Passion

"It’s cheeky to pick one of your own books, but I’m so proud of this one, I have to say. I wanted to combine Persuasion by Jane Austen, which is my favourite story about love and second chances in life, with a really good chase story. I think I pulled it off! It’s the first book I wrote in six weeks and was completely happy with, barely changed a thing. I fell in love with the hero and he just swept me along. I love the idea of a woman who thinks that love has passed her by and she’s older and thinks her life is settled and it is what it is. Yes. I think it’s everybody at a certain age. And then an extreme circumstance happens. Her fiancé is executed and her ex-boyfriend has a Special Forces background and thinks somebody’s after her but he’s not in love with her anymore; he’s in love with somebody else. But he retains just enough feeling not to want her to get killed. So, to cut to the chase, they fall in love."