Liv Hill asked Emily McIntire:

Hii, Love your books, What tropes will Burning daylight have and what was your inspiration for it??

Emily McIntire Hi Liv!

Burning Daylight tropes are:
- Star-Crossed (Modern day Romeo & Juliet with HEA)
- Rival Families
- He Falls First
- Secret Heir
- Slow Burn
- Corrupt Small Town
- Forbidden Love

Microtropes:
- Fighting as Foreplay
- She's only soft for him (no, she doesn't want to talk about it)
- "You're annoying, let's kiss."
- Legacy Drama
- I hate you (but not really)
- She calls him out. He calls her pretty.
- Born to hate you, dying to touch you.

My books always just kind of drop into my head and play like a movie for me. I can feel the emotions of the setting and the characters, and then they unfold for me as I write them down. I don't know where the stories come from other than they just appear and it's like I can't breathe or think about anything else until I get them on paper.

Rosebrook Falls (the town in this new series) dropped in my head and immediately felt like this moody, gritty, corrupt, wealthy town that was founded by these two powerful families who have generations of bad blood between them.

I wanted it to be a place where forbidden love runs rampant, almost like a curse, and then I thought, what better way to do an arc for a town that's known for it's forbidden love, than to do twists on tragic love stories, except this time, they'd get their happy ending.

I knew from the beginning that it would be an interconnected series as the characters are all very intertwined with one another. There are siblings and best friends, and betrayals, and twists and turns that will run throughout all of the books, and each character has been EXTREMELY loud in my head from the moment they showed up and started yapping.

I hope you love it when you read it!

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