![]() "She's ambitious, creative and independent, and she has plans for her life that don't include marriage. "Lady Pandora Ravenel is absolutely the most unique heroine I've ever created," Lisa Kleypas tells Bustle. Upon hearing the story of Monopoly's forgotten, overlooked female inventor, Kleypas decided to make her next heroine a board game designer in 1875. While writing the forthcoming novel, Kleypas found herself inspired by Lizzie Magie, the progressive feminist who created "The Landlord's Game" - a board game that would eventually be sold to Parker Brothers by a man named Charles Darrow and rebranded as "Monopoly." Please, take a moment to unrepentantly groan in frustration. ![]() Luckily, the New York Times bestselling novelist already has big plans for 2017: In February, she will release the third installment in The Ravenels series, Devil In Spring. and Lisa Kleypas is definitely a good thing. Sure, the second book in The Ravenels series, Marrying Winterborne, just came out this summer, but in my opinion, you can never get enough of a good thing. ![]() If you're a fan of romance novelist Lisa Kleypas, you're probably already marking down the days until her next novel hits bookstores. ![]()
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