Everyone who understands fiction knows that the romance genre offers stories in which two people (not necessarily a man and a woman anymore!) work through their struggles to achieve a lasting love relationship.  Usually, one of those characters is a heroine, and one a hero.  It’s the hero who interests me in this post.  I’ve been thinking a lot about him lately: in today’s world, who is he, really?  What kind of person can he be in order to both embody the essence of the genre and still be ... VIEW POST