Reckless Longing (Reckless #1) by Gina Robinson
Publication Date: September 23rd, 2013
Genre: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Ellie Martin hates her beautiful, man-crazy mother. Her mother’s wild and wanton behaviour has left Ellie with a deep longing. To escape. To belong. To know who her real dad is. To really be loved. Her mother finally crosses a line that sends Ellie running, escaping to college with one, focused goal–to find and confront her bio dad, who doesn’t even know she exists. Then she meets Logan. Hot, charming, and troubled. He turns her world upside down and puts all her plans in jeopardy.
Logan Walker is hiding a shameful and painful secret. One that nearly cost him everything. When he meets the beautiful and mysterious Ellie at a Week of Welcome event, something inside him awakens and he finds himself drawn to her.
Logan Walker is hiding a shameful and painful secret. One that nearly cost him everything. When he meets the beautiful and mysterious Ellie at a Week of Welcome event, something inside him awakens and he finds himself drawn to her.
But the attraction they both feel for each other is as delicate as the web of secrets they each hide behind. And as the truths are revealed, their reckless longing may not survive the fallout.
The Inspiration for Reckless Longing by Gina Robinson
Reckless
Longing is my first new adult romance. I had a
blast writing it. I love romance, mystery, and suspense and write historical
and contemporary romance as well. But I'm best known for my funny romantic
suspense novels about spies. Readers always want to know where I come up with
my zany ideas. My husband, who's always my first reader, knows where I get my
ideas and recognizes things from our lives when he reads my books. I'll often
hear him laughing at something when he's reading one of my manuscripts for the
first time. And, of course, he's supposed to be laughing at my funny spy
romances, but many times I'll catch him laughing during the serious parts. When I accuse him of this
egregious sin, he shrugs it off saying he sees the inspiration behind the scene.
To him, it's an inside joke. So the short answer to where I get my ideas is—from
everyday life and everywhere. But for Reckless
Longing, I have a specific answer.
This spring I did a book signing on campus
at the student bookstore at my alma mater during Mom's Weekend. Moms and
daughters and moms and sons crowded the campus. Lots of moms and daughters, and
a few brave sons humoring their moms, wore matching Mom's Weekend sweatshirts
or T-shirts. Most moms looked, for lack of a better word, momly. But as I took
a walking tour of campus, I encountered a different kind of mom—the mom who
thought she was still a hot college coed herself and was clearly in competition
with her own daughter for the guys' attention. An interesting aside—I've heard
that more condoms and beer are sold during Mom's Weekend than any other
weekend.
I remember clearly standing at the edge of
Greek Row. Even though it was April, the temperature was only thirty-nine
degrees with a stiff icy wind and blowing snow. I was bundled in a coat,
gloves, and sweatshirt. But walking down Greek Row on three-inch stilettos in
the middle of the afternoon were a matching mother and daughter pair. They were
each wearing skintight black leather skirts, tight white blouses and cropped
leather jackets. They had identical hairstyles of flowing brown hair that fell
past their shoulders and their makeup was meticulously applied and geared
toward clubbing. Both were clearly on the make. And the idea for Ellie and her
man-crazy mother was born. A mother who will compete with her daughter for
everything and try to hold onto her youth after it has long since slipped away.
So that was the seed, the story germ for
the Reckless trilogy which kicks off
with Reckless Longing. But there's
much, much more to Ellie's story and romance with the hot, mysterious Logan
Walker. Her relationship with her mom is only the catalyst that gets the story
going. I hope you'll read the series to see where the story goes from there.
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Happy Reading!
Gina
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