Would this book be great for book club discussion – why? Themes never really consciously enter into it for me. The idea for a book always grabs my attention first, then I think about what characters I need to move around this really cool plot. When planning this book did you start with the plot or characters or the themes you wanted to explore? I was so fascinated with the idea that I had to build a book around it.
So we discussed some legal and moral implications of the situation and what had initially seemed so incredibly simple and private suddenly became complicated and intriguing, propelling me to do some research into the legalities and morality of the issue. ” And then my brother-in-law looked at her, saying, “I’m not sure I’d want you to have my baby after I’m gone.” I wonder if sperm is considered property.
My attorney sister got this puzzled look on her face and said, “Actually that’s a really interesting legal issue. I figured it wasn’t anybody’s business, after all once you get married, your body’s mine and mine’s yours, right? The idea of having your dead husband’s baby seemed bizarre, but still it struck me as a frivolous, ridiculous lawsuit. My husband was on a business trip on my birthday, so my sister and brother-in-law took me out to dinner to celebrate and I’d cut out this article in the newspaper about a woman being sued by her deceased husband’s family to keep her from having his baby after he was dead. I often get my ideas from current events-newspaper articles. Dating Mark gives her access to Hastings’s life and secrets that would launch Skye’s career and satisfy her need for retribution… Only she hadn’t counted on falling in love.Ĭan she avenge the lives lost to politics at the expense of her new love and friends? When Skye fails to find alternative treatment in time, she vows to end the senator’s political career.Ĭurious about the woman behind the scathing articles on his best friend, Mark Dutton pursues Skye. Unable to bear yet another loss, Skye is determined to find a cure, but the girl’s only hope lies in the embryonic stem cell therapy Michigan Senator Edward Hastings repeatedly opposes. Skye relaxes into a career she enjoys and relishes being a doting aunt. Reporter Skylar Kendall has run from commitment all her life, pushing people away before they leave her, until her niece worms her way into Skye’s heart and settles in tight. How far would you go to save the one you love?
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