Since I did Deep in the Woods last week, I think Fortune follows. 🙂
    She turned with a start to find a familiar set of dark eyes looking at her, then back down at her chart. The man from Masquerade was standing at the foot of her bed in a white lab coat. Shit.
    “So you really are a doctor.”
    “I don’t lie, Ekaterina. Ever. Yes, I am a doctor. A surgeon, actually, but let’s not quibble over terms.”
    Ekaterina. He knew her full name now, and god knew what else and he was looking down at her in full asshole-doctor mode. What the hell was his name again? Brian? Ryan? She gestured to her chart. “Why are you looking at that? That’s my private information.”
     “I’m the neuro specialist on call this morning, so for the moment you’re my patient.”
If you haven’t read the book, Ryan is a guy she met earlier at a nightclub. She scoffs and doesn’t believe him when he tells her he’s a brain surgeon. IÂ love this scene because I love to imagine her face at that moment. OMG, it’s actually him. Oh, crap…
Fortune wasn’t a planned sequel. Originally Ryan was just Dave’s friend who I needed in order to treat Sophie to a menage in Deep in the Woods. (Ooh, that was fun to write.)
But around that time my friend Audrey met a guy who was into both shibari and origami. This guy introduced me to the concept of the senbazuru, or 1000 cranes, showing me a photo of a miniature senbazuru he’d created inside a lamp as a wedding gift for his sister.
I started thinking about how a guy like that would have to be really good with his hands. I’d already made Ryan a neurosurgeon in Deep in the Woods and I thought, wow, a neurosurgeon would be good with his hands! Ryan’s going to be into origami and shibari and get his own book!
By that point, Deep in the Woods had already been contracted by Ellora’s Cave and was in the editing process, but I was able to introduce the origami crane into the scene where Ryan says farewell to Sophie, and a sequel was born.
Fortune was one of those magical books where everything came to me like a gift of the universe. I remember at one point bawling my eyes out and thinking, Wow, this is good, while I more or less took dictation from Ryan and Kat. It helped that Ryan and Kat were both clear as day in my mind as characters. I knew them inside and out. It was definitely one of those really easy books to write.
If you haven’t read Fortune, please give it a shot. It’s sexy, emotional, and explores some of the deepest themes of life. You can click the cover below for blurb, buy links, and reviews.
I liked this book because to me it paired the “wild child ” with the “staid ” Dr. who we know isn’t so staid at all.
Not sure why I like stories like this, oh and I did buy it because you wrote but I also liked the fact that she was Russian, something that you rarely see ina book when Fortune came out.
I love the scene on the dance floor, love a man in control.
Aw, thanks Maddie. I liked the odd couple pairing too. I also liked that Ryan had his crazy, wild side and then the control to sit and fold these little cranes (or do neurosurgery). I love contrasts, they’re so interesting. 🙂
Yeah he did. I tried origami (I worked at Michael’s) once got be a boat load of papers in various colors, textures and gave it up, fat fingers was the excused I give myself!
HAHA. Well, you know I tried to make my 1000 cranes and I’m still stalled out around the 500 mark. I have new respect for Ryan. it’s a lot of work!!
Ryan!
Wheee, I know you’re my Ryan lover. 🙂
Damn, I am in love with him!!!! I try not to be that kinda of girl who loves a fiction character, I fight against it,I truly do, but I can’t resist Ryan. Hahaha. To be fair Ryan is not the only reason Fortune is my favorite, Katya’s family is just adorable.
Oh, I loved Katya’s mom and dad so much. I should go back in time and write a story for them and how they met. Don’t know how I would add the BDSm though. HAHAHA!
I am a Dave lover but I loved the scene with him and sophie and ryan, so I just had to read Fortune. I didnt know what Shibari was so while reading the book, I wood look up images. It can be quite beautiful and elaborate. And that is how I would picture Ryan, making these elaborate time intensive beautiful creations. Interesting background on how you got ideas for this book, perhaps thats why your characters feel so real.
Yes, the whole shibari thing is a world unto itself. I have a couple friends who do the intricate stuff, and once at a play party I saw him tying up his partner and it wasn’t just the designs and knots he was doing with the rope–which were amazing, don’t get me wrong–but it was also the eye contact, the way he would brush his fingers across her skin, the whole energy between them. There was no way to watch and not be affected by it.
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