In Too Deep by Elly Redding
Thank you so
much, Ellesea, for inviting me to write a blog post. I thought I’d
tell you a little about myself and my passion for writing second
chance romances.
It all started a few years ago now, when I was a teenager and had
just finished reading ‘Gone With The Wind’. 1024 pages and no
happy ending? I was desperate. Something had to be done. And before
I knew it, I’d rewritten those final pages half a dozen times in my
head. I was a fledgling author, full of enthusiasm, but lacking in
about everything else. Undeterred, I went on to rework Little Women
(where Jo ended up with Laurie) and Wuthering Heights.
It was only after
the birth of my first child, some years later, that I started writing
with a view to actually getting published. My daughter was
delightful in so many ways, but she was a very slow feeder. So there
I’d be, sitting on a sofa, thinking of all the things I should be
doing, when it suddenly dawned on me there was one thing I could do.
I had one hand free (very important) and my brain was still active
(despite those hormones) and so I created ‘The Trials of Barney and
the Hopeless Detective.’ I received such lovely rejections, that I
began to wonder if there might, just might, one day, be a chance of
success.
Winding on a
decade or two, whizzing past the time when I had a London agent for
my screenplays (so exciting), to the day when I decided I would write
a novel for grownups. A story with romance at its heart. After all,
isn’t that what makes the world go around? Our boundless capacity
to love? Added to the fact that I’ve been hooked on the romantic
element of any story since, well, forever, whether it is Tom Hanks
and Meg Ryan in ‘You’ve got Mail’ or Sandra Bullock and Ryan
Reynolds in ‘The Proposal’.
And what could be
better than a story that gives our protagonists a second chance to
make it work – a second chance romance? ‘True Colours’ was
drafted, then redrafted, and then reworked again. I worked with a
brilliant editor and was absolutely thrilled when I won The New
Talent Award at the Festival of Romance. It also gave me the push I
needed to get it published.
And here I am,
three years later, having just published my second novel, ‘In Too
Deep’. A story of two thwarted lovers, it is set in the rolling
hills of Devon, and tells the tale of one woman’s determination to
win the trust of the man she’s adored since they were thrown
together as children, by forcing him to confront the darkness of his
long-lost past.
I do hope you
will enjoy reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. After
all, doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance to have their dreams
come true?
One little lie. A guilty secret. And the man she mustn’t love…
It’s been six years since Isy Forrester left home. In that time, she’s strived to forge a new life for herself in London, away from Jack Mancini, her father’s adopted son, and his devastating betrayal of everything she thought they had.
Only now her father’s in hospital, and the house that’s been in her family for generations is at risk. Forced to return to Devon, she finds Jack as infuriating and stubborn as ever, and just as irresistible. Soon she realises the bright lights of London can’t hold a candle to him.
But Jack has a past, one which he refuses to share with her. And until he can trust her with these deepest secrets, how can she risk her heart? How can she even begin to help him, when he won’t tell her what happened all those years ago – before her father brought him home to Hambledon Hall?
Born in London, she now divides her time, with her husband, between Bedfordshire and Devon, where she loves art, dancing and watching the waves.
Elly is a member of the Society of Authors and Alliance of Independent Authors, and would love to hear from you. She can be found @ellyredding on Twitter, Elly Redding Author on Facebook and Elly Redding on Instagram.
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*Terms and Conditions –UK entries welcome. Please enter using the Rafflecopter box below. The winner will be selected at random via Rafflecopter from all valid entries and will be notified by Twitter and/or email. If no response is received within 7 days then Rachel’s Random Resources reserves the right to select an alternative winner. Open to all entrants aged 18 or over. Any personal data given as part of the competition entry is used for this purpose only and will not be shared with third parties, with the exception of the winners’ information. This will passed to the giveaway organiser and used only for fulfilment of the prize, after which time Rachel’s Random Resources will delete the data. I am not responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.
