The Love Writes series of novels takes us on a journey of self-discovery with young writer Chloe Owen as she struggles to understand herself, her desperation to be a writer and the mind-bending torments of love.
Beginning in the throes of a passion she doesn't quite understand, Chloe's life is turned around as pressures from friends, unexpected success with her writing, false hopes and false loves take her further and further from what her heart desires.
The series of five young adult novels follows Chloe through the fun and games of young adulthood as she learns about love the hard way, torn by mistakes and self-sacrifice.
The first book in the series gives Chloe an initial glimpse of happiness that she will struggle to find again and it will be painful years before she gets close to what she truly desires.
Heartwarming and by turns both funny and sad, the novels probe questions of how important writing is to the creative mind, how it helps form the self and self-confidence and asks what the relationship is between romantic idealism and a heart that is ready for lasting love.
Crazy crushes, Romantic poems, and the troubled twists of true, true love
Meet Chloe Owen —a teenaged Bridget Jones with an ache to be Anne of Green Gables. Join her for the first book in thinking girl's high school romance series ...
Chloe’s desperate to be a writer. She’s got big thoughts on the big questions: Who am I? What is love? Why aren’t today’s guys true Romantics?
She’s got one boy in her sights, on her mind and in her heart. Secretly in love for what seems like forever. But he’s a boy none of her friends can approve of — Quiet, serious and look at the clothes he wears — what are you doing Chloe?
She’s shy about her affections and her writing. When her best friend finds her top top secret love poems she has to lie about who they’re about. In a terrible and embarrassing joke, those soulful poems disappear only to reappear online for everyone to read.
As Chloe is cringing, the romantic verses actually prove a Valentine’s day hit — especially with the one guy everyone’s allowed to fancy. As the school’s swaggering drama god starts quoting what she’s written, Chloe begins to think her fantasy poems might be the route to a genuine date. So maybe .... No, he’s way out of her league, surely. Or is he the wild Romantic she’s been hoping for?
Chloe takes a step into the thrilling world of the trophy boys and her friends are astonished and impressed. In a secret corner of her heart, though, is the quieter love she can never forget. In a cruel twist, her best friend starts taking an interest in that long-loved secret crush, and Chloe has to sacrifice her own feelings to write poems that bring them together.
How can things ever work out now? Tormented by the twists of love, Chloe’s romantic ideals and sacrifices land her in rivalries too hot to handle and as she learns about herself, writing, self-confidence and love, she faces a fight for the truths in her soul.
Perfect pantomime seductive scripts and the last loving kiss for Cinderella
The second book in Chloe Owen’s coming-of-age series. A journey into womanhood as a budding writer and a desperate romantic.
After a whirlwind summer and all her romantic dreams coming true, Chloe Owen’s imagining there'll be more more more. But a genuine, real-life boyfriend can only give so much, even the long-term longed-for Robert. While Chloe’s wondering if her true-love might be drifting away, she’s sucked into the biggest challenge yet for her writing ambitions -- scripting the college’s Christmas pantomime. As the production gets more and more ambitious, though, Chloe can feel the old stage-frights shaking her soul.
The newbies at the College Pantomime are a startling bunch. A masked man, a Brazilian Princess and a hot pirate hero all stoke up the Christmas fun in the theatre. Crowbarring studious Robert in among them is meant to test his passionate depths and prove their love. Before long, though, the jealousies start to grow and the cracks of secrecy start showing. Upsets, misjudgements and rivalries send Chloe’s hopes out of control again. As the perfect production becomes increasingly vital, there comes a more mysterious way to test her fairy-tale romance.
Dreamy, agonised, and too romantic for her own good, Chloe Owen gets more than she bargained for in this second book of the coming of age YA romance series, Love Writes. Follow our ever-hopeful hopeful heroine through angsty relationships and ambitious stagecraft as she learns lessons of love and loss, life’s dramas and people’s many performances.
Forthcoming
Chloe wins the chance to attend a summer writing college, where her past begins to catch up with her.