It's finally finished. I can't tell you how long I've been playing with this book. Years, definitely. I'd pull it out, write a bit, and stick it back into my "later" file. The technical aspects of the book kept tripping me up.
I started off researching reasons women fail to orgasm. While informative, they didn't really stir my creative juices. It wasn't until I found and listened to the book, Sex Without Stress by Jessa Zimmerman, that my story gained traction.
Let's face it, in the majority of today's romances, the hero is the Don Juan of lovers. The sex is so good the heroine can't spread her legs quickly enough. Sounds crude but there you have it.
I'm not saying it's wrong. Like many others, I read romance for its fantasy aspects. Handsome hero? Check. Fantastic lover? Double check. Only has eyes for the heroine? But of course, otherwise, why am I reading it?
But what if being multi-orgasmic has gotten, dare I say, boring? What if sex in romances got a reality check? What if instead of being over the top, sex with the hero was nice, pleasant --like slipping into a hot bath at the end of a hard day --and you were fine with that until suddenly, you weren't?
This is the situation in which my heroine finds herself. It's not that she isn't happy with her love life. She's curious if there's more, but it's not a subject she wants to broach with her husband because, you know, fragile male egos and all of that. However, Grant finds out and now they both have to deal with the fallout.
There are no reviews yet, but I asked my beta readers what they thought of it. Here are a few of their comments:
"I was skeptical when I first started but as the book went on I got involved with the characters. I got mad, sad and overall glad by the end."
"I think it’s an ‘out of the box’ type of romance. It has the heat from a traditional romance but in a realistic way and covers a topic you don’t see often in this genre."
I enjoy reading about realistic characters. The fact this solid couple had and overcame a common struggle but rarely talked about may be encouraging to "real" couples out there with same issue.
Ignite Her Fire is available in English and German at your favorite retailers. Or you can win one of 20 copies via my Goodreads Giveaway.
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