I am so freaking excited about Magnum’s book. I’m working on the outline and the character profiles. They are both so interesting and quirky, and total opposites so they push each other’s buttons a lot.

Mag’s a bad boy with trust issues and she’s suffering from good girl syndrome. The tropes are “my brother’s girl” and “fake marriage.” There’s also lots of “who did this to you?” and “where’s my wife?” It’s an interracial relationship. Mag is black (Cajun from Louisiana) and she’s first generation Chinese American. All my characters are going to be more diverse from now on.

It might be the best setup (meet cute) I’ve ever written. It won’t be a secret, it’ll be in the blurb, so I’ll share it here because I’m excited and can’t stop gushing.

Wren has been dating Mag’s brother, Gavin. She’s very poor and desperate. Her parents are ill and she works all day at their business just to make enough to pay food and rent. They have crazy high medical bills, so when her grandfather dies, Gavin convinces her to go onto the dark web and do some hacking so that it looks like her grandfather is still alive. It’s basically fraud, but she gets to keep receiving his pension and other benefits from both China and the US.

One day, Gavin is stressed and says that they have to get married within a week. He tells her the FBI is investigating them for fraud. She panics and agrees.

On the wedding day, Gavin doesn’t show. He stands her up. She’s crying in the rain when Magnum arrives. After a lot of discussion, Magnum ends up offering to stand in for his brother. It’s an “I volunteer as tribute” moment for sure. He marries her and signs his brother’s name on the marriage license.

After that, he slowly gets to know his brother’s beautiful bride and finds out things aren’t at all what they seem. His little bird, Wren, is in danger, and once again, he steps up to help her. Of course he does because a real man does not run away. Even if it terrifies him that he might really fall in love with his fake wife.

What do you think? Sounds awesome, right?

The first act is outlined and the character profiles are mostly done.

I’m working out the details now of the second and third act. Who are the bad guys? How will the Knight Security team come together and take Wren’s back? Will Magnum learn to trust and allow true love in his heart? Should I let the brother live? Ahh, such power in my hands.

Here’s a sweet video I made about the wedding day.

As usual, everything is subject to change. There’s no preorder yet, but follow my blog for updates. I’m going to document the whole process here. Tentative date is spring 2024.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you. You can read all my books free in Kindle Unlimited and you’ll definitely want to reread the Knight Security books so far. (Vander, Steel, and Auggie)

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Until next time, happy reading,

Bex Dane