The Runaway Duke by Julie Anne Long5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() What books inspired me to write about Cress and Dev? Before I dive into the books I would love for you to read, I want to note that I’m not going to touch Flowers From the Storm by Laura Kinsale in this post. What Cress really does is break out of the life she had to seek out something better, the adventure she deserved. First, she gets waylaid by Dev while he’s a highwayman, then she has to hire Dev to break her brother out of prison. My favorite runway romances inspired me to write about my own runaway heroine, Cress Darewood. ![]() The wonderful thing about our digital age is that you can find those great books you read when you were fifteen and relive that adventure over and over again. The historical context makes it more interesting because it was completely unacceptable a century ago for a woman to take off with a man she barely knows. When she makes that decision and leaves with the hero, I have to keep going to find out what happens next. I connect with the heroine right away because I grew up in a small town and constantly dreamed of running off. ![]() That’s why when I find a book where the heroine takes off with the bad boy, I’m hooked. Who hasn’t had that day when you look around and go, “I’ve got to get away.” I understand why a person would want to though. Also, growing up, every boy I knew went to my church. I never ran off with the bad boy, which comes more from a lack of inclination than anything else. ![]()
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