The fantastic nature of the History of humans and of vampires’ tales inspired me to write the saga Susylee’s chronicles. Its heroine, Susylee Arwels, awakens one night suffering from amnesia in a strange, post Victorian English abode. In quest of identity, truth and love, Susylee lives through the 20th century up to the present day and meets with a number of men and women who will contribute to writing History and who will be a part of hers.

What distinguishes this saga is that it gives the viewpoint of a female vampire, named Susylee. Vampire tales are usually seen through the distorting eyes of male, bloodthirsty, manipulating, and soulless vampires. Here the viewpoint is feminine; it is that of a female human in love with a vampire and their relationship is somewhat tragic. In Susylee’s world, vampires are not seen in such black-and-white terms. They have been living on this earth since the dawn of time. Even though vampires used to kill humans for food as well as for pleasure, their habits have changed with the passing of millennia. Today, with a few exceptions, vampires quietly live behind the scenes, and only the greatest leaders of our world know about them. The humans as a whole are not ready for the truth yet.

The various books of the saga make up a collection of Susylee’s adventures. A kind of human, post mortem autobiography in which Susylee tells us about her long vampire-training period with all the advantages and drawbacks inherent to her condition. Susylee needs writing as a means of exorcizing the evil within her; she needs writing in the first person in order to put on paper the various pieces of her lives’ puzzle and to understand who she is and where she comes from. Susylee wants to know how her ability to live through time, and her need to seduce are governed by her survival instinct and have made her what she is.

Despite her transformation, Susylee is a deep-rooted romantic in quest of emancipation; a young, female vampire with a resilient character, which will often get her into trouble. A vampire must abide by strict behavioral rules, which will interfere with her love life but also with her thirst for knowledge.

Susylee Arwels chooses to address her readers in a light, mischievous, humorous tone to pass on to them her most intimate thoughts. She means to seduce them and take them the world over in her quest for absolute truth.

Book 1 relates the genesis of the story of Susylee, the pretty young woman and recently turned-vampire who awakens and realizes she has lost all traces of her former life. With the help of her vampire Family, the Arwels, she will gradually get to know herself better and find a meaning to her new life. An initiatory journey which takes place over an entire century from 1910 to this day and, across three continents…

In book 2, Susylee is one-hundred-and-two years old, the coming of age among vampires. At last she learns the truth about her transformation and she can take control of her own destiny. On the day after her independence party, Susylee sets off in search of her creator who might well be hiding somewhere in Vietnam, the country of ghosts and spirits…

Book 3 relates how Susylee, who feels she’s been entrusted with a mission, sets off in search of the last remains of Gudry, one of the four Elders and founding members of the Arwels Family. With Soriel, her first love and Damian, her creator, she leaves for Iceland, the country of evil elves…