#Heartreads: His Secondhand Wife

It was an honor when His Secondhand Wife received a RITA nomination from Romance Writers of America the year it was published. I was delighted with the recognition. This story went through a couple of revisions in the brainstorming and plotting process. It started out as Darlin' Katie, then A Choice of the Heart and once finished and ready for publication got its final title.

The original version suffered from too much plotting, which my wonderful editor pointed out. It was always a beauty and the beast story and a marriage of convenience, but Kate's backstory took some figuring out.

My early notes include things like:

• his sense of duty
• what can she do to show him she's valuable?
• she makes him see things in color
• "you're thinking," she says all the time
• she needs to be needed
• the step-monster is a big problem
• he'd never been this vulnerable before

As always, I had a list of 25 things that could happen.

There are three stories in this Copper Creek Brides series, though Harlequin wouldn't agree to put a series label on the books:

1. Sweet Annie
2. His Secondhand Wife
3. Almost a Bride (novella in Wed Under Western Skies)

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Here's a link to His Secondhand Wife on Goodreads. Thank you!

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