Every book I write is special for one reason or another. I wouldn’t invest the time in creating if I didn’t love the characters or the hook. A Promise Kept is special for several reasons:
- While written as a Heartsong Presents originally, we flipped the story, by starting with a wedding. Usually those books ended with the wedding, but this time my editor and I wanted to try something different. Could we make a book that was engaging and romantic if the couple married at the beginning? That’s what I did with Josie and Art’s story in A Promise Kept.
- The WWII thread was inspired by an exhibit at the Imperial War Museum I almost didn’t walk through on children evacuated out of London during WWII. My husband and I were in London for our tenth anniversary and were meeting another couple later that day. We were done at the museum — we thought — when I saw a book in the museum’s store that had me racing to an exhibit. It was all about the evacuating of children out of the city…and imagine my surprise and delight when I realized children had been evacuated to Ohio! It became the perfect WWII tie for this book.
- It also deals with an issue that has been largely silent, but is becoming more acknowledged: miscarriage — it’s my love letter to women who have walked through that while also trying to shine light on the silent grief I and other women have experienced.
If you’ve never read A Promise Kept, this is your invitation.
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This series looks wonderful, I love your legal thrillers. I’ll have to check these out, thank you.