The One Woman by Laura May

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Welcome to It's Raining Books. Why do you write in your genre? What draws you to it?

Romance has always been one of my favorite genres. I love the feeling a good love story evokes, this tingling sensation spreading to the tips of fingers when two characters are finally together.

A happy ending is a must. Also, I enjoy it when a book has some spice in it. I love reading good spicy moments, and I love writing them.

What research is required?

My characters usually travel around the world, so some places need historical fact checking or geographical accuracies.

Name one thing you learned from your hero/heroine.

Courage.

Do you have any odd or interesting writing quirks, habits or superstitions?

I need silence to write. Often I use earplugs.

Are you a plotter or pantser?

Pantser. I discover the story as I write. Sometimes I know what the major critical points would be, sometimes it takes time to uncover them. But often it’s like I immerse myself into their world and see what the characters are doing.

The writing feels in two ways: as though I’m creating these characters, but they are separate people living somewhere and I just watch their interactions.

Look to your right – what’s sitting there?

A cup of coffee on a wooden tray :)

Anything new coming up from you? What?

Two more books are already with Creative James Media, both coming out in 2024.

One is historical/contemporary LGBTQ romance with a splash of magical realism. The story takes place in Tallahassee, Riga, and New York.

The other is contemporary LGBTQ romance featuring polyamory and lost love.

Do you have a question for our readers?

What was the last book that took your breath away?

Right Person. Wrong timing.

Julie manipulates what the eye can't see as a graphic designer but no matter what lens she uses, her life and her relationship with her boyfriend Mark remain mundane. Until she meets Ann. Ann is successful, beautiful, and charismatic. Julie can't deny the spark during their chance meeting. When their present entwines once again in Barcelona the spark is impossible to extinguish. When tragedy strikes, Julie must decide between her devotion to Mark and her love for Ann. Can true love survive when the timing is all wrong?

Read an Excerpt

We took our seats towards the back. I was so nervous I was going to faint. Good, at least I would not need to endure this hell for long. I stared forward at the seat in front of me, paralyzed. I am going to die here, played on a loop in my head.

Something warm touched my hand, I looked down and through the fog I saw Julie's hand squeezing mine.

"Breathe," she told me. She was calm. "You are brave—"

And it started. Momentarily, I was pressed deep into the seat. Julie screamed but didn't let go of my hand. A great force made it hard to even take a breath.

As we rushed up, I glanced down. It was so high my poor hammering heart skipped a beat. Now we were on the top, and the wind was freezing here. In the next second, we were falling.

Now, I screamed. Everyone screamed. It made it easier. Julie was not holding me anymore; she clutched me. And we were down. My heart had never beaten so fast in my life.

I turned to Julie, feeling like we were running on pure adrenaline. Time stopped as I drowned in her pools of caramel. She was breathing hard, and I felt her grazing my hand up and down with her thumb. I looked down, but she quickly removed her hand.

"You did it," she said breathlessly.

***

She closed her eyes, the sun shining on her face, and again I couldn't take my eyes off her. Thank God I stopped for the red light; she was a dangerous distraction to have in the car. She opened her eyes and looked at me, her smile tugging at the corners of her lips.

I heard the honk from the back; the light had switched to green some time ago. I pressed the gas, and we giggled.

As the car hit the highway, we immediately got stuck in a traffic jam.

"It's like this almost all the time here, don't worry. We shouldn't be here long. We’ll probably be home in twenty minutes," I assured her.

"I don’t worry," Julie said, touching my hand on the steering wheel. We were not moving at all.

I watched mesmerized by how she took my hand and how she entwined her fingers with mine. Her touch sent jolts of pure energy through my body. I had waited for her, and I would always wait for her. She looked directly at me, her liquid caramel eyes pausing my heart. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw movement.

"We need to move," she said, breaking the spell.

Damn it, the road. The traffic moved faster and moments later, we were speeding down the highway again. Julie left her hand on my knee, tracing circles. She was talking about work, how it and books had saved her sanity during the last week.

"With each passing day, it was physically painful to stay so far from you," Julie sighed.

About the Author: Laura May is a pseudonym of a Ukrainian-American author. Laura lived in Kyiv till her mid-twenties. Now she can be found traveling around the world. The One Woman is her debut novel published by Creative James Media.

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