28/05/2026
His Cruelest Moves – Cover Reveal!
The project I’ve almost finished, His Cruelest Moves, which is free to readers of my newsletter, It’s Lamour, explores the same world as His Truest Role. It’s a spin-off story focusing on a secondary character, Isard Muntaner, and his martial arts teacher, Alex Zhao. I’m totally in love with Alex, Isard, and their path to love.
This one isn’t quite full-on enemies-to-lovers, though these guys certainly get off to a bumpy start. It plays with the attraction of opposites, certainly physically—brown and muscular Alex versus slim, pale and elegant Isard—though not as obviously in a cultural sense as you might expect, because both Alex and Isard are born in Catalonia. But they are from different sides of the tracks, with quite contrasting family backgrounds. I’m having loads of fun with it, and I hope you will too.
His Cruelest Moves is a short-form novella (just 20,000 words) and is free to readers of my newsletter, It’s Lamour. It’s quite a challenge to write such a compact story, a bit like designing a Swiss watch (not that I’ve ever done that, but how intricate I imagine the process to be). However, I’m loving the challenge!
The first draft is done, so I’m now revising and polishing it, ready to send to my subscribers. Hopefully it will be hitting your inbox within a week or so.
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And now the big reveal! My brilliant cover designer, Angela Haddon, has just delivered the brand new cover, featuring main character Alex. Here it is:
