| BACK TO LUKE Who is Luke? |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|12:34 pm] |
The hero of my new book, Luke Corelli, 38, is a man’s man. The youngest boy in an Italian family, Luke has four older sisters. He was a high school football star, but he blew out his knee and that ended his hopes for an athletic scholarship. Instead of choosing college, he and his best buddy Timmy decided to go to Dubai and take a chance on the building boom there in the late eighties and early nineties. They make what my parents used to a call “a mint” and return to New York City with enough cash to buy into a big conglomerate’s construction business. But things don’t go the way Luke expected and he finds himself back in his hometown as a contractor for Harmony Housing, a not-for-profit government run organization that builds houses for the disadvantaged. (See picture and story in yesterday’s blog.)
Like many men, Luke needs to run things, to fix things, and (pardon the pun), bulldoze his way through his own problems, his family’s issues and the heroine’s current conflicts. This brings him head-to-head with Jayne Logan. Not only can’t he fix her life, he can’t even control his when she’s around. Luke has a lot to learn (I love when heroes do!) as does Jayne, and wow, are there fireworks. Of course, because it’s a romance, they end up together but, truthfully, there were times when even I thought, “How am I going to get them together?
Tomorrow you’ll hear Jayne’s side of the story.
Kathy |
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