![]() ![]() ![]() Then in a bookstore one day, I saw a display of non-fiction books about angels. So, the story stayed in the wardrobe of my mind for a long time – taken out occasionally to think about, but nothing more. I wanted this to be an action-packed, epic story, but also essentially a romance. If Alex was a real-life hit man, then a happy ending wouldn’t be very likely! And I like happy endings. Though I kept writing snippets of the story (it nagged and nagged at me, really wanting to be told!), I knew that the premise as it stood wouldn’t work. I loved the feel of this, but that was as far as I got for several years. The two of them join forces instead, and fall in love. Once I had that, I had the rough premise of the story: suddenly I knew that Willow had psychically seen something that she shouldn’t have, and Alex was the teenaged hit man hired to kill her. Then her name changed to Willow, and I realised that not only was she psychic, but that she loved tinkering around with cars. Willow came to me at the same time that Alex first did – her name was Jhia at that point – but she didn’t feel fully formed until I started thinking about a contemporary storyline. He refused to go away, in fact! And over the years, I began to wonder about redoing his story completely, and placing him in a contemporary setting. Nothing came of that particular novel, but Alex always stayed with me. He first came to me as a character almost twenty years ago, when he was a thief in a fantasy setting – an expert with knives rather than guns. ![]()
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