Take a Sip of a Caribbean Brew with Chloe Harris

Hello Coffee Time Readers! I’m here with a fresh cup of French pressed Columbian and I’d like to introduce myself.

I’m Chloe Harris. Well, almost. Chloe Harris is really two people Barbra and Noelle. Barbra and I (Noelle) were critic partners with very busy lives. Eventually we discovered that we worked together very well and could get a lot more done working together.

Secrets of Sin is the second novel we completed together and the first to sell. Here’s a peek at what Secrets of Sin is all about.

On a Caribbean island of alluring delights, Emiline du Ronde-Barhydt commands a large estate, vast wealth, and unwavering devotion. Her inheritance and dazzling beauty insure that she’s granted her every wish”¦ or almost. The one thing she can’t get is freedom from her proud wayward husband.

When her husband, sea captain Reinier Barhydt finally agrees to give his determined wife the divorce she craves -t’s for a price: three days of total submission to his every erotic demand. Both fall under the spell of the most forbidden sensations that reignite every delicious inch of their bodies”¦ and Reinier soon realizes that he is no longer master of his carnal game. At the mercy of his own raw shattering needs, the three red hot days may just turn into a lifetime of smoldering passion”¦

Lots of people ask us how we work together on one story. As far our writing process goes, it seems to always work out that one of us will have either a great idea for a scene/chapter or a better grasp of the charcter whose speaking at that point in the story. That person will do the first draft of the chapter. Then the chapter goes back and forth a minimum of three times sometimes ore and by the time we’ve both added, deleted, moved around etc to the point where we’re both happy then the voice is Chloe’s and not Noelle’s or Barbra’s.

Writing historical romance take research and we did do a lot of research from very diverse places. Part of it started with a class project my daughter did where she had to find a pirate to profile. She chose John Julian an Aphro-Indian ship’s pilot that sailed with Black Sam Bellamy. John came to a sad end but I imagined my own ending for him that included marrying a beautiful French noble woman and having a daughter named Emiline.

Of course there was a lot of internet researching and with Barbra’s scholarly background she’s a wiz at all types of research. I’m lucky to have colonial era historical sites ten minutes from my home that Barbra and I have both visited. I have been to several other places in the Caribbean and I was also lucky enough to have a wonderful writer from Jamaica in my local group that helped us make some of the decisions on the setting in the beginning.  We hope readers will feel transported to both the time and place.

We would love to transport you! And we’d love to hear your favorite time or place to be transported to.

Chloe Harris can be found around the web at:

Chloe Harris’s Blog: http://chloeharrisauthor.blogspot.com/
Chloe Harris’s Website: http://www.authorchloeharris.com
I post for us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/ChloeHarris

I’m also part of a great blog called Kiss and Tell. It’s a group of Carolina Girls that write erotic romantic across all subgenres: http://kissandtellgirls.blogspot.com