Unconventional Courtship

[paranoidangel]

unconventionalcourtship is back! I spent ages looking through Mills & Boon and Harlequin summaries, until I went mad. Generally at the summaries for being so awful. I wanted to write the gay pirates, but I couldn't find anything that was both silly and subtext. M&B aren't exactly known for their subtext... And then in my saved summaries, for another pairing, I found one that would work for Mr Selfridge, with a bit of a canon divergent AU:

He was the love she lost…
Now he’s back.

When Grace Calthorpe called off her relationship with Gordon Selfridge she thought she’d lost him forever. Now he’s back and both find themselves working at the same wedding. Can the magical setting help heal the past, and allow them both to trust their hearts again…

Obviously in the actual book the answer is yes because it's always yes. Usually when I write these things the answer is no. I haven't yet decided which way it's going to go.

Mirrored from my blog.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

looking through Mills & Boon and Harlequin summaries, until I went mad. Generally at the summaries for being so awful.

LOL! They really are. The only thing to do with them is unconventionalcourtship, really. I'm glad you came up with something in the end.

[liadt]

until I went mad. any other result from looking at the summaries is impossible;p

Hurray for defeating the summaries and getting one that would work. And then deciding to ignore how the story should go. I totally failed at finding anything for gay pirates too *woe*, but I have a summary!

[paranoidangel]

You'd think the gay pirates would be perfect for something like this, but it seems not.

[liadt]

A prime example of a perfect match on paper not working out XD