As for his appeal – is there anything more romantic than a man who, by virtue of falling in love with a woman, comes to hold himself to a higher standard in order to be worthy of her? The sexiest bad boys don’t get reformed they are inspired, by love, to reform themselves. Your heroes are deliciously, irresistibly dark – what do you think it is about twisted bad boys heroes that readers seem to love?Ī dark heart, dirty mind, and dangerously sharp intellect: this recipe always makes a complex, swoonworthy man. Add a hefty dose of globe-spanning danger, and I cannot think of a more gripping setting for an unfolding romance! The art world has long been steeped in money, power, scandal, glamor, and corruption.
What made you choose such a glamorous location for the heart of these stories? LADY BE GOOD and LUCK BE A LADY are set at Everleigh’s Auction Rooms in London. Once I’d dreamed up these two opposites – the Prince of Light and the Prince of Darkness, as it were – their respective heroines also came to mind, fully and vividly realized. What if the golden boy – England’s hero, the man whom everyone adores, and who can do no wrong – actually has a very dark secret driving him, which threatens to corrupt him entirely?Īnd what if the absolute villain – a dark, dangerous underworld crime lord – actually hides a heart of gold beneath his fearsome façade? My next two books in the Rules for the Reckless series emerged from a game of ‘What if?’ When not studying, doing fieldwork in India, or working on her next novel, Meredith can be found in the library, browsing through travelogues written by intrepid Englishwomen of the nineteenth century.Can you tell us a little bit about your two magnificent back-to-back Rules for the Reckless novels?
Now a doctoral student in anthropology, she is happy to report that all three goals have become her favorite things to do. At thirteen years old, she made a list of life goals that included writing romance novels, trying sushi, and going to London to see Holbein’s portrait of Anne Boleyn. Meredith Duran grew up enamored of British history.
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