While we’d all like to believe our good relationships will last forever, that’s not always the case. If it were, there’d be no angst in a good romance, or in life. Nothing pleases me more as both an author and a hopeless romantic than to hear of old loves finding each other again. Whether it’s later in life, or after a bump or two in the road.
What I find most interesting in reunion romances are the infinite possibilities we’re afforded by our experiences. Whether it’s college sweethearts who went their separate way after graduation and happen to run into each other years later. Or, the younger couple who gave up on their relationship too quickly.
I’ve had friends and family that fit into both categories, and definitely pulled some of my research from their real-life experiences.
Most often in the case of the later-in-life romances, one or both of the parties involved have had other relationships. Marriages. Children even. And, for whatever reason, now find themselves back on the market. Often with some humorous results.
While younger couples may not have experienced as much, they too have gained life experience, had other relationships that may not have lasted but did manage to make an impression on how they approach their lives.
In my island location related June and July books, I delve into both of these renewed romance scenarios. My later-in-life novella, I Do...Again, revolves around high school sweethearts Mitch and Lily. Separated by distance when the hero’s family relocates, neither has forgotten the other. Lily married and has children. Mitch remained a bachelor by choice. Theirs was a love that never died and, now, twenty-five years later, they’re getting their second chance at love.
My July full-length novel, takes on the classic runaway bride theme. When Emily runs out on her wedding rehearsal, leaving Chase standing alone in the chapel, it’s because she’s young, frightened that she’ll never truly experience life, or fulfil her ambitions. When the two meet up again, there’s a lot of hard feelings to work through. A lot of apologies to be extended and accepted. However, as with any good love story, there’s always room for forgiveness and renewal of what they’d once shared.
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