Renee must use her imperfect mastery of time and space (along with a few of Padrille's dangerous, illegal gadgets) to rescue her pregnant niece Joelle from a deranged abductor. Visitors from the previous century are an unwelcome complication, but when the resources Renee would normally count on for backup are curiously reluctant to come to her aid, she needs all the help she can get. Even her cousin Gil, who became a vampire hunter in another timeline—and Grandpa Larson, founder of the Cadieux-Smith family, the man Renee killed when she was nineteen years old.
Katherine X. Rylien began writing fiction as a teenager, in spiral-bound notebooks (her teachers assumed she was taking notes). She completed the first draft of Blood Relations, recounting the early life of Renee Cadieux-Smith, in 1980. Over the next decade, she wrote two sequels, Vicissitudes and Revisitations.
Forty years later, after a plethora of other adventures, Katherine took these hand-written manuscripts down from the attic during the Covid-19 pandemic. 2020 saw a complete rewrite of all three volumes, with considerable revision for style and detail, yet Renee’s story is essentially unchanged. In the process of preparing the trilogy for publication, Katherine became convinced that there was a forth book in the series—her answer to the question, “What happens next?”