Romance Character of the Week, Adam from Perfect & Perfect Always
Thinking back, I’m trying to remember how the story line for Perfect formed in my head. I knew I wanted to write a romance. I’d just finished writing my YA dystopian novel, Lovelock Ones, and was done with the heavy. I had in my mind girl whose mother came to the U.S., pregnant, to live with her sister after her parents threw her out of their home in Vietnam. This twenty-year-old girl, named Chloe, grew up in a small town in Kentucky and attended the University of Kentucky on a scholarship. Studious and driven, she didn’t fit in in her hometown until she met Adam.
Adam was captain of the football team and only son of a wealthy horse ranch owner. He dreamed of raising horses like his father and uncle and perhaps winning the Kentucky Derby with one of them. Adam and Chloe meet in a history class in high school and their friendship and romance grew from there. But we didn’t learn that until Perfect Always, which expands on Chloe and Adam’s romance.
Not one to write just a romance, Perfect turned out to be an odd-bird book. In Perfect there are five parts, each part featuring a different or alternate path for Chloe’s life. In part 1, we are introduced to Chloe and Adam and read just two pages of their romance. High school sweethearts, Adam has their lives all planned. He wants to marry Chloe and raise horses on his ranch. But is this what Chloe wants? Can she be happy with a small-town life?
What do you think? Is the simplicity of a small town nirvana? Dive into Perfect, FREE this month on Smashwords here! Or if you’re a Kindle, Nook, or Apple Books reader go here to find all the links.
Rather dive into a small town romance and learn more about Chloe and Adam, read Perfect Always on Kindle or KU with the links here.
Happy reading!
Tricia