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Mackenzie Crowne | Origin Stories
If you visit Amazon these days, youโll find millions of books.
Millions in the romance category alone. So many stories. So many ideas birthed
in the writersโ imaginations. But where do those ideas come from? Ask most
writers that question and youโll most likely get some variation of Oh, geez.
Everywhere. Thatโs because life provides the seed for every story, whether
it be a song lyric that hits your ears at just the right time, a news headline,
a funny comment overheardโฆ
Or something as simple as an elderly man holding a bouquet of flowers as he
waits for a train.
I stood in Grand Central not long ago, watching such an old man and thinking,
where is he going? Who are the flowers for? He must be meeting a woman. Look at
how sweet and dapper he looks in his fedora as he anxiously studies the board
with the train schedule. My mind quickly slipped a romance heroine into the
picture. She sits next to the old man on the train andโฆ
The possibilities are endless.
For me, at least, those seeds normally sprout sideways, never taking me where
I first thought they would. Like the idea that came from the flash of
headlights, believe it or not. My husband and I had recently purchased land on
the side of Mt. Graham east of Tucson and we were headed to the property late at
night. Itโs pretty rough terrain, with lots of sharp dips and steep climbs on
the dirt road leading in. We came up over a rise and off in the distance on
another peak, another vehicle must have been travelling as well because a beam
of light suddenly appeared, shooting straight into the night sky.
Now, many here in the southwest would have immediately thought ALIENS!
Because, you know. Itโs the desert. Thatโs where the aliens always hang out.
Seriously. Roswell isnโt far away. Anyway, I didnโt go the alien route. For
whatever reason, I imagined the beam more like the light shining through a door
that had suddenly been opened. A portal of sorts. One that could transport
someone from one spot to another, anywhere in the world, and maybe, any
time in the world.
So, now youโre thinking, Ah, Mac found the seed for a sci-fi time-travel
romance set in the mountains of southern Arizona, but youโd be wrong. In the
end, that seed bloomed into a contemporary fantasy romance set in Ireland. Yeah,
I know. The odd path the story took threw me a little too, but that flash of
headlights was the birth of my first published book.
Just over a year ago, a pair of twin girls I saw one day while shopping
became the seed for what eventually morphed into Players, my sports
romance series. Donโt ask me how I went from those cute little girls to an MMA
champion finding his HEA with country musicโs โIt Girlโ in my latest release, TO WIN HER HEART. Even I
canโt explain how my imagination works, but these days, Iโm not fazed in the
least when it goes sideways. Instead, I embrace the possibilities and
rememberโฆtheyโre endless.
Breast cancer survivor and award winning author, Mackenzie Crowne writes
sensual contemporary romance with a side of sass. Her friends call her Mac. She
hopes you will too.
In order to protect her, theyโll both have to let their guards
downโฆ Country musicโs It Girl Jessi Tucker is fed up with her
familyโs stifling security measures. The threat of a dangerous stalker has
gotten the men in her lifeโincluding her football star cousin, Tuck
Tuckerโmonitoring her every move. To get the freedom she yearns for, Jessi
hatches a plan to recruit Max Grayson, Tuckโs sexy brawler best friend, to play
the role of her new boyfriend. But if her scheme works, will she be forced to
hide her true romantic feelings for the sake of her independence? Or will she
finally steal the heart of her dream man?... Max has been pining for Jessi
for years and would do anything to protect her, but a professional cage fighter
with too many skeletons in his closet has no business being with one of
Americaโs sweethearts. Yet while Max does his best to keep Jessi at armโs
length, the Tucker family persuades him to accept her offer. Max believes
he can keep Jessi safe from danger, but can he shelter her from his own dark
secrets, the mediaโs unforgiving spotlightโand a mutual desire thatโs harder to
resist each dayโฆ
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