I hate you/I love you - Romance Writers Weekly - #lovechatwrite

​This is what we’re discussing this week on the Blog Hop:

What’s your take on the “enemies-to-lovers” trope? How do you make this dynamic feel fresh and believable?

I quite enjoy enemies-to-lovers…with one caveat. It has to be realistic. And that's a really fine line to navigate.

New guy that moves in and she hates because he won’t say hi to her on the sidewalk? Nah.

Two people blinded by their own false beliefs that keep them from seeing themselves and the other clearly? Sign me up! (Pride and Prejudice, anyone?)

The conflict that makes them enemies not only has to be believable, it has to be equal. One of them can’t be less invested than the other. They must both stand to lose something critical in order for the enmity to make sense.

In Crossroads Corner, Camryn Bendixon is struggling to cope with losing both her financial security and her career. She’s determined to seek validation by saving her grandfather’s construction company from a takeover bid. The man in charge of the takeover is Will Danson. To a single dad with a blind daughter, not achieving his goal could jeopardize everything he has planned for his daughter.

To be honest, they are very polite enemies (Canadian, eh?). But their conflicting goals provide another layer of tension between them – even though he falls fast and hard the first time he meets her.

You can find out more about Crossroads Corner below. Then hop over to Jenna Da Sie for her take on this topic.

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After an embezzling boyfriend puts her under police suspicion and deeply in debt, Camryn Bendixon has one goal—rebuild her career and her self-esteem by dragging her grandfather’s failing construction company back to profitability by her manicured fingernails. She refuses to be distracted by the sexy single dad who stands in her way.

Will Danson knows life is meant to be savoured—a fact brought home every time he hugs his young daughter, who lost her sight as an infant. Balancing her needs while managing the booming Kohlenburg Construction Group should make it easy to ignore his disdainful but captivating business rival.

Soon Camryn and Will are competing for construction bids and career-making contracts. But it is her battered heart that he truly wants to win.

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