Contemporary Romance
Date Published: May 30, 2017
The lake town of Maisonville was better known as Renaissance Lake and most who moved there were looking to begin again.
Sydney Bell was no exception. Recovering from a divorce she needed to pick up the pieces of her life and start over.
Unfortunately, in her new town the handsome Ryan Gentry next door and Sydney are already butting heads.
When the real reason she moved to the lake is revealed, she’s reminded that a small town can heal your soul, sparring with an arrogant neighbor can build self-esteem, and true friendship has the ability to make you a better person.
Interview
with Lisa Herrington
What inspired you to write The Fix?
I was in the middle
of editing the first novel in my new adult series (The Phoebe Books) and the
characters from The Fix, Sydney and Ryan, wouldn’t stop distracting me. Seriously
I had a hard deadline set for edits with the other novel and would find myself
daydreaming about conversations between Ryan and Sydney or the two of them
would be flirting/disagreeing until I finally had to stop and write a chapter.
That was the end of any other work! I wrote their story in a month which is a
record for me.
Can you tell us a little bit about the
next books in The Renaissance Lake Series or what you have planned for the
future?
The
second book in The Renaissance Lake Series will be about Reagan Gentry,
Ryan’s sister. In The Fix readers
were introduced to her and Dr. Seth Young. Readers will learn about their past,
Reagan’s struggles with her intense career and whether or not intimacy is
possible for a driven career woman. Can she have it all?
Can you tell us a little bit about the
characters in The Fix?
Sydney
Bell was a devoted mother and struggling with the death of her beloved father
and lack of affection from her husband. She was completely consumed with caring
for her four boys and with their busy schedules had no idea her husband was
cheating on her. To compound the situation, the husband she’d married at the young
age of nineteen, after his first wife had passed away, kicked her out of the
house in order to move in the new girlfriend. Back when they’d first been
married, the boys were very young and clung to Sydney. She had instantly felt
like they were her own children and over the years hadn’t even considered what
would happen if she and Drake divorced.
Blindsided
by losing her husband, home and children, Sydney didn’t handle things well. She
fought with her ex and his girlfriend not realizing that behind the scenes they
were plotting a larger scheme to have her removed from their lives permanently.
Sydney moved to the serene lake town of Maisonville with a plot of her own.
However, she soon found herself fighting for more than she planned.
Ryan
Gentry had gone into the Marines directly after high school. He was a dedicated
soldier and intended for it to be his lifelong career until a terrible accident
changed everything. He’d started over in Maisonville and with the encouragement
from his sister started his renovation company. He had thought he had
everything he’d ever wanted until he met Sydney.
You know I think we all have a favorite author. Who is your
favorite author and why?
Sarah Addison Allen is my favorite author. She creates incredible
characters that you become involved with as a reader and then spins a tale that
captivates you until the very last page. (and sometimes longer!)
I highly recommend Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen to
get started all though I’ve read and loved all of her books!
If you could time-travel would you travel to the future or
the past? Where would you like to go and why would you like to visit this
particular time period?
Ooooh, I would love to do it all! I would love to go
back to the golden age of the twenties and I would love to go forward and see
all the exciting new technological advances of the future.
I’m captivated by the early era of the twenties. I love
reading and watching things from that time. I can only imagine having a
Writer’s group like my Bayou Writer’s Club back then and possibly having some
of the greats like Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and
T.S. Elliot participating.
As for the future, I am captivated by the changes that
I see in my children’s lives today. The kids of today have the ability to stay
in touch with each other from across the world and because of that their circle
of friends and acquaintances knows no boundaries. I love that! We have the
ability to instant message, facetime, email, and video conference with everyone
we know and love. I personally am enjoying Amazon’s Echo and Echo Show at home
and cannot wait to see how “Smart” our homes will be in another hundred years!
Do you have any little fuzzy friends? Like a dog or a cat?
Or any pets?
I had a precious dog, Louie, for sixteen years that
recently passed. He was a multi-colored Shih Tzu and he would sit on a pillow
under my desk as I wrote.
Thanks
for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit with us today.
About the Author
Lisa Herrington is a Women’s Fiction and YA novelist, blogger and speaker. A former medical sales rep, she currently manages the largest Meet-Up writing group in the New Orleans area, The Bayou Writer’s Club. She was born and raised in Louisiana, attended college at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi and accepts that in New Orleans we never hide our crazy but instead parade it around on the front porch and give it a cocktail. It’s certainly why she has so many stories to tell today. When she’s not writing, and spending time with her husband and three children, she spends time reading, watching old movies or planning something new and exciting with her writer’s group.
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