Strong, tough-minded women hold tough jobs – jobs typically held by men in the stereotypical world. These days, those genre rolls are being broken, and in my fictional world they’re shattered by characters like Charlotte Caissie from my “By Moonlight” series. A hard-as-nails New Orleans detective, she stands as an equal with partners both on the streets she defends and with the one who shares her life after hours. But a strong alpha male like Max Savoie can find it hard to relinquish that role of protector when it comes to the woman he loves in my W.I.P. RISE BY MOONLIGHT.
Oh no he didn’t play that ‘Little Woman’ card! We’ll see where it gets him in next week’s snippet. And in the meantime, I’ve reached the halfway point in my manuscript through no little struggle. YeaaAAaaah! For more on that, visit my post We Never Talk Anymore on Paranormal Romantics.
“Got a break in the case tonight.”
His fond gaze narrowed into glittery emerald slits as he sketched his thumb along a small bruise darkening the side of her face. “At no little cost, I’m guessing.”
“To us, no,” she assured him, catching his hand for a tender squeeze, “but to his employers, plenty.”
Treading carefully where their work was concerned was an unspoken rule, since straying into areas of conflicting interest had a bad habit of creating strained, or worse, estranged bedfellows, but Cee Cee’s hesitation set all his warning bells clamoring like a Sunday steeple.
“Am I allowed to know what it involves, Detective?”
Cee Cee shrugged off his smooth prompt to insist, “Nothing out of the ordinary.”
“Cher, your definition of ordinary encompasses a wealth of things that make my blood run cold.”
Laugh husky as her dark eyes flashed up to flirt with his, she teased, “Max, you’re the most hot-blooded man I know, and nothing scares you.”
“Except,” he drawled out low and lethal, “the thought of you in danger . . . especially now.”
Lots going on these last few weeks. Several writing escapes to get the creative juices flowing again (it WORKED!) Here I am at last weekend’s day long keyboard frenzy with seven awesome author pals.
Besides writing, I’ve made a cathartic decision to leave my job at a high-end (high stress), great pay and benefits (and great people) law firm to return to my roots with a small office doing family and criminal law, and swapping my contentious relationship with frantic data entry for the personal client contact I enjoy. I think that has a lot to do with my sudden burst of writing progress (see above link to PNR post). I’ll be tying up loose ends this week and moving to that new beginning on the first Monday of August. Soooo, I’m picking up momentum and feel like my favorite Aerosmith song from early college days . . . This train will keep rollin’!
Happy Weekend and Happy Writing, fellow Warriors!!
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