I love men! The sexier, the more extroverted, the better. I love to read and to write about
confident men who understand themselves, even their own flaws, and who
definitely know their way around a bedroom—and while they’ve had plenty of
women, they understand the primal, sacred function of physical love with the right woman. Anyone who’s read a Bronwyn Scott novel won’t
be surprised to note that some of my favorite cinematic and literary heroes
include in no particular order of preference, because, really, how could anyone
be expected to decide between these hot alpha heroes?
Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind)
Maximus
(Gladiator)
Hawkeye (Last of the Mohicans)
Jamie Fraser (Outlander)
Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
What do all of these heroes have in common? They understand the worlds they live in, they
understand themselves and most importantly, they understand that quite often
those two things don’t mix. They are all
men who are comfortable in their own skin, comfortable with their personal
moral codes and they know abiding by
those codes puts them at great risk.
Their one weakness? Whether or
not they can risk including others in those codes. Can they afford to love? Can
they ask another to share that code and walk the paths they’ve chosen? These
men are responsible with their affections and when they fall, they fall
hard.
Each of my heroes embody a little slice of the qualities
these men represent. Some of my recent
favorite heroes include Dorian Rowland from “A Lady Dares.” He’s a
social outcast, he doesn’t even live in England, and he makes no apologies for
it. There’s no happy reconciliation and reintegration for him at the end of the
book (spoiler alert!) and the woman he loves, Elise Sutton, has to decide where
her loyalties for a life time lay—with Dorian, or in England with the life
she’s been raised to live. She cannot have both. Another recent favorite is Kitt Sherard in my
upcoming Caribbean duet—he has sacrificed everything, even his own identity for
the sake of family. Can he ask a woman to live with that?
Do you think you can craft a hot alpha hero? Give it a shot! Enter the Mills and Book
craft a hero contest. http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/historicalheroes-writing-competition-details
Here’s the link, so get busy!! You can do it.
Bronwyn
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