“Renegade Wife,” a Romance novel by Barbara Heinlein, writing as B. J. Daniels: Characters have changing Personalities

“She couldn’t imagine…why she was having trouble remembering all but random moments from the party” (1, p. 8). [memory gaps may be a symptom of dissociative identity, a.k.a. multiple personality]

“If anything, she was more curious about who her husband had been, the real Lucian Beck—if there had been one” (1, p. 88). [She wonders if he had more than one identity.]

“Guess you knew a different man than I did. You sure his name was Lucian Beck?” (1, p. 96).

“That woman he’d kissed and who kissed him back felt as if it had been someone else. She barely remembered that other Geneva Carrington Beck, the one who was still married to Lucian (1 p. 121).

“Shaking his head, he said, “Were you always like this?

“No. I’m terrified of this woman Lucian has made me into” (1, p. 128).

“Lucian.” Geneva stared at the man who walked out of the pines toward her. It was just shy of a week since he’d left her, and yet she barely recognized him…She didn’t know this man. No doubt ever had…” (1, p. 141).

“Who was that woman who’d fired those shots? Not the Geneva Carrington Beck she’d known. This had changed her…She could never go back to being the person she was. Unfortunately, she couldn’t imagine where that left her. Or what she would do” (1, pp. 161-162).

Comment: Is there a psychological connection between the protagonist’s personality change and the author’s writing under a pseudonym? Both may reflect the author’s multiple personality trait.                                                                                                                                 

1. B. J. Daniels. Renegade Wife. Harlequin Intrigue, 2024.