Victoria Scott | Last Letter from Dante

When I wrote the first book in the Dante Walker trilogy, I had no idea that Dante would speak directly to the reader in the opening pages. It wasn't until I was done with copyedits and proofing, and ARCs were being prepped, that I had the idea. After all, I'd spoken for Dante entirely in THE COLLECTOR, and Dante Walker is one to speak for himself, whether he wants to be heard or not. So I approached my editor with the thought of including a letter from the soul collector, and she immediately embraced the concept. The next morning, I drafted the first letter from Dante which appeared in the final, printed version of THE COLLECTOR. Readers seemed to love it, and so I drafted a second one for the sequel, THE LIBERATOR.

Now, with the release of the final book in the trilogy, THE WARRIOR, I wrote my last letter from Dante. This time, Dante's words had a sharper edge. He's been through a lot, after all, and is tired of the attacks on those he's grown to care about.

I hope you enjoy reading this final letter from Dante Walker, and the very first taste of this sexy, cocky, insufferable dude's last installment. Pow!

Working for the devil turns you into something unfixable. It makes you a demon, forevermore. It teaches you to feel anger before anything else, and to fight dirty for those things you believe yours. But I don't work for the devil anymore. I work for the good guys, even if I don't act like one. My job now is to protect my girlfriend from my former boss, and to rescue my friend from hell.

No, I don't work for the devil any longer. But I am still the man he made me. I am still angry, and volatile, and dangerous. I don't like the things he's done, and I'm not about to sit back quietly. After all, he taught me better than that. He loved me with the kindness of a serrated blade, and fed me from a spoon dipped in terror.

He made me into a monster.

But I will bite the hand that fed me.

—Dante Walker

The Collector Trilogy

The WARRIOR

War between heaven and hell is coming, but Dante Walker makes it look damn good.

Dante's girlfriend, Charlie, is fated to save the world. And Aspen, the girl who feels like a sister, is an ordained soldier. In order to help both fulfill their destiny and win the war, Dante must complete liberator training at the Hive, rescue Aspen from hell, and uncover a message hidden on an ancient scroll.

Dante is built for battle, but even he can't handle the nightmares where spiders crawl from Aspen's eyes, or the look on Charlie's face that foretells of devastation. To make matters worse, the enemy seizes every opportunity to break inside the Hive and cripple the liberators. But the day of reckoning is fast approaching, and to stand victorious, Dante will have to embrace something inside himself he never has before—faith.

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