K.T. Wells Nobody's Angel Blog Tour with Giveaway and Guest Post

I am so excited to have K.T. Wells here to talk about What Makes an Ideal Hero in a guest post here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

K.T. is currently touring to promote her newest release Nobody's Angel.

Thanks so much K.T. and Pump Up Your Book Promotion for allowing me to join your blog tour with a Giveaway and Guest Post!

Please take it away, K.T.!

What Makes an Ideal Hero?

Flaws.

Perfection is boring. Well, it is for me, anyway.

Heroes have to overcome inner demons, dark torment, soul-shattering loss or heartache to be interesting and compelling. Every good Romance has a hero that has needs, even if he doesn’t acknowledge them. And every good Romance has a heroine that fills those gaps or helps heal her hero into love.

Our most celebrated love stories have just such heroes. Case in point, everyone’s favorite hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Initially we loathe him. He’s arrogant, self-important, imperious and rude. Not much to recommend him, even if he did have £10,000 per year.

As the story progressed, we, along with Elizabeth, came to understand the basis of his flaws and over time we forgave him, especially as we got to know him better. Slowly he became the man we wanted him to be, the catalystfor his transformation? Elizabeth’s lesson in humility - didn’t we all love when she turned down that first marriage proposal? Darcy had to work to show Elizabeth he was worthy of her and by the end of the book we knew he was the hero we had hoped for the minute she set eyes on him.

The best stories start out with a hero that can’t love, refuses to love or has sworn off a committed relationship. As the layers of his pain are peeled away, we watch his attraction for the heroine morph into something deeper and even then his head refuses to admit what his heart already knows. When finally he realizes the inevitability of his emotions we’ve taken a journey with him from darkness to light.

True, not every hero travels the road of drastic extremes, but the ones that do tend to evoke the strongest reactions out of the reader. Which is why we LOVE Romance!

Author Bio:

K. T. Wells has been telling stories since before she could read. She used to narrate books for her baby brother, concocting a plotline from the pictures. Not much has changed. One of her husband’s favorite pastimes is to listen to her tales after asking her to tell the story of people they observe in restaurants, airports or the subway.

Fascinated by the human condition, K. T.’s writing captures the emotions that drive the engines of our hearts. She is captivated by the rituals of love and believes everyone is entitled to a happily ever after.

Join her in celebrating her first published novel – Nobody’s Angel.

You can visit her at http://ktwells.wordpress.com.

Giveaway Rules

A reader who leave a comment on today’s blog will win a copy of Nobody's Angel (US and Canada eligible only). Contest will be open until 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, March 29th. Please leave your email address in the comments section. Good luck and thanks so much for stopping by!

About Nobody’s Angel

Jake and Angie’s twentieth high school reunion sets the perfect stage for their lifelong friends to reunite the former sweethearts. Major roadblock – they have to trick Angie into coming home after twenty years. An elaborate ruse ensues at the same time they work on browbeating Jake into attending.

Maneuvering through emotional minefields rates a 10 for difficulty level, particularly when Angie lives the maxim: Time does not heal all wounds. And Jake? Check the Wiki pic next to Pride comes before the fall. Yep, that’s him tripping all over himself year after year.

But the firm conviction that these two were meant to be together propels a cast of quirky, determined friends into action. When tragedy derails the best laid plans, will Jake and Angie’s love rise to the occasion?