Guest Post and Giveaway: Jessica Clare (Jill Myles)

Please join me in welcoming Jessica Clare (Jill Myles) to Debbie's Book Bag today. Jessica is guest posting today to promote her latest book, The Girls Guide to (Man) Hunting. I asked Jessica why she chose revenge as a motive for her book and this is what she had to say. The publisher is sponsoring a giveaway for one copy of Jessica's book, see details at the end of the post. 

Why Revenge?

There’s something so delicious about a role reversal in romance. We don’t think twice if a hero is a rake and sleeps around. We don’t think anything of it if he’s had several failed relationships. And the hero going after sexy revenge on the heroine? That’s a pretty standard plot. 

But it’s always a different story when it’s the heroine. And it’s especially different when it’s a Southern heroine. I’m from the South myself, born and raised. And there’s a very common expectation about Southern women – that we should be polite, gracious, charming, and genteel at all times.

How freaking boring.

I first had the idea for Miranda Hill when brainstorming with a friend. In my mind, Miranda was stuck in her small Texas town. While there’s a lot of good things about living in a small town, there are also a lot of bad things. Like gossip. And I wanted Miranda to suffer from gossip. What better than a set of dirty photos and a legendary ex-boyfriend? Her bad reputation was certainly cemented by that. It’s not easy to ignore gossip about someone when you run into them every day, after all.

And in my mind, Miranda was going to fall back in love with that first boyfriend. I’d never done a reunited couple story before and wanted to try it out. But when I played out scenarios between Miranda and her hero, Dane, things weren’t going as planned. 

Every scenario I could think of involved Miranda being spitting mad at him. Why would she ever talk to this man again? He’d ruined her life.

Cue the female rake plot. Miranda’s not really a rake – but she’s so single-minded and determined in her decision to get back at Dane that she’ll use every weapon in her arsenal. Seducing him is all part of her grand plan to ruin his life like he ruined hers. It was really fun to twist the trope a little and make the heroine the seducer with revenge in mind, rather than the hero. And it was really fun to write Miranda’s seductive attempts to get Dane’s attention (not all of them successful) on a wilderness survival trip when Dane’s supposed to be doing anything but paying attention to her.

But somehow, they can’t manage to keep their hands off of each other.

Anyhow, it was a blast to write. Female rakes? Girls with revenge on their minds? Lots of hot sex? Sounds like fun to me.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

The publisher is sponsoring a giveaway for one copy of The Girls Guide to (Man) Hunting by Jessica Clare. 

WARNING: This book is an erotic romance and not appropriate for readers under 18 years of age.

~ You must be a GFC follower or E-mail subscriber to participate.

~ US and Canadian Addresses only!

~ The deadline to enter this giveaway is Midnight EST May31st.

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