Chloë Goodman is a significant character in the Westmouthshire Universe. She is the female lead in Kissed by a Rose, She is mentioned a few times in Eternally & Evermore, makes a fleeting cameo appearance in A Good Man when Paul & Clarissa visit the university campus and a longer, more significant appearance in A Tortured Soul—a pivotal appearance, actually.
She is mentioned in both The Lies We Lead and The Truths We Live for reasons that should be obvious if you’ve read both of those books and Kissed by a Rose.
And she features heavily in the forthcoming A Wounded Heart. (More on AWH later in the week).
But… Did you trust her when you first met her in Kissed by a Rose?
I make no secret of the fact that my intention when I wrote Kissed was for the reader to not be completely sure if they could trust Chloë or not. So, if you don’t trust her, then that’s “Job Done”, wouldn’t you say? And even her appearance in ATS leaves you not completely trusting her—at least, that was the intention.
But as I near the end of the first draft of A Wounded Heart, Chloë is very clearly a young woman who is comfortable and at ease with her position in life and the world. Finally, I can say that by now, the reader should trust that Chloë’s intentions come from the heart and that her heart really is in the right place.
