A Spanish Honeymoon (Harlequin Large Print (Numbered Paperback)) [Large Print] (Mass Market Paperback)

A SPANISH HONEYMOON is the launch title in a new series. Instead of being about a stately home, its location is a Spanish village.

It's also twelve years since I started spending most of the winter months in a very small pueblo in the backwoods of Spain. But Valdecarrasca, the village in A SPANISH HONEYMOON, is a fictional place inspired by many real villages. From each I've borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create a place that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain I know best.

The second book in the series, THE MAN FROM MADRID, is written, and at present I'm planning the third. It may be that this new series will stretch to many more books than the Longwarden series.Those three novels, FLORA, ALL MY WORLDLY GOODS and TIME AND CHANCE totalled 600,000 words. I'd have to write 12 romances set in Valdecarrasca to match that.

The launch title is the story of Liz Harris, a young widow who, to escape from her unhappy past, buys a small house in Valdecarrasca and inherits the task of looking after the garden of a large neighbouring house. The absentee owner of the garden is Cameron Fielding, a famous war reporter for television who has the reputation of being "as attractive as the devil and totally without morals."

Her first encounter with her charismatic neighbour seems to confirm all the worst rumours about him, making Liz determined to resist if he tries to charm her. However, to her astonishment, Cam doesn't want an affair with her. For practical reasons, he thinks they should marry.

The "marriage of convenience" is one of the classic themes of romantic fiction. Several times in my long career I've found it an interesting challenge to make such a nonsensical-sounding plot believable and convincing in a contemporary setting.

When I gave pre-publication copies of A SPANISH HONEYMOON to women friends who live in Spain but don't normally read romances, they expressed surprise that the story contains several more explicit love scenes than they expected
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But if a novel includes a honeymoon, even when the honeymooners are not lovers in the conventional sense, it's essential to show how they come to terms with each other sexually. Not to do so would be a cheat which the reader would rightly resent. The days when chapters ended with the closing of the bedroom door, or a line of dots, are long gone

Of course, as everyone who enjoys romantic fiction knows, there is always happy ending lined up for the principal characters, no matter how many difficulties they have to overcome to reach it. In the case of Liz and Cam, despite the physical rapport achieved on their honeymoon, there are several more problems to solve before all is well
[See also this author's innovative Web-illustrated romance SEA CHANGE]. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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