Everyone has had such great posts lately, I’m feeling lame. At the moment, I’m gathering info and pushing to get things done. I haven’t come up against anything that has me stuck/scratching my head other than the phrase from Michael Hauge via Alice – “Remember the Michael Hague comment when he said that he wants a love story where it's impossible to imagine the two lovers EVER finding happiness with anyone else?”
It made me look at the hero and heroine in my contemporary. Yes, it would take this hero to have seen through the heroine’s ice armor and into her depths because of his past. But, does my heroine really understand his guilt and need for self-vindication? Is she the only one for him? Hmmm… I’ll be thinking about this as I wrap up the last chapters.
Is this something that should have been upper most in my mind as I plotted these characters? Yeah, I think so now and will make it the first thing I think about in upcoming books. But when I read, I don’t think about those things. I’m reading a Super Romance now to see if my contemporary fits that line. I’m thinking it does. Anyway, I can see how the hero is the best thing for the heroine, but again, like with my story, I could see him happy with someone else with less baggage. The past- hers- is what has bound them even though he didn’t know it until 2/3 of the way into the book. He just had a thing for her. And now wants to save her from herself, something he hasn’t been able to do for his father.
Okay, since writing this, I finished the book. It appears that the heroine being in the hero's life did make a difference in his father and ultimately made him want to change things- so I guess in a way the heroine is the best woman for the hero. But I must say the ending of the book fell kind of flat for me.
So does your current story have a hero and heroine who can’t find happiness with anyone else?Why?
