post.

I love Elizabeth as a main character. She is smart, funny and capable. More importantly, she has a whole history to live up to and still always insists on doing things her way. I always admire (in both fiction and real life) people who can take the cards life deals them, no matter how bad the hand, and use it to work in their favour. The ones who get back up, no matter how hard they’ve been knocked down. For me, Elizabeth is the very embodiment of that quality. She’s not Buffy, but I wanted someone who at least didn’t undo all the amazing things that Joss Whedon did for female empowerment when he put the fate of the world in the hands of a girl.

Non-spoilery character background:

She’s British (and as she’s the main character, that is why the spelling in the book is British English, rather than using Americanised spelling). Her age is never actually mentioned in Blood Inheritance, although an interesting age conversation actually happens in book four (yes, I am that far along in writing the series).

She has some interesting scars, but none where you can see them.

She once ran a marathon in 3:02:59, but practices sprints more these days. After all, no one has ever had to outrun a vampire for 26.2 miles…

Blood Inheritance is available on kindle now.