Extract: True Colours – Video 4
Listen to the beginning of my novel True Colours.
This is the last of four videos which introduces you to the characters and the story.
Could you ever trust again the man who broke your heart?
Kate Fenton thought she’d got the answer to the question all neatly sewn up. Ever since she went to Saul Preston’s London art gallery, a month before their wedding, and found him with his assistant – who looked as if she was in the middle of a game of strip poker.
Three years later, she’s no longer so sure. Saul’s back in her life with a new proposition…
Watch the first video
Listen to the beginning of my novel True Colours.
This is the third of four videos which introduces you to the characters.
Could you ever trust again the man who broke your heart?
Kate Fenton thought she’d got the answer to the question all neatly sewn up. Ever since she went to Saul Preston’s London art gallery, a month before their wedding, and found him with his assistant – who looked as if she was in the middle of a game of strip poker.
Three years later, she’s no longer so sure. Saul’s back in her life with a new proposition…
Watch the first video
Listen to an extract from my novel True Colours.
This is the second of four videos which introduces you to the characters and the story.
Could you ever trust again the man who broke your heart?
Kate Fenton thought she’d got the answer to the question all neatly sewn up. Ever since she went to Saul Preston’s London art gallery, a month before their wedding, and found him with his assistant – who looked as if she was in the middle of a game of strip poker.
Three years later, she’s no longer so sure. Saul’s back in her life with a new proposition…
Watch the first video
Listen to the beginning of my novel True Colours.
This is the first of four videos which introduces you to the characters.
Could you ever trust again the man who broke your heart?
Kate Fenton thought she’d got the answer to the question all neatly sewn up. Ever since she went to Saul Preston’s London art gallery, a month before their wedding, and found him with his assistant – who looked as if she was in the middle of a game of strip poker.
Three years later, she’s no longer so sure. Saul’s back in her life with a new proposition…
If only we could turn back time.
Am I the only one who secretly wishes that Ralph Fiennes had made it back to the cave to save the woman he loved, in The English Patient? Or that Juliet had been a little better at communicating her intentions to a love-struck Romeo? Where was that mobile when you needed one? Out of range, I hear you cry, not to mention still to be invented.
But what if it had been, and you had the chance to rewrite history? To send a text to the two ‘star-cross’d lovers’ of Verona? Or pluck Leo out of the freezing waters of the North Atlantic Ocean to spend the rest of his life with Kate?
After all, doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance? And so, true to my word, I’m doing just that. I’m writing a series where I’m giving my characters the chance to finally get it right. And first up is the story of a very determined young lady, called Kate.
She’s been through the mill, or any other contraption you might care to name. After all, it’s not every day that you discover your fiancé within groping distance of a pair of heaving breasts that aren’t yours. And she’s done the sensible thing, she’s sent him packing. Only now Saul’s back. And this time, it doesn’t look as though he’s going to take ‘no’ for an answer…
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Do you need to be tall, I hear you ask? Dark and handsome? Well, quite possibly. Successful in everything you do? (And I do mean everything!)
Or can you have a few flaws? To make you, how shall I put it, just that little bit more human? More believable? To enable you to grow, as the story grows? And you find yourself clearing every hurdle I can create on your way to happiness – with the woman of your dreams?
You’ll be glad to know I’m not as prescriptive as I used to be. When I first read ‘Gone with the Wind’, at the tender age of 11, I was horrified to learn that Rhett Butler had a moustache. Facial hair – eek! How could anyone cope with that? Then, of course, a few years later I saw the film and I was bewitched, beguiled and not at all bothered by such minor details. He could have had a beard too, and I would have begged him to turn round and tell me that quite frankly, he did give a damn, that tomorrow was in fact today, and that today he would stay with me for all eternity.
But I digress. I still need a hero for my first book. And I’m sure you’re getting impatient. So, after very careful consideration, I choose Saul Preston.
Yes, he’s tall. Yes, he’s dark and handsome. Or, rather, he is to my heroine, Kate. He’s also rather successful. He owns an art gallery in the West End of London, as well as being the managing director of an aircraft leasing company. But he’s human. He has pride, and it’s got him into rather a pickle with the lady he loves. Actually more like a whole jar full of pickles, but now, three years later, he’s finally got an opportunity to retrieve the situation. To show her his ‘True Colours’ and be the hero of her dreams.
Do not despair, though, all you hopeful heroes out there. I’ll be back, soon, with book number two!
If you’d like to share with me what you think makes the perfect hero, I’d love to hear from you.
Who knows, we just might have the same dream…