Goodreads asked Melanie Codina:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Melanie Codina I'm not sure I can say I got the specific idea for the most recent book anywhere. I tend to write stories that either touch on fears or concerns of my own and how I would respond to them if ever in those situations. When I wrote Tori from Love Required, I was concerned with her past and how well I was going to be able to write it. Her history with her ex was terrorizing and I wanted to make sure I wrote a character who had reason to be strong enough to overcome the terror. For her, it was her child that gave her that strength.
When I imagined what it would be like to be faced with a horrible man like her ex, I imagined what she would need in her future and what she deserved. And I just happened to have Jason Michaels waiting in the background for her.
So for me, it starts as a thought, then it evolves into questions, and then I try to play those answers out and a story is what I get. =)

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