

We have bared our deepest, ugliest secrets to one another. Ours is both a refuge from the storm and the most violent of tempests. Staying married to him is the fight of my life. Falling in love with him was the easiest thing I've ever done. She writes in one fictional universe that includes all her characters, Day says, “so, we’ll see them again for sure and we can look forward to that.”įollow Lauri Neff online at Cross. The relationship didn’t work the first time around.” She said the issue becomes, “What do you do if the baggage you’re bringing into a relationship is given to you by the person you’re having the relationship with?”ĭay said she realizes it’s not a given that Crossfire fans will cross over to her Blacklist series, but said it’s her “job to make you love it more than you loved Crossfire and I’m game for the challenge.”Īnd for the hopeless romantics still stuck on Gideon and Eva, Day says her new series is set in New York, as are the Crossfire books. “Then we see them later - they’re damaged by things that they did to each other. “It starts with Kane and Lily in college,” Day said. It made it harder,” she said.Īt the end of “One with You” is an excerpt of her next book, “So Close,” from her new Blacklist series, which follows Kane Black and Lily over a decades-long relationship. It didn’t make their relationship easier.

In their case, the easy part came before they got married, and getting married created a whole new set of issues for them. “Especially in writing love stories, there’s always the assumption that once you’ve said, ‘I do,’ once you get to the point where you’re married, well, the hard part is over. Day said the idea was to show how their struggles continued into marriage. “One with You” picks up after Eva and Gideon have eloped. We can follow them through the first year of marriage, their first Christmas together, their first Easter,” said Day, adding that fans would be happy to read about everything from them having children to starting a business.

“You could write dozens of books about this couple. The Crossfire novels, published since 2012, follow Gideon and Eva from June through September of one year. However, it’s too early to say whether her fans are ready to let go of the popular couple.
