Heroes of Distinction

Billionaires, shifters, bikers, oh my! The romance world is made up of all different characters, but none get readers' attention more than a great heroic lead. Below we asked three authors which type of hero they enjoy writing about the most.

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Jen Frederick

My favorite type of hero to write about is the one I love to read—the hero in pursuit. I grew up reading about the sad heroine who was always pining after the hero. He didn’t realize he loved her until late in the story and it was almost always against his better judgment.

Stephanie Laurens changed that with DEVIL'S BRIDE. In my opinion, that marked a huge shift in the romance landscape and we started seeing more and more heroes who were avidly in pursuit of the heroine. One of my favorites is Shannon McKenna’s BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. The hero, Seth Mackey, is watching Raine Cameron because of her connection with the evil villain. He falls for her almost upon first viewing and can’t her out of his mind. Helen Brooks also writes wonderful hero’s in pursuit. I highly recommend HIS CHRISTMAS BRIDE. When I view each new project, I end up writing a hero in pursuit because those are the stories I love reading.

Jen's newest release, REVEALED TO HIM, features ex-military man Jake Tanner as he pursues (and protects) his heroine.

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Marina Adair

We all like heroes that are built, badass, and dripping with swagger. But I also love writing heroes that are flawed. The best thing about big, bad alpha males, is when they are brought to their knees by a little bit of a woman—or in the case of my latest bookNEED YOU FOR ALWAYS, a sexy food truck chef and her kid sister. There is something so tender about a former special forces guy who is trained to handle anything, only to discover he is being handled when he gets sweet-talked into leading a troop of six year old girls.

Heroes who know where they are going turn me on, and heroes who struggle to overcome loss with fierce determination tug at my heart strings.

Meet Marina's newest flawed-to-perfection hero Ranger Dax in NEED YOU FOR ALWAYS, out now.

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Loreth Anne White

The type of hero I love writing most? A damaged alpha, hands down. And I’m all about second chances. I find incredibly romantic the idea of a scarred man, battle-worn, someone who is headstrong and driven and filled with life experience, but he’s also been badly broken in some way. He’s a man who has has loved, and lost love, either by acts outside of his control, or his own screw- ups. And when he meets my heroine, he’s not certain that he even deserves a second chance. He’s not certain that he can do it right this time. And he knows from first hand experience just how much is at stake in opening his heart to the possibilities of new love, how wrong things can go. How much it can hurt. But when he does, he is fiercely determined to get it right the second time, to not screw up again. And he’s also ready—truly ready—to make a commitment to stick around through thick and thin, because life, he has learned, is short, and precious.

And he wants that happy ever after.

In IN THE WANING LIGHT Loreth embraces the second chance romance as Meg Brogan returns to her home town and into the arms of her high-school sweetheart Blake Sutton.

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