Continuing on this week with the enchanted charm bracelet in Charmed Against All Odds and the individual charms Roxie Golden and Leo King have to hunt for and why I chose them.
I talked about the first charm, an open book, last time. Today I’ll talk about the second charm and why I chose it as a symbol of things required in a lasting relationship, especially marriage.
One of the very familiar tropes in fiction is the friends-to-lovers story. I feel like this is the most powerful of stories in many ways. Mainly because if you can’t be friends with the person you’ll spend the vast majority of your time, your future, your old age with, then it’s going to be a difficult relationship/marriage to enjoy.
I’ve known people who tell me they love their family even if they don’t like them. Loving and liking are very different intensities of caring for another. Wanting no harm to come to family but also not wanting to spend time with them. I understand how that can be a person’s reality. I know of marriages that have stretched over decades but with little love between the husband and wife. I really don’t want to contemplate how horrible living in such a situation would make me feel.
I believe that for a marriage to last and to be a relationship cherished by the couple, there must be a friendship between them. Things they enjoy doing together. Experiences they want to share with the other first, or only. My loving hubby knows more about me than any other living soul on this planet. All the good, and all the not so good. He’s my very best friend, and I am his.
I have other friends, of course. I love and cherish our friendship, too! The difference between the friendship I share with my husband and that of my other friends comes down to just how intimately my husband knows me. Not just the physical me, but the emotional, professional, ambitious, loving, supporting me.
That will bring us to the other charms on the enchanted charm bracelet…
Two charms down, four more to go!
As a reminder, Charmed Against All Odds is available for preorder now and releases on November 11. I announced this special offer last week. As a bonus gift for everyone who preorders Charmed Against All Odds, I’ll give a free ebook copy of Book 1, Undying Love! Simply share a picture or screenshot of your order with me on my Facebook page (www.Facebook.com/AuthorBettyBolte) and I’ll send you a link where you can download your gift as a thank you for ordering Roxie and Leo’s story! (If you’ve already read Undying Love, let me know and we’ll work out a different story in the Secrets of Roseville series as a thank you gift!)
My next signing is November 2, so check out my Appearances page on my website for details. I’ll bring copies of The Haunting of Fury Falls Inn (Fury Falls Inn Book 1) to sign and I will have paperback copies of Charmed Against All Odds (Secrets of Roseville Book 5) before you can buy them in the store, too! I hope to see you in Albertville, AL, to support the Shades of Pemberley independent book store as a thank you for hosting my book birthday celebration!
As always, thanks for reading!
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Charmed Against All Odds releases November 11 and is available for pre-order now!
Loving her brings out the magic in him…
Wedding bells are ringing, but not for Roxie Golden. If she can survive another round of wedding plans, then her life can return to normal. She’s perfectly happy running the bookstore and weaving helpful magical spells. Then one stormy day, her ex-fiancé strolls back into her life with a gift neither of them wants.
Leo King wants to flee the small town for the big city. Forget about the shame he brought upon himself when he abused his magical powers. First, to satisfy his warlock father’s final wish, he must deliver the mysterious box to Roxie’s bookstore.
But when Roxie opens the box, revealing an enchanted bracelet and a quest spell, their plans and their lives are changed forever. Trapped in a reluctant partnership with the woman he once loved, he risks everything—including his heart—for a second chance.
Betty Bolte's Musings 
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