Cassandra Baron is the star character of my NaNoWriMo novel, tentatively titled CASSANDRA.  In this second novel of a series Cassandra Baron, becomes infatuated with a human named David Kilpatrick.

David happens to be the right hand man for Dominic Locke, the interim leader of the ancient race of predecessors to werewolves, known as the Rath. She becomes embroiled in the internal conflicts of the Rath and soon find herself facing off  with Dominic’s daughter, who is destined to be another new Power in the world.

Origin & Circumstances

Cassandra’s mother was the progeny of an amphibious civilization, long gone. Her father is the human musician, Jonathan Baron who discovered that his mother was a sea-dwelling, aboriginal remnant of that ancient race. Her genetic makeup was determined by the avatars of an ancient race of sentient ships known as the Vorsha. She was designed to be their perfect creation.
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Speculative Fiction by its very nature, lends itself to all manner of conjecture.  When creating fictional characters, gender is almost-always a fundamental characteristic that needs to be determined.  Some time ago, I found myself wondering why the majority of Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction writers out there seem to stick almost religiously to the standard male and female constructs.  This invariably led to the question of how much gender diversity already exists on our awesome planet.
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