I Loved A Rogue by Katharine Ashe is the third book in a trilogy but it touched me the most, with the vicar’s daughter going with the heartbreaker who left years ago to investigate her family mysteries. Daphne and Rupert’s relationship engages you emotionally because Rupert does everything in his power to not only keep Daphne safe but also make her feel safe.ģ. When it’s good, it’s good, and Daphne breaking Rupert out of prison to go on an Egyptian artifact hunt with her is pure gold.
Impossible by Loretta Chase gets compared to The Mummy movie often and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. The dialogue and the comedy struck a strong It Happened One Night chord with me.Ģ. These are two adults who are set on their own path and we come along with their story when their paths cross. Reading A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare is like drinking a fizzy pink Moscato, you root for Minerva to make it to her paleontology convention with the help of the hopeless cad, Colin. We can talk about the books that I return to repeatedly for the fun of it though, because these books give me that thing I need most: escape. I’ve carried a copy of that novel around with me for decades, it’s one of my all-time comfort reads and I don’t have the words to really sum up how I feel about that book. What books inspired me to write about Cress and Dev? Before I dive into the books I would love for you to read, I want to note that I’m not going to touch Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale in this post. What Cress really does is break out of the life she had to seek out something better, the adventure she deserved. First, she gets waylaid by Dev while he’s a highwayman, then she has to hire Dev to break her brother out of prison. My favorite runway romances inspired me to write about my own runaway heroine, Cress Darewood. The wonderful thing about our digital age is that you can find those great books you read when you were fifteen and relive that adventure over and over again.
The historical context makes it more interesting because it was completely unacceptable a century ago for a woman to take off with a man she barely knows. When she makes that decision and leaves with the hero, I have to keep going to find out what happens next. I connect with the heroine right away because I grew up in a small town and constantly dreamed of running off. That’s why when I find a book where the heroine takes off with the bad boy, I’m hooked. Who hasn’t had that day when you look around and go, “I’ve got to get away.” I understand why a person would want to though. Also, growing up, every boy I knew went to my church. I never ran off with the bad boy, which comes more from a lack of inclination than anything else.
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