Have you ever seen one of those TV commercials for an Internet dating website with a man and woman who met online, and are now in wedded bliss? My husband and I could be that couple. I still tease him that my online dating membership was the best $29.99 I ever spent! The day after I decided to dip my toe into the Internet dating pool, I received an email from my future spouse, and the rest as they say…is history.

But I quickly realized we aren’t an anomaly when I began to ask people how they met their other half. I discovered co-workers, friends, and family members who are happily married today, as a result of a cyber relationship. Curious, I researched online dating and found some startling numbers on Statistics Brain. As of January 2014, there were 54,250,000 singles in the US and 41,250,000 of them have used online dating. That’s a whopping 76%!

Since so many people are falling in love via the Internet, I thought readers would relate to a heroine and hero who meet online. The idea for my sexy contemporary romance, Because of Jacqueline, was born. To make things interesting, I decided to delay their first date. Jackie must travel out of town for work. The couple spend the next two weeks in a tantalizing state of limbo filled with emails, texts, and phone conversations that go on seamlessly for hours.

Even though they have never met, their souls touch. The story taps into our desire to find one person who will love of us for who were are, not just our outward appearance. The conflict arises when they meet and their relationship changes.