My Favorite Book Boyfriend with Molly O'Keefe and Giveaway

Molly O'Keefe is a RITA-Award winning author with 25 novels in publication. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her family and the largest heap of dirty laundry in North America.

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My Book Boyfriend? Boyfriend implies one. And while I'm totally faithful in real life - in my reading life - I like A LOT of boyfriends. If we were talking about television - this would be fairly easy. I'm watching The West Wing from the beginning and I'll take one of all of those men. Josh, Sam, Toby , Charlie. Those guys are serious boyfriend material with their brains and hearts. Though their schedules are awful, so I might have to rethink that.

But we are talking about books and it's IMPOSSIBLE to decide.

At first, I thought I would write about my original literary boyfriend - Alonzo Wilder from The Little House on The Prairie books. Capable, handsome, good with animals and BONUS! often carried warm apple pie in his pocket - that's a great boyfriend. But all the romance between Alonzo and Laura was entirely in my head. Not so much as a stolen kiss between them. And I want my boyfriends to steal kisses.

So, I started thinking about my favorite romances and the heroes I love in those. And the truth is, what is often so compelling about heroes in the books I love is their wide-scale damage. Zsadist in the Black Dagger Brotherhood books - I love him. Like whoa, I love him. But I don't want to date him. I don't really want to know him. He's terrifying and damaged. Not much fun and so much work. I want my boyfriends to steal kisses and be fun. I'm really picky.

When my book boyfriend and I argue I want to be treated like an equal, but when push comes to shove I want that boyfriend to be ready to go to war on my behalf.

As luck would have it, I was re-reading Meredith Duran's fantastic At Your Pleasure and Adrian Ferrers just leaps off the page for me. Yes, he tortures her during an interrogation. Yes, there are terrible misunderstandings, but when all is revealed, he holds her hand and asks how he can atone. He flirts. He steals kisses. And then he does everything in his power to keep her safe.

At the moment - Adrian is my boyfriend. Ask me tomorrow and it will probably change. That's the fun of Book Boyfriends, they don't get jealous or peeved. They wait quietly on my Keeper Shelf to be re-read.

By candlelight she lures him...

Glittering court socialites and underworld cutpurses alike know that Adrian Ferrers, Earl of Rivenham, is the most dangerous man in London. Rivenham will let nothing—not the deepening shadow of war, nor the growing darkness within him—interfere with his ambition to restore his family to its former glory. But when tasked by the king to uncover a traitor, he discovers instead a conspiracy—and a woman whose courage awakens terrible temptations. To save her is to risk everything. To love her might cost his life.

At swordpoint she defies him...

Lady Leonora knows that Rivenham is the devil in beautiful disguise— and that the irresistible tension between them is as unpredictable as the dilemma in which Nora finds herself: held hostage on her own estate by Rivenham and the king's men. But when war breaks out, Nora has no choice but to place her trust in her dearest enemy—and pray that love does not become the weapon that destroys them both.

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Dallas TV morning show host Madelyn Cornish is poised, perfect, and unflappable, from her glossy smile to her sleek professionalism. No one knows that her iron will guards a shattered heart and memories of a man she’s determined to lock out. Until that man shows up at a morning meeting like a bad dream: Billy Wilkins, sexy hockey superstar in a tailspin—still skating, still fighting, and still her ex-husband.

Now the producers want this poster child for bad behavior to undergo an on-air makeover, and Billy, who has nothing to lose, agrees to the project. It’s his only chance to get near Maddy again, and to fight for the right things this time around. He believes in the fire in Maddy’s whiskey eyes and the passion that ignites the air between them. This bad-boy heartbreaker wants a last shot to be redeemed by the only thing that matters: Maddy’s love.

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