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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

@ReadingRomances #HappyEndings 5 HEA in a menage

How do you find the logical happy ending for a menage? I write historicals, and while there is a better understanding for people living with each other, when one of them gets married what do you do? How many times can the lonely friend move in with the happy couple?

Money is a good excuse, but how often can that be the reason?

In a contemporary? Forget it, tongues will wag! But it's important for all three people in the menage to find happiness, contentment, and sexual gratification. Traveling, even between apartments or houses, gets old. Fast. They all have to (and want to!) live together.

Once I wanted to make a secret entrance between adjoining townhouses, but I never wrote it in. You have to be inventive! In Seduction of a Proper Lady, I gave one of the heroes the cover story that he'd been horribly injured in the Napoleonic Wars rendering him a eunuch. He lived with the captain and best friend he'd saved, and everyone praised the BFF for taking in the wounded warrior. Of course he didn't have a scratch, but it was a hell of an excuse!

What's a creative way you'd have a menage living together in both an historical and a contemporary?




Happy endings romance giveaway hop

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Tell your happy ending story!

The Happy Endings Giveaway Hop was organized by Reading Romances!
What you can win here: $10 electronic gift card to either Amazon or Barnes and Noble and a copy of Seduction of my Proper Wife: A Victorian Menage at the Parisian Exposition
Number of winners: 3
Open to (INT, US or US/CAN): If you can receive an e-gift card then you can enter!
How to enter: Leave a comment on how you've ever been tricked into thinking a book was a romance with a Happy Ending. If you decide to follow this blog or me on Twitter, you get extra entries in the gift card pot.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2013 at 6:50 AM

    I've never been tricked by a book- I'm pretty good at picking up on the clues (and, honestly, I like depressing endings so I guess that wouldn't be so bad).

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  2. Mary PrestonJanuary 24, 2013 at 7:29 AM

    Sometimes a cover can be deceptive.

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