Real Hero (Harlequin Super Romance #1190) by Jean Brashear

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(Mass Market Paperback - March)

  • Pub. Date: March 2004
  • 304pp

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    • Pub. Date: March 2004
    • Publisher: Harlequin
    • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 304pp

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    A Real Hero (Harlequin Super Romance #1190)by Anonymous

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    April 04, 2004: Though Ms. Brashear is a good writer, this particular story is NOT a romance. A heroine who's a former hooker and drug addict, who's 'thin to the point of starvation,' and angrily resists every attempt the hero makes to help her?? Not my idea of a romance, or a hero. No man in his right mind would stick around longer than ten minutes with this woman. I forced myself to read it through Chapter 8. Maybe the story gets better after that.

    A Real Hero (Harlequin Super Romance #1190)by Anonymous

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    April 03, 2004: A Real Hero A Review Like Forest Gump?s momma, my mom always offered gems of wisdom herself. Her favorite, probably, was ?You gotta know the rules before you can break them.? In A Real Hero, Jean Brashear smashes the rules with such success that one can only imagine she must know them by heart. A Real Hero continues her ?Deep in the Heart? series, about families?united families, and families torn apart. This is the story of Hollywood?s hottest new star, Zane MacAllister. Zane?s brothers?curanderos, cops, adventure photographers?all seem to be more worthy of recognition than he himself; his world is a plastic one, all money and image, and his opinion of himself is shattered when a private tragedy becomes public?and inescapable. Still, Zane flees, thinking to hide incognito briefly in the Appalachians, seeking the shelter of those alien mountains before returning to the Davis Mountains in stark west Texas, where he knows he will find true love and refuge. Along the way, however, in a ramshackle roadside store, Zane bumps into Roan O?Hara?a gaunt, defeated rail of a woman, treated like a leper by the store?s unfriendly clerk. When Roan faints in front of Zane?s $60,000 luxury SUV, he realizes that he must offer help?and quickly finds that Roan is unwilling to accept even a candy bar. Brashear?s rule-smashing begins with her choice of characters; any perusal of writing guidelines for publishers such as Harlequin will say to avoid Hollywood types. Throw in a recovering addict as heroine, and you can see why only a devilishly skilled writer could pull off such a story. Romance is the domain of ?happy ever after,? and sympathetic characters let those of us in busy, often harried lives escape. How to sympathize with ?The Sexiest Man Alive? and a junkie? Writing with grit and compassion, Brashear does her usual stellar job, making characters compelling and real?and avoiding the traps of easy solution to impossible problems. Each new ?Deep in the Heart? series makes me wonder how the next can measure up, then has me rereading the other to see which truly is my favorite. The Real Hero settles that question?at least until Jesse?s story, Most Wanted, is released. Then I?ll have to start deciding all over. Mom, she knows the rules. And just how to break them.


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