'Elenie tipped her chin to search his face. She looked genuinely taken aback. He was close enough to see the flecks, like speckles on a bird’s egg, in the gray of her irises, and wondered what it would take for her to look at him with less suspicion.'
Why did I create a fictional small town setting in the US when I live in the UK? Simple. I had this mental image of some key scenes in More Than Nothing taking place in a diner - and transferring these to an English café just didn't work for me! And so Pine Springs was born.
'His face wasn’t perfect. It was a little too drawn, hollowed around the cheekbones, and the fine line of a well-healed scar ran just below the curve of his jaw, yanking him by the collar out of ‘Aftershave Ad’ territory and into ‘I’ve Seen Some Things In My Time.’'