I love creating mood boards for my stories. In fact, I can spend way too much time on them. Here’s one for my contemporary romance, Saving Mansfield Park:
American Finley Bertram, a modern-day descendant of Fanny Price, wants to renovate the rundown estate of Mansfield Park she’s inherited in England, but she’s faced with renovating her life at the same time. After failing the bar exam and breaking off her engagement with an overbearing fiancé, she’s riddled with self-doubt, not sure she can even deal with a plumbing leak, much less fix up a massive estate. To turn the place into a successful wedding venue business, she’ll have to keep it out of the hands of the devious Caro Bingley, head of the Bingley hotel chain. while trying not to go broke with a money pit of a house. Throw in a ditzy ghost, a cranky swan, a lost pug, a talented chef sister with a tendency to set the kitchen on fire, plus the distraction of a handsome landscape architect, and Finley has her work cut out for her.
Dee Garretson 