Welcome to the hop! I can’t believe we only have two more weeks until Christmas. It’s crazy how fast this year has gone by. I feel like I’ve done a lot of things, and I feel like I’ve not done anything at all if that makes sense. I’ve started baking alllll the cookies and my holiday cards come on Wednesday so I’ll have to start addressing them.
Today we talk about how we balance realism and hope in stories of second chances.
I think that balancing realism and hope in second chance romance is all about honoring the past while giving the future a fighting chance.
A second chance only feels earned if the first break mattered. You have to show the consequences of the breakup; mistrust, regret, changes in priority. Always make sure the characters go through growth and learn from their mistakes.
The slow burn is key to second chance romances. Instead of a real villain, use family expectations or conflicting jobs to help that burn stoke the fire. Then you can’t forget about forgiveness. It needs to be a process they work through together.
With the ending, the characters have a sense that they can now move forward and handle conflict differently than the previous time.
Well that’s it for me today, continue on the hop to see what the incredible Leslie Hachtel has to say and grab her book Dream Dancer, HERE. Until next time!
Lady Bryce has a gift.
She can enter dreams and persuade her will onto others.
It has served her well, especially in eliminating unsatisfactory suitors of her father’s choosing.
But when she encounters Lord Rowland she wants him more than any-thing and decides to visit him in his sleep and make him desire her above all others.
As a virgin, she has discovered a diary from a leman who describes seduction in detail.
When she has driven Rowland to the edge of longing, she extracts a promise that he will marry her.
As time passes, Bryce and Rowland fall in love.
But will their love be able to conquer all once Bryce’s secret is revealed? Rowland must decide if he truly loves her or has been bewitched.
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