What Do These Books Have in Common???

Okay, really, they all have something in common. One is a western time travel ghostly romance, one a medieval Highland romance, one a vampire romance, one a werewolf romance about a werewolf and a human woman, and another about a werewolf and a woman who's not exactly all human.

What do they have in common? The title of the one reveals it all: FORBIDDEN LOVE.

I was talking about conflict in a workshop with one of my students about Forbidden Love and how it starts out with a prologue because I couldn't show the love the hero and heroine have for each without showing their beginning.

And that got me to thinking about how so many of my books have that theme: forbidden love.

Even Winning the Highlander's Heart has that same notion where the Highland lady is to be wed to a Norman lord of the king's choosing, but a Highlander wants her for his own instead, losing his heart could mean losing his head, literally.

Why does forbidden love seem to work so well in stories? Immediate conflict. Mom and Dad are against the marriage--hmm, instant desire to marry anyway.

The king will off their heads...it doesn't matter. And truly, there were a number of true cases over the centuries where queens did die and their lovers murdered because of infidelities, so it's not just a case of pure fantasy.

But for pure fantasy, it's fun to create stories where the poor hero and heroine should not fall in love--vampire vs huntress, a roguish Highlander and a demure English lady, the cop and the prisoner, the wolf and the human, the jaguar and the human...oh yeah, bring on the forbidden love!