NEW YORK — With the release of “One with You,” romance novelist Sylvia Day closes her five-novel Crossfire series, which follows the love story between Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell.
Day said that she’d taken the story of her protagonists — both survivors of childhood sexual abuse — as far as she could.
“I have given them all of the skills that I could possibly give them but they’re at the point where the next step forward is entirely theirs,” she said.
However, it’s too early to say whether her fans are ready to let go of the popular couple. The Crossfire novels, published since 2012, follow Gideon and Eva from June through September of one year.
“You could write dozens of books about this couple. We can follow them through the first year of marriage, their first Christmas together, their first Easter,” said Day, adding that fans would be happy to read about everything from them having children to starting a business.
“One with You” picks up after Eva and Gideon have eloped. Day said the idea was to show how their struggles continued into marriage.
“Especially in writing love stories, there’s always the assumption that once you’ve said, ‘I do,’ once you get to the point where you’re married, well, the hard part is over. In their case, the easy part came before they got married, and getting married created a whole new set of issues for them. It didn’t make their relationship easier. It made it harder,” she said.
