May 2018: Debut Novel Inspiration
~ Anna Hague ~

CTR asked:
QUESTION: What inspired you to write your debut novel?

Anna Hague said:
I’m sure music plays a role in the creation of many authors’ books. For me, just a few lines of one of my favorite songs began a journey that ended in my debut novel Captured Hearts.

The best concert I’ve ever attended included American Authors, The Script, and the headliner was One Republic. At the time, their song Counting Stars was popular. I liked the song, but when I heard them play this song live, a couple lines stuck with me the whole night.

I’d been toying around with this story for a while, but hadn’t found the direction I really wanted to go. I had the characters and their personalities, a setting, and some story ideas, but I needed a plot to challenge me. First, we started with the MCs meeting in my small town setting. Each had a painful past they were trying to overcome.

Nope. Didn’t work.

I tried the chance meeting in the city and ending in the small town.

Worse.

I work as a sports writer so I thought make them athletes with physical and emotional injuries retreating to this small town.

Even worse.

I listened to Counting Stars more and more. Each time I heard those particular lines, a story began to form with very vivid pictures. This story would romance with a HEA, but with a very difficult journey.

The line “I feel something so right by doing the wrong thing And I feel something so wrong by doing the right thing,” was my hero Jamey.

This started the book remained an internal conflict throughout the story.

“I could lie, couldn’t I, couldn’t I? Every thing that kills me makes me feel alive.” I thought Allee personified this line. She had so many problems she had to face alone her entire life, but she was strong and kept going no matter what happened to her.

Even now, when I hear Counting Stars I’m back in my story reliving the painful, but ultimately happily ever after journey.

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Captured Hearts

[Contemporary Romance]

After his parents were murdered when he was sixteen, Jamey Marcum had to make difficult choices. Choices that often changed others’ lives. Now he’s made a decision to change one more life. Allee Jones.

Allee Jones was the perfect target. No family. No friends. No one will miss her if she never shows up to her job again. Because of her anxieties, she is a social pariah.

When Jamey abducts Allee, he never imagined she would be the one to slip into his sealed heart, and emotions could get both of them killed. Still, he delivers her to a ruthless woman who enslaves Allee to the whims of deviants and predators in a hidden Pacific Northwest location housing dozens of abducted women.

In the midst of the nightmare she faces, Allee has to decide to trust her abductor or die, but she has her own attraction to the man who grabbed her off the street.

Together they must fight each other’s demons to face their undeniable desire, exposing even more of Allee’s secret afflictions.

Once she is rescued from the operation, Jamey and Allee’s challenges reach far beyond what transpired between them.

Terror, guilt, forgiveness, and love all collide on a path to an uncertain future.

Available in Ebook:

– Kindle – https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Hearts-Unimaginable-Choices-Undeniable-ebook/dp/B01N531PT4

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