By Tristan Kane In my novel Two Doors Down, James is a single father of five, a good man with a good heart, who finds himself drawn to Christy—a woman who’s just starting to rediscover herself after years of emotional neglect. Their connection is raw, real, and deeply human. But even the most beautiful beginnings […]
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By Tristan Kane When people find out I’m a man writing emotional, first-person, present-tense romance from a woman’s point of view, the first question they usually ask is: Why? And the answer isn’t about craft — it’s about connection. When I started writing Two Doors Down, I didn’t set out to write a traditional love
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By Tristan Kane James Reynolds isn’t just the guy next door. He’s the man who sees what others miss. The kind who holds space without needing to fill it, who listens deeper than most people speak. But he didn’t become that man by accident. James was forged through heartbreak — not just romantic, but personal,
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By Tristan Kane There’s a moment in every writer’s life when the story they’re telling stops being about the characters on the page… and starts becoming about themselves. For me, Two Doors Down was that story. I didn’t set out to write a romance novel. I set out to process something I couldn’t quite speak
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