Fire in the Wind

Jace was dead. Jace, whose love she had carried in her heart for ten long years. Vanessa had finally fulfilled her promise to come to him, but too late. Now she could never explain, never find the forgiveness she had yearned for all these years—never again experience the overwhelming love they had shared.

Jace's look-alike cousin Jake was willing to act as stand-in for her dead lover, and the fire he ignited in her might burn all her life... but what was in it for Jake? He wasn't pretending to forgive her for the fatal hurt she'd caused his cousin. Did he really want her? Or did he only want revenge?

ISBN: 978-1-78301-091-2

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Thank You.

Fire In The Wind

by

Alexandra Sellers

Dear Reader,

I had just delivered CAPTIVE OF DESIRE to my publisher, and was already embarked on writing a new book, when the trigger idea for FIRE IN THE WIND came to me: a man sees a woman across a room and embarks on a scheme of revenge. I liked it a lot, decided to write that story when I had finished the current one, and put it out of my mind. Or tried to.

One day, while I was sitting in my study working on that other book, Jake Conrad—there's no other way to put this—Jake Conrad kicked down the door of my study, stormed in and stood in front of my desk demanding that I tell his story
now
.

My study door was in fact physically open at the time. And of course Jake was not visible to the ordinary eye. But in some sense, because I was enclosed with my story, a door
was
shut—and it is that door that Jake kicked in. The impression of a discrete energy force bursting in on me was very strong. An energy with a personality, with wants and needs and a powerful determination, confronted me over my desk and made its demands. Even now I can flash back to that moment, to that space, and feel Jake's arrival again. And of all the time I spent writing in that particular study, all the words I wrote there, the thing I remember most clearly is the moment Jake kicked the door in.

Of course I gave in. A writer would be a fool to turn down the opportunity of such a direct connection with such a vibrant energy. So with permission from the characters in it, I put my other story to one side and started to write Jake's story. With what results you will see when you read FIRE IN THE WIND.

Although I always meet my characters during the writing of their story, I've never again had the pleasure of such a forceful meeting, nor, I think, the experience of so much controlled and specific energy, as I had with Jake Conrad arriving fully-formed and determined to live his resolution when the book was no more than an idea. And I have never found a satisfactory explanation for what happened that day.

I'm very grateful it happened, of course. And I hope you'll enjoy reading Jake's story. He's a powerful, wonderful... very driven guy.

Alexandra Sellers