The Move

Chapter 16 has so much emotion. (Click here for Controversy, Chapter 16.)

When watching movies, I find goodbye scenes so much sadder than death scenes.

Uprooting Brad from Jackson Bend after all these years was tough to do, but that's where the story is going. I hated doing it to Jakob and Lance so many years ago, but — that's life. So often, job opportunities or family dictate people we love have to move. It's hard.

I probably could have stretched this one into two chapters (throw in some more sex here, more dialogue there), but I didn't mind letting the chapter expand from summer to the holidays to a new year. The previous chapter was six months long, so this one being about eight isn't that radical of a departure.

This chapter's emphasis was on a new start for our couple. Saying goodbye to what they knew and beginning fresh. My own husband had to make that move to be with me so long ago. (We are a rare example of a long-distance relationship actually working out.)

Of course, there's yet again another three-way. Full disclosure, I have no more plans of writing another one. That' not to say I have all subsequent books figured out, but ... nothing in my mind moves the plot because of one. This one I needed. The three in Book Ten each had their own plot point, even if the first one with Topher and Nolan was to get Brad out of his funk. Aside from the Prince songs, maybe that can be this book's niche as well. Ha.

And if I haven't disclosed this before, no, I have never been in one.

I've never really had readers voice their opinions on them one way or another ("I like the monogamous couples" vs. "totally fucking hot, man"). When writing ten novels, it helps an author to have some aspect of variety with the expected sexual content.

Aaaaaaand ... then there's the bar scene. Stay tuned.