My Thoughts
Stephen is Viola's least favorite author as he writes books with an extremely violent main character. When she ends up on a speaking panel with him there is quite the chemistry there. She remembers that chemistry well while he shows no recollection of her. He asks her out and she turns him down. Then his friend mentions who her father is and that summer they spent together comes back into his mind. He tries again to get her to meet with him and she agrees. That's when the feelings they had years ago come flooding back to both of them. Stephen has a secret and when it comes out it may cause Viola to run. Something happened to her in the past that makes things much more complicated for them. Plus there is that whole lie that her father did to separate them years ago and his anger at them being together now.
Stephen and Viola are over the top hot together and I loved that she was open to trying to share in his secret and that he was so very patient and kind with her as she dealt with some serious issues with it. I felt so bad for Viola and all she suffered, but I loved that Stephen was there to help her work through it. I loved that their affection for books brought them together even if she was his harshest critic. I so enjoyed their second chance love story.
I give The Dangerous Hero 4 hearts!
Stephen and Viola are over the top hot together and I loved that she was open to trying to share in his secret and that he was so very patient and kind with her as she dealt with some serious issues with it. I felt so bad for Viola and all she suffered, but I loved that Stephen was there to help her work through it. I loved that their affection for books brought them together even if she was his harshest critic. I so enjoyed their second chance love story.
I give The Dangerous Hero 4 hearts!
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About the Book
I want it all. Whips and chains. Hearts and kisses.
Viola was the first woman I ever tied up. We had one of those brief but intense summer romances.
OK, so I screwed that up. But now, years later, I've got a second chance.
The thing is, she doesn't trust me. I write novels about a brutal spymaster whose craving for blood and torture is insatiable. Hidden in my home is an authentic medieval dungeon. I'm a connoisseur of finely-wrought leather floggers, silken ropes, the restrictive corset, the binding cuff.
I don't mean to frighten her. But hey, I want it all. Whips and chains. Hearts and kisses. Mastery and submission, pleasure and pain. I'm looking for that special partner--somebody to torment, somebody to love.
The door to my dungeon is open. It is up to her to walk in.
The Dangerous Hero is a contemporary romance novel by USA Today bestselling author and Rita Award Winner, Linda Barlow.
Viola was the first woman I ever tied up. We had one of those brief but intense summer romances.
OK, so I screwed that up. But now, years later, I've got a second chance.
The thing is, she doesn't trust me. I write novels about a brutal spymaster whose craving for blood and torture is insatiable. Hidden in my home is an authentic medieval dungeon. I'm a connoisseur of finely-wrought leather floggers, silken ropes, the restrictive corset, the binding cuff.
I don't mean to frighten her. But hey, I want it all. Whips and chains. Hearts and kisses. Mastery and submission, pleasure and pain. I'm looking for that special partner--somebody to torment, somebody to love.
The door to my dungeon is open. It is up to her to walk in.
The Dangerous Hero is a contemporary romance novel by USA Today bestselling author and Rita Award Winner, Linda Barlow.
About the Author
Linda Barlow is the author of 23 novels in various genres, including family sagas, historical and contemporary romance, romantic suspense, erotic romance, and general mainstream fiction.
Publishers have included Doubleday, Dell, Penguin, Warner Books, New American Library/Signet, Berkley/Putnam, Silhouette and Harlequin. Her books have been translated into approximately 20 foreign languages.
Her romances have won numerous industry awards, including the Rita from Romance Writers of America (1989), Best New Historical Romance Author from Romantic Times (1986) and a Lifetime Achievement award from Romantic Times. She also contributed two essays to Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, a collection of scholarly essays on the enduring appeal of the romance. This book won the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture and American Culture in 1993.
Linda is now indie publishing and loving it! She is updating her backlist and writing new novels, too. The first book to be rewritten and indie-published is the new edition of her classic historical romance, Fires of Destiny, which was a finalist for the Rita Award in 1987 (available now!).
Linda served as President of Novelists, Inc. in 1992 and did two three-year terms on the Executive Council of the Authors Guild in the 1990s. She was Romance Writers of America’s keynote speaker at the annual conference in 1989.
When she is not at her computer writing, she is likely to be reading. She can't imagine what her life would be like without books!
Publishers have included Doubleday, Dell, Penguin, Warner Books, New American Library/Signet, Berkley/Putnam, Silhouette and Harlequin. Her books have been translated into approximately 20 foreign languages.
Her romances have won numerous industry awards, including the Rita from Romance Writers of America (1989), Best New Historical Romance Author from Romantic Times (1986) and a Lifetime Achievement award from Romantic Times. She also contributed two essays to Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, a collection of scholarly essays on the enduring appeal of the romance. This book won the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture and American Culture in 1993.
Linda is now indie publishing and loving it! She is updating her backlist and writing new novels, too. The first book to be rewritten and indie-published is the new edition of her classic historical romance, Fires of Destiny, which was a finalist for the Rita Award in 1987 (available now!).
Linda served as President of Novelists, Inc. in 1992 and did two three-year terms on the Executive Council of the Authors Guild in the 1990s. She was Romance Writers of America’s keynote speaker at the annual conference in 1989.
When she is not at her computer writing, she is likely to be reading. She can't imagine what her life would be like without books!
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