Flashback: Lantern

When I told Charlie and Hailey’s store in JUST TELL HER, I introduced Summer Taft, Emma Colton, and Lena Tanner. Emma was Hailey’s first girlfriend. Summer almost hooked up with Charlie, but didn’t. And Lena dated Charlie very briefly. When I had the idea to write another book in what would then become the Chicago Series, I decided that it would be Summer’s book.

That was usually how it happened for me back then. I pick one character I want to write about, and it becomes their book before it ha...