I just love writing about romance (see previous posts on why we crave romance and we are especially drawn to paranormal romance!).
One aspect of romance that is particularly compelling for me is that part of the story that rest in the first blush of connection, that fun, flirty place where lust and pheromones drive us into opening up in ways we don’t in other areas of our lives. In normal life, let’s face it – this can be an incredible, crazy and titillating time. But it is also often complicated, sometimes short-lived and disappointing, but we keep trying because we hold out hope that it will be what we are looking for at the end of the day.
Add in a little magic, some psychic powers and a world where the rules are a bit different than ours and there is so much more fun to be had!
In the paranormal, we have a free pass to explore the fantastical part of that spark of connection amplified in all kinds of interesting ways. I like to play with the edges of what that connection can be if there were no rules of reality to constrain it.
In the first novel in the Quytel Series Circle of Dreams, for example, the romance of my main characters, Bri and Cole, is set against a backdrop of our modern world – one in which shapeshifters, mages, and immortal warriors are hidden in plain sight as they live, work, and play among us. As Bri and Cole are drawn together by their overwhelming attraction to each other, they must also face a world that is full of dangers and wonders they never imagined existed, which gives their budding relationship a fantastical twist that threatens to destroy them both.
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