{"id":412293,"date":"2026-08-20T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412293\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:46:07","slug":"houston-author-mariah-kingsley-brings-a-fresh-perspective-to-romance-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412293\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston author Mariah Kingsley brings a fresh perspective to romance stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 What makes a love story feel real? For Houston author Mariah Kingsley, it\u2019s the messy, unexpected moments that make her characters come alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">During Romance Awareness Month, Kingsley stopped by \u201cHouston Life\u201d to talk about her writing, the experiences that have shaped her perspective and the re-release of her novel \u201cFractured\u201d the first book in her Broken Series. The story follows two former teenage sweethearts who reconnect 17 years later, giving them another chance at love \u2014 but with plenty of life and change between them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Kingsley describes her work as \u201crealism\u201d rather than simply romance, exploring love, family, forgiveness, healing and second chances through fictional characters and stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Want to hear more from Kingsley? Watch her full conversation in the video above to hear how life experiences shaped her approach to writing romance, and what inspired her to revisit \u201cFractured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0H8ZWWWMF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0H8ZWWWMF\">Fractured is available to purchase on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">To connect with Kingsley, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mariahkingsley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/mariahkingsley.com\/\">mariahkingsley.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 What makes a love story feel real? For Houston author Mariah Kingsley, it\u2019s the messy, unexpected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,1735,57],"class_list":["post-412293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-life","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}