Today I am talking about What Makes a Strong Heroine?
It takes a special kind of woman to cope with all the flak, so it was interesting to consider what kind of qualities a woman might need to deal with situations where she could face anything from misogynistic remarks to having hot dogs thrown at her. Fire and Ice‘s heroine, Hannah Wade, has faced down opponents on the world stage when she was part of a World Championship gold-medal-winning hockey team, so she’s got grit. She’s been raised by a feminist university lecturer single mother, so she’s been raised to believe that she shouldn’t rely on a man. She’s quick-witted, yet kind, and on her way to (re)discovering what God says about her, all of which make for a complex character who is able to go toe-to-toe with some of the dinosaurs she works with at her new job at a TV station.
Add to all this the challenges of a forbidden romance – how can a sports reporter be unbiased when she has and the new hockey import share a past? – and you get a story that explores some of the challenges faced by female sports reporters today, and shows that as strong as we might like to think we are, we all need someone to help us through the tough times in life – and Someone to give deeper purpose to our lives.
Here’s some more about Fire and Ice:
Hannah Wade loves sports, so when injury is swiftly followed by an opportunity to be one of Calgary’s first female sports analysts, she jumps at the chance. Trouble is, some of the old dinosaurs she works with thinks she’s nothing but a pretty piece of fluff, there to add ratings and stir controversy among the fiercely loyal hockey fans. She longs for the chance to prove herself, so when an opportunity comes along to interview newly traded defenseman Franklin James, she meets him, with disastrous effect.
Growing up with three sisters means Franklin thought he knew something about women, but nothing had ever prepared him for the sparkling firecracker that is Hannah. And yet her vibrant personality holds a sweetness and soft side, something that draws his interest and protectiveness when an interview goes south.
Can these two overcome prejudice and see a way forward? And what has faith – or the lack of – got to do with anything?
Fire and Ice is the first book in the new Northwest Ice hockey romance series, a sweet and swoony, slightly sporty, Christian contemporary romance series, perfect for fans of Becky Wade, Courtney Walsh and Susan May Warren.
Grab your copy at Amazon and Other retailers.
Want to read about some more strong heroines and women who overcome the odds? Then check out the Original Six series, with the ebooks all 99c for a limited time. Get your copy at Amazon or other retailers: The Breakup Project, Love on Ice, Checked Impressions, Hearts and Goals, Big Apple Atonement and Muskoka Blue.
