Susan Kaye, a frugal and practical woman, found that writing romantic fiction provided her a more economical sort of midlife crisis than traveling or plastic surgery. "Some women become dissatisfied with their marriages at this time of life. That was not the case for me, but there are times I feel as though I have 'another man' in my life. Writing Frederick Wentworth's side of Persuasion is the closest I have ever come to a romantic interlude!"
