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How do you balance suspense, romance and mystery
in a novel?
To USA Today bestselling novelist
Jacqueline Diamond, a book of romantic suspense should fulfill the
reader’s expections on many levels, with the added enjoyment of
surprise twists. Plots should grow out of circumstances and develop
as the characters react to the situation.
In One Husband Too Many, a woman about to
divorce her spouse is thrown back in time and meets him in an
earlier part of his life, discovering that he isn’t the man
thought she knew. In His Secret Son, a man is shocked to find
he’s a father, while in The Stolen Bride, the hero rescues
a woman he once loved from a web of lies that nearly sent her down
the aisle with the wrong man. In each case, the hero and heroine
fall in love while facing danger. |
Why do some romantic suspense novels include
paranormal elements?
Fantastical elements such as ghosts, premonitions
and curses have figured in the romance genre for more than a century.
In classic Gothic romances, such as Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, such elements contribute
to an emotional, moody atmosphere and a feeling of suspense.
Jacqueline Diamond’s Touch Me in the Dark combines a popular
haunted house theme with an ongoing mystery, while a vulnerable
heroine and a wounded hero find love together.
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His
Secret Son. The son he never knew about is in deadly danger,
and so is the boy's mother. Kindle,
Kobo,
Apple,
Smashwords,
Nook,
Googleplay
Audiobook
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One
Husband Too Many. An
amulet sends her back in time... to the wrong man! Or is he? Kindle,
Nook,
Apple, Kobo,
Googleplay, Smashwords.
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