My second guest today is Mills and Boon Medical author, Fiona Lowe! We met online at the beginning of the year and then met for real at the Perth Roadshow back in May which was awesome! And also - Happy Anniversary Fiona! It was five years ago today that she got the Call from London saying they wanted to buy her book!!!
Over to you, Fiona!
I’m so excited to be here and part of Christina’s FORBIDDEN party!!!!
The word Forbidden according to the dictionary is prohibited, banned, outlawed, taboo, out of bounds…you get the picture, and it conjures up so many different reactions. For some it’s ‘OK, forbidden, can’t go there, can’t do that, phew, good.” For others it’s ‘Forbidden is it? Why? What are they trying to hide from me, keep from me, deny me, that’s it, I’m in, I want it and I want it NOW.’
When I wrote Her Brooding Italian Surgeon, I didn’t realize I was writing a book with ‘forbidden’ as one of the themes but while writing this blog I realised that it is very much part of the book. Abbie has made Bandarra home, trying to forget her past and start over with a new and sparkly life with no mistakes in it. When Leo Costa strides into her hospital and starts trying to throw his weight around, the bad memories of dark haired, dark eyed, charismatic men in her life come flooding back.
Leo is everything Abbie knows she should avoid. Everything she has vowed to avoid. To her he is forbidden and initially that is a huge relief to her. She retreats from him, happily knowing that to retreat is safety and safety is what she needs.
Leo Costa’s famous Italian charm has never failed him before and when he meets Abbie, he expects her to fall at his feet like most women have done before her. But Abbie is unwittingly giving off an aura of being ‘out of bounds and unavailable.’ What she thinks is safety is actually the complete opposite. Never tell an alpha male he can’t have something! Leo sees forbidden fruit as a challenge and as Mark Twain so aptly said, "There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
So where do you fall on the forbidden scale? Do you find it a totally irresistible force or are you happy to have a decision made for you? Or perhaps your reaction depends on the circumstances?
Christina will choose a winning comment and I will post you a copy of Her Brooding Italian Surgeon.
Fiona Lowe writes for Harlequin Mills & Boon Medical Romance and Her Brooding Italian Surgeon is her 12th novel. For more information on the story visit http://www.fionalowe.com. When Fiona’s not writing you can find her on Facebook and Twitter
Thank you, Fiona, and I love that Mark Twain quote, it really sums up the irresistibility (is that even a word? It should be!) of the forbidden. So, to be in the running to win Fiona's wonderful book, are you happy to have a decision made for you or do you find it a totally irresistible force? Or does it all depend?
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