Traditionally, the romance novel hero is the Byronic type--dark and brooding, writhing inside with all the residual anguish of his shadowed past. He's world-weary, cynical, quick-tempered and prone to fits of guilt and depression. He is strong, virile, powerful, and lost. Adept at many things that carry with them the respect and admiration of the world (particularly the world of other males), he is not fully competent in the arena where women excel--the arena of his emotions, which are violently out of control.
Linda Barlow in Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women edited by Jayne Ann Krentz, 1992
Linda Barlow in Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women edited by Jayne Ann Krentz, 1992
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