Bloodlines Versus Blood Lines

 I have been asked many times why I separated the two words instead of combining them in the way they should have been in the way they should have been in this instance.  I’m going to try and explain this in a way that will make some sense while trying not to give too much away regarding the story.
We all have our bloodlines going back through time, but it also goes forward.  You have a child, that child becomes a part of your bloodline, it’s just your bloodline moving forward.  Let’s face it folks it takes two, under whatever circumstances we produce that child, to make that happen.  Here’s the thing, that child is the product of both the mother and father’s bloodlines.
If there is a bond between two people who are meant to be together, but something happens to keep these two people together or a piece is removed from those lines then the resulting bloodlines become broken.  That is what the title of the series represents in one instance.  The curse from the first book is a result of one such break.  I stayed with that theme in the second book because again two bloodlines are brought together but in this case it has more to do with the people that are produced by two different bloodlines.  The same in the third book.  Two different bloodlines but in this case of something bring these two together when a young woman brings it to the door of her cousin’s house one night.
Two families coming together can be a good thing, friendship, love, even a child.  It can also bring together hatred, violence, and death.  Think of the Hatfields and the McCoys.  The bloodshed from these two families coming together resulted in pretty much all of the above, blood lines.  They will forever be joined together but never bonding together.  Romeo and Juliet are another good example, although they are fictional, blood lines.  A tragic separation of the two families in both cases.  My Blood Lines series simply takes that kind of thing into consideration.  I simply couldn’t put the two words together and be true to the series.