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After losing the first ship he commanded (and on his first mission!) to the French at the Chesapeake Bay in 1781, then being a prisoner of war until it officially ended in 1783, then facing a court martial for losing his ship (and being acquitted but discharged from the Royal Navy), he swore he’d never set foot on a ship again.

Inspiration from: Night Song by Beverly Jenkins.

When a bored naval captain turned out on land during the Peace sets his sights on her, will he be able to crack through her shell of self- and professional-preservation and make her fall in love with him?.

As headmistress of a girls’ finishing school, she knows better than to allow even the slightest hint of dalliance with a man.

Also inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac (obviously).

Inspiration from: Till Next We Meet by Karen Ranney.

Similar to Option 1, but she figures out the fiance wasn’t the one writing the letters from his behavior now that he’s back and the only interest he shows is in her father’s money/social standing. As they spend time in the same social circles, she slowly comes to realize he’s the one who was writing the letters when she figures out she didn’t know the man whom all of his friends/fellow officers talk about-but feels like she knows his friend intimately. The fiance’s friend, who was actually writing the letters, finds her to offer his sympathies (and the “fiance’s last letter”?). But after three years of letters, she is so irrevocably in love, she’s not sure how she can live from one letter to the next. Through “his” letters, she gets to know him in an entirely new way-she’d been trying to come up with a good reason to cry off the engagement, realizing she wasn’t in love with him, before he left. Her fiance goes off to war but promises to write.Inspiration from: A Kiss of Lies by Bronwyn Evans.She’s an admiral’s daughter sailing back to England with her sister on her brother-in-law’s (Captain) ship.Having suffered severe burns over half his face during battle, he is far from home (Gibraltar) when the Peace of Amiens begins.Here are some examples (with a link to the story that inspired it) of what I came up with-some are more fleshed out than others! I also don’t have names for these characters yet…

I’m currently going through the list during my writing time each evening, reading the book description and seeing if it sparks a story idea for me. I got on Goodreads and clicked on my Historical Romance list, sorting it by highest average rating. It seems counter-intuitive and like a really bad idea to look to other authors’ books for story inspiration, but that’s exactly what I decided to do.

Since I’ve never really recorded my process of coming up with story ideas (mostly because it’s been a different process each time), I thought I’d record this journey as I take it. About a week ago, I posted on my Facebook Page about a new series idea that was percolating in my imagination.