Okay, some interesting factoids about Forever Again in list form! ( I have somehow utterly destroyed my right shoulder chipping ice and I can barely operate my mouse. I have to scrunch down and over like a drunken Quasimodo just to be able to type. I’m also heavily medicated and reek of BenGay.)

1. Forever Again was one of the four launch titles for Samhain Publishing back in January of 2006. I was—and still am—pretty damn proud of that, if I do say so myself. In an e-world dominated by envelope-pushing sex, Samhain’s embracing of my sweet secret baby book proved they really are all about the story.

2. I named the hero’s fiance, Kristen, after a girl who was my nemesis way back in my early years (we’re talking 5, 6 years old here) with the intention of totally emotionally eviscerating her. But Kristen the character grabbed hold of me and wouldn’t let me do that to her. She’s a good woman and, though I had to make her cry a little, in my mind she’s living happily ever after right now.

3. The hero’s last name is my brother’s first name—Ryan. I don’t think I could write a romance featuring a guy with that first name whispering naughty things in his heroine’s ear, so this was my compromise.

4. Though it’s not said in the book, Forever Again is set in my town. The bed and breakfast is right down the street. We’ve eaten breakfast almost every Sunday at the little restaurant where Gena and Jill have their fries. I can the little park where Travis saw his daughter for the first time from the end of my driveway.

5. To this day I am awed by the cover. I sent in the standard form full of rambling character descriptions and plot points and the secret baby thing and what the inn looked like and :blah: But when I saw this cover I knew it was absolutely perfect. The three Adirondack chairs just captured the story for me.

He stood and started pacing the length of the room. An image of Mia doing the same superimposed itself in her mind and her throat swelled. How could her daughter be so much like this man she didn’t even know?

“Her name is Mia? She’s fifteen?”

“Mia Dawn Taylor,” Gena said softly. “Yes, she’s fifteen, and yes—she’s yours. Where did you see her?”

“Downtown. I was sitting on a park bench and she was walking toward me with a friend. It took me a second to realize she looks just like my mother, and then it all clicked.”

“The reason I told her last night was because I’d already decided to tell you. I just had to tell her first, and she asked for a little time to take it all in before I did.”

“You’re fifteen years too late,” he snapped.

Gena stood so she could face him eye to eye. “What difference would it have made if I had told you then? You made it perfectly clear you didn’t want us.”

“No…I didn’t want you.” He turned and left without seeing the hurt in Gena’s eyes.

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