Jaime Rush (aka Tina Wainscott) writes romantic suspense, including the paranormal Hidden series. Her next book, Angel Seduced, is coming out February 25. She's stopped by for our love and literature series to tell us how romance drives plot:
Books and romance. For me, they’ve always gone together. I have never written a book that didn’t include a romantic element, and I’ve written a lot of books. Whether there’s a psychotic stalker, wars between Dragon shifter clans, or Navy SEALs trying to cobble their lives together, romance has to play into the story. Why? While the suspense puts people into the worst places of their lives and tests their mettle beyond anything they could ever imagine, the romance both challenges them to be stronger and gives them the support they badly need.
For instance, in my Jaime Rush book, Magic Possessed, Violet must stand alone to find the truth behind several murders that are spurring the clan wars to start up again. So I paired her with a member of the Guard, the force that polices the Hidden element in my paranormal romance series. Only Kade has actually been assigned to assassinate her because she knows too much. Initially he and Violet are enemies, but as he questions his orders, he supports Violet at the cost of his career, and everything he once held to be important. But isn’t love the most important thing in the world?
In my Tina Wainscott Justiss Alliance books, the first five heroes have already suffered a terrible loss after taking the fall for a covert mission gone wrong. Fighting for justice in the private sector gives them purpose again, but each lady that they help—and fall in love with—brings them a deeper purpose and fulfills a part of themselves they didn't know was even lacking.
It’s all about weaving character, plot and romance so tightly, you don’t know where one ends and the other begins. But it’s the characters, and thus their romance, that drives the plot. I think that’s at the heart of every good romantic suspense.
Love can bring out our best, and our worst. But in the end, it teaches us to accept ourselves, flaws and all, because someone else does.
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