Gwen Hayes

Gwen Hayes writes romance and fiction for younger readers and also teaches story structure to other writers. Let Me Call You Sweetheart is a short contemporary romance in the Come Rain or Come Shine setting, pairing small-town resident Charlotte Jeeves with television actor Jeeves Allencaster. The story uses their shared name, local matchmaking, and his retreat from Hollywood to create a comic courtship while giving both characters reasons to resist the town's expectations. Hayes's novels include Falling Under and Dreaming Awake, and her romance titles range across contemporary and paranormal elements. She is also the author of Romancing the Beat, a craft guide that organizes a romance narrative around key emotional developments. Before publishing for younger readers, Hayes worked as a bookkeeper and began seriously pursuing fiction in 2007. Her catalogue reflects a continuing interest in how characters misread themselves and each other before reaching a more honest relationship, an approach that gives Let Me Call You Sweetheart its mixture of humour, reserve, and gradual trust.