When I came up with the concept of pairing vices with their virtues, it was something I was excited to get started on. Opposites attracting offers so much material and opportunities for organic conflict to arise. It’s a romance writer’s catnip. At least it’s my catnip lol. 

I’m five books into the Love is Cure, Vol. 1 – Vices & Virtues series which is all about opposites attracting along with a few other tropes but pairing the vices with virtues is the core of this series, and soon it will have a new addition. 

Wrath, book six in the series, takes a very realistic approach to opposites attract. As with all the other vices and virtues, at the end of the stories, the virtues assist the characters who are self-sabotaging under their vices to reform, and they both get the bonus of love out of the deal. 

Wrath follows the same path when paired with patience. 

My new music reality show romance, One Mic, is set for release this Friday (3/29) and I’ve got the cast photos for you . 

Unknown fact… character names are the very last thing I choose when outlining a story. Sometimes the name changes while the story is being written. A lot of times, I’ll just use whatever name seems like it would fit the story at the time of writing. That’s why a lot of my side characters have similar names in different projects something I realize whenever I reread a story.

I’ve become more mindful of this naughty habit. By looking up names and purposefully not selecting names that sound like I’ve used them before in any of my 30+ projects, I’ve avoided this mistake. Names are still the least of my concern with a story unless the name contributes to the story in some way. Or I purposefully select the name. And that happened when I named my FMC Lauryn James’ name in my upcoming story, Wrath. 

I can’t believe I’m writing a blog post about the sixth book in a series I created . 

*Silent scream*

It feels like only yesterday I was announcing Pride’s (book one) release date. And now here we are five books later, and only one book (after Wrath is released) away from completing this series. 

Insane! 

I am so happy to share details about Wrath. There’s so much to discuss and so much ground to cover. I wanted to take a different approach with Wrath because this story differs from other books in my catalog. 

I’ve mentioned one character from Wrath, Lauryn, although she wasn’t mentioned by name. The mention was in a passage that appears in Envy (book four) in my Love is Cure, Vol. 1 – Vices & Virtues series. 

At first, Wrath was a story I dreaded telling, but over time, after developing the characters and finding another reason (albeit heartbreaking) to write this story, Wrath has easily become one of my favorite stories to tell in the series. 

The Concept