Thanks to everyone who emailed me about the serial--I hope you enjoy it! Meanwhile I am rewriting the first third of my latest Presents, which has the working title (which I quite like) The Husband She Never Knew. This is proving a hard book to write, but not a bad kind of hard. It's challenging, but I can visualize an end product--it's just shaping it to get there. Some books I tie myself in knots trying to figure out the emotional conflict and how to keep it going for 200 pages. There is a part of me that says 'you love each other, get over whatever problem you have and move on already!' And let me tell you, that little voice is NOT HELPFUL when I'm trying to write a book with a sustainable conflict and plot. However, that is not the problem with this book. The problem with this book is that there is so much conflict I wonder how these two are going to make their HEA. And what's interesting, and a bit different for me, is that they're BOTH fighting for it for nearly the whole book. This is not a book where one person has to be convinced he or she is in love. This is a book about soul mates who are finding it really, really hard to stay together. And here, as a little teaser, is the last thing I wrote today:
For a stunned second everything in Noelle contracted with longing and regret. This was what she had wanted so desperately. A normal life, a normal marriage. Mornings with sunshine and the scent of fresh coffee and a hello kiss.
Well, she had two of those things today. Definitely not the third. She cleared her throat. ‘Good morning.’
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