![]() The original triggers or inspiration points for the story: And sometimes that’s a hard lesson to learn. What does it really mean to love someone? Ultimately, it means to love someone more than you love yourself. ![]() But at the heart of it, The Taker is an examination of what love really is. So there are clever women, and handsome, strong-willed, dashing men there are isolated towns and lavish mansions where anything can happen. The Taker is a very romantic story, but darkly romantic, more like Wuthering Heights, Far From the Madding Crowd or The Portrait of Dorian Gray. I think there’s a lot that will appeal to romance readers. ![]() ![]() But eventually, the tide draws out what it has swept in.”īesides a compelling story, what else in The Taker will appeal especially to romance readers? We-or maybe it was just I-bandaged our needs with what we declared to be love. “Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our souls, the way the tide rushes in sand to fill the crevices of a rocky shore. A six-word memoir for your protagonist, Lanny McIlvrae: An impetuous girl who loved unwisely. ![]()
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