And that made the redemption stories each man had individually, and that they found together as a group, so powerful, satisfying and emotional to write. I love writing tortured heroes, and I'm not sure they've ever been more tortured than in this series. Have you ever watched the last episode of a long-running TV show and watched them turn out the lights on the set for the very last time? That's sorta what it feels like inside my head. Like they're places where I've made so many special memories. I can move through the building - the first-floor tattoo shop, the second-floor cavernous gym and the Rixeys' apartment, and the unfinished third-floor apartment - like they're places I've been to many times.
I kinda feel like I've lived in the renovated Hard Ink warehouse with the team for the past two years.
And, of course, much of the setting is in fact based on real places in downtown Baltimore, not far from where I live. The world of Hard Ink is so vividly real in my mind. You would not believe the number of hours I spent Googling "dirty funny T-shirts," but I had so much fun doing it. Nor did I realize when I first wrote him wearing a "Route 69" T-shirt that innuendo-filled T-shirts would end up being one of my and readers' favorite things about the series. He's the brother of the hero from the first book in the series, and I never anticipated the central role Jeremy would end up playing, or how much I would love writing his upbeat personality and dirty humor. Jeremy Rixey's character surprised me in so many ways. My three favorite bromance scenes include Shane and Nick's sparring match/fight in Hard as You Can, Easy's confession to Shane in Hard to Hold On To and Beckett's confession to Marz in Hard to Let Go. At the beginning of the series, the first survivors of an Army Special Forces unit are separated, fragmented and on bad terms, and it was such a joy to put them back together again. I seriously love writing funny, sarcastic and even intense emotional scenes between male characters, and the Hard Ink series gave me room to do that in spades. These are the things I'll miss the most about writing in the Hard Ink world: Which makes it very hard to wrap up the series and say goodbye. I've spent the past two years writing in this world, and the big cast of characters that makes up the series feel like good friends at this point! They're certainly "people" I enjoy spending time with.
The Hard Ink series is the third full series I've finished and the one I'll miss the most (so far!). Laura: I'm thrilled to be visiting the HEA blog today for the release of Hard to Let Go, the last full-length novel in my romantic suspense Hard Ink series and my 20th published novel. HEA welcomes Laura Kaye to share what she's going to miss most about her Hard Ink series, which finishes up with today's Hard to Let Go.
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