Please welcome my guest, Regina West. Regina
West comes from a long line of romance readers. Anytime her mother and
grandmother had a moment of quiet, they immersed themselves in whatever
paperback romance they’d picked up that week. So it is fitting that Gina has
chosen romance as her favorite genre for both reading and writing.
She
grew up in North Carolina, spent a few years moving around the U.S., but has
settled in beautiful Colorado. She spends her days working for a non-profit
organization and her evenings hanging out with her two smartypants boys. In the
middle, she manages to squeeze in writing, editing, classical guitar and
knitting. Currently, she’s working on a six-book paranormal romance series.
One
day, she hopes to leave winter behind forever and retreat to Tahiti to live in
a yurt and while away the hours writing and sipping umbrella drinks.
Last month, when my birthday rolled around, I gathered a
group of friends and headed off to see The
Fault in Our Stars. After two hours of tears and tissues, we sat outside
the nearby Coldstone to eat some frozen post-movie therapy and talk, which we
did for a crazy amount of time, like five hours. We went from crying to
laughing hysterically, and I was reminded once again how crucial the
friendships of these women are for me.
We ranged in age from 15 to 50. Between us, we had single
moms, women who had been happily married for decades, women who had taken major
risks with their careers, women who had made the difficult decision to follow personal,
unproven paths. We were a wealth of wisdom, life experience, and, best of all, femininity.
The same theme appears in my new novel The Long Way Home. It is a romance, so the relationship between the
two main characters, Twilah and Aidan, is the crucial one, of course. But
Twilah is also surrounded with rich, fulfilling female friendships just like
the ones I have in my own life. At one point in the book, she suddenly realizes
that these women have become her family, so much so that they sway her
decisions as much as Aidan does.
It was important to me that Twilah and her friends reflect
the unique bond that forms between women. While Aidan helps Twilah build a new
life, her friends make that life whole.
Blurb: Twilah Dunn has it all—an exciting
life in Los Angeles and a thriving ad agency she owns with her fiancé. Then she
learns that her estranged father has died and her business partner is sleeping
with her best friend. In one day, her perfect life unravels and the city she
calls home is now anything but.
She returns to her hometown in North
Carolina determined to sell her father's horse farm in order to buy back her
business from her cheating fiancé. But when she sees the farm’s dilapidated
state, she can’t bear the thought of selling it that way. Against all reason,
she puts her fast-paced, metropolitan life on hold and hires local cowboy Aidan
Perry to help restore the farm to its former glory. She’s heard the rumors of
his dark past, and she’s wary of mixing business with pleasure—again. But soon
she can’t keep her mind, or her hands, off of him.
Can Twilah push through her fear and
love Aidan? Will his past prove too dangerous? Has she really left LA behind or
will it continue to haunt her?
Buy Link: The Long Way Home
Regina can be found at any of the following:
Pandamoon
Publishing: http://pandamoonpublishing.com/pandamoon/index.html
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