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#fridayfive 4.12.24

RETRIBUTION releases in just 11 days, so, today I want to share with you five tropes in the book

  1. The ANTAGONIST trope -in this book, the SERIAL KILLER is the antagonist. This person is the bane of the SPCD’s existence. I had such a good time writing the killer – their backstory, their road to what led them to kill.
  2. The KINDNAPPED trope – 6 girls have been kidnapped in the Washington DC Area – one every 21 days for 6 months. This also leads to the RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK trope in order to save them.
  3. The WOMAN IN PERIL trope. Not only the 6 girls, but the other two women in the story fall into this category as well. No spoilers here as to how, why, or even when, lol!
  4. The ORPHAN trope – if I told you why this one is in the book you would know too much before you read it. So…read it!
  5. The LOVE TRIANGLE trope. Again, this one will play itself out in the book, but if I told you about it now, it would spoil some of the discovery.

There are a few more I’ve added, such as the SCAR ( physical or emotion) trope, best friends, the protector trope, the red herring trope, and the hidden identity one as well.

It’ll be fun when you read the book to see if you can find any more!

You can order your copy from me, directly, here: RETRIBUTION

Or preorder it through Amazon, here: Retribution

Release date is APRIL 23 but if you order directly from me, you’ll get an autographed copy earlier than that!

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#mondaymusings #musings on a Monday 3.25.24

This is a question I get asked a great deal…

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A new #bookthrone #giveaway ENEMIES-2-LOVERS

I’m excited my newest NYC Socialites series book, INFLUENCE, is part of Bookthrone’s newest giveaway – ENEMIES TO LOVERS.

Clink on the landing page to enter and check out the other great stories in this promotion and enter for a chance to win a $100.00 Amazon GC! : E2L

Good Luck!!

Brand influencer, Lizzy Cray, is killing it.

She’s got a list of high profile clients who pay her handsomely to help their products explode on social media. Everything from cameras to cashmere, shoes to smoothies. One picture of her with a product and the money practically prints itself.

Why does this trust fund-baby need to work so hard to rake in the cash? That’s a question journalist Dominick Templeton wants an answer to, because Lizzy Cray used to be known in the gossip pages as socialite and wild-child Mackenzie Craymore.

Mackenzie disappeared from the public’s eye twelve years ago, right after her fiancé, hotel-heir, Lucky Blumenthal, died in a fiery car crash rumored to be fueled by drugs and alcohol. But now she’s back, still hauntingly beautiful, rebranded, and from everything Dominick’s researched about her, a much different person. When she ignores all his attempts at an interview, Dominick tries a different tactic and soon becomes embroiled in a world he never imagined…with a woman he’s rapidly falling for.

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#fridayfive

So, I write romance ( duh!) and in this genre we use tropes. A lot of tropes. Today, for my friday five, I’m naming the five tropes I love to read ( and write).

  1. friends to lovers. I adore figuring out who is going to “give” first in the relationship and admit to “feelings.”
  2. forced proximity. Also called just one bed, or even love on the run. The h/h are inseparable for some nefarious reason.
  3. workplace romance. My favorite because that’s how my own HEA started.
  4. slow burn. I’m not a wham-bang-thank-you-man/ma’am reader. I like the slow, sexy buildup to the physical side of the relationship.
  5. small town. So much goes on in the hot bed of small towns!!! Hee hee. I know – I live in one!

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Photo of the day, day 15

As a writer, I am first a voracious reader. I love reading books about the craft of writing and try to get in at least 4 or five new ones every year.

Under the title WHAT I’M READING NOW is this new little gem I picked up the other day. I am almost done with it. For a romance writer, tropes are something I think about all the time when I am starting a new story or trying to figure out why one I’m writing isn’t working.

This book is very easy to read and chock full of examples of tropes in the movie world, books, and every day life. Love that!

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