Will You Still Love Me…In The Next Book?
Keeping the Romance Active Throughout a Series
Nora
Roberts/J.D. Robb. Jeanine Frost. Charlaine Harris. What do these
three ladies have in common? Besides being amazing writers and even
more amazing individuals (seriously, do you ever hear a mean thing
about one of them? Because I don’t.), they all have the enviable
skill of keeping their main characters romantic lives both active and
applicable through the arc of an entire series.
Roberts/Robb
has so many book titles I couldn’t even begin to list them all. One
of her most popular by far is the In
Death series featuring Eve
Dallas and Roarke. The setting may be futuristic and the crux of the
action may be said to be police procedural, but the core of the books
is the relationship between Eve and Roarke. These are two troubled
individuals who through the most random of circumstances find each
other and fall in love. But Roberts/Robb doesn’t end the story
there. Through the course of the series she shows us what happens
after the “I do”, both the good and the bad. Problems don’t
disappear after you get your happily ever after, and it’s Eve and
Roarke’s commitment to working through their problems that keeps
their relationship both realistic and romantic.