When I first conceived (pun intended) this story, I thought Jade would be Canadian. For various reasons, that didn’t pan out, but I knew that her backstory involved a terrible (married!) father who had only offered her financial support and very begrudgingly. For him, everything is transactional.
The other thing I knew I wanted to write was a wedding interrupted by the hero, so I had a lot of questions to answer for myself: How did Jade get pregnant by him? Why didn’t she tell him? Why is she marrying someone else? How does Luca discover that she’s pregnant, that the baby is likely his, and that she is about to marry someone else?
Answering all of those questions got me through the first third of the book. From there, I had to figure out why they don’t trust each other. See above about Jade’s horrible father, but Luca has some darkness in his past that has him convinced he doesn’t deserve happiness.
Of course they find it, but I’ll leave it to you to read the book and discover their journey to HEA for yourself. Enjoy!