“Rosie knew that she had said some things to him in anger, things that she regretted now. When she had asked him to leave her alone, she had not meant it in the way that he had taken it. But it seemed that he was too proud to reach out to her or too ashamed of her to even consider trying to make things right between them. She knew that he would never have chosen her as a wife if it were not for the horrible incident at the Sunderland Ball . . .”
Tag: Historical romance
Dinner scenes make me so hungry!
One thing I’ve noticed in historical romance novels is that the female main character rarely has a healthy appetite. Why is that? An author can describe a meal where course after succulent course is brought to the table, yet our heroine either has no appetite or has quickly lost it and ends up pushing food around her plate. Don’t these scenes make you hungry?
I confess that when I read these passages, I cringe. I want her to eat to her full and savor every bite and forget all the silly conversations that make her so nervous. Gorge yourself, girl!
Instead, she picks and prods at her food, sometimes not taking a single bite of a meal that sounds heavenly. This is the norm.
Just another little detail I never fail to notice.
I wanted more Figaro in the story!
“Figaro’s attention quickly shifted to the miniature wooden horse he had found in the nursery. He nudged her side in a gentle demand for attention, and she dropped to the floor beside him, the skirt of her pale green day dress billowing around her. Laughing, she attempted to wrestle the toy from his jaws.”
Excerpt From: Dee Harper Lewis. “A Misalliance with Love.”
Choosing a location
‘The world of the Fens unfolded in a tranquil symphony of blues, silvers, and greens under a canopy of blue sky.’
It was difficult to choose a location for Castle Holme in A Misalliance with Love. I wanted somewhere that felt remote and abandoned yet close enough to a large town and not too difficult to reach from London. It should be easily reachable by the male main character, Sinclair, yet remote enough for the female main character, Rosie, to feel lonely and abandoned. The Fens in Cambridgeshire felt remote and ‘otherworldly’ and beautiful in all seasons.
DEE HARPER LEWIS 