DIK bandwagon

Ok, following suit in blogland, here are my DIKs (one more than six and in no particular order):

Slow Heat In Heaven by Sandra Brown – Hot, hot, hot. I have a thing for bayou romance and dominate heroes. Brown and perhaps Linda Howard were my only source for them until I landed in blogland. Whew, found you guys just in time.

The Prize by Julie Garwood – So difficult to pick just one from Garwood’s historicals—they all took my breath away. I’m going with this one solely based on the memory of that moment when Nicholaa picked Royce at court. “Checkmate.”

Promises Linger by Sarah McCarty – Asa. Patient and good-humored. Nothing sexier to me than a man with those traits. Oh, and my first taste of erotic romance. Bout fell off the couch when I got to those scenes.

Crazy Cool by Tara Janzen – Superman. Like Lori, I love his internal dialogue. I love how he loves his woman. And yes, he is a superhero in every way.

Tiger Eye by Marjorie Liu – My welcome to the paranormal. I’d read others, but none came close to sparking my interest like this one. So beautifully written, such powerful characterization. If not for this one, I would have likely given up on the genre and missed out on other standouts like Nalini Singh, Maria V. Snyder and J.R. Ward.

Pearl Cove by Elizabeth Lowell – I read this one long before fellow bloggers introduced me to Anne Stuart’s dark heroes. And that is exactly what Archer Donavon is—a similarly dark hero—harsh, intimidating, unrelenting—but written well enough to captivate reader and heroine alike. Unfortunately, Lowell didn't come close to repeating in any other title I've read from her.

Cheating now, but I can’t leave off Naked In Death by J.D. Robb. I could relive that breath-hitching, on-the-edge-of-something-great feeling a gazillion times with this one.

On to DIK heroes:

Suzanne Brockmann’s Cosmo (Hot Target). Patience, quiet strength, iron will. Hidden sense of humor. While his story didn’t rock my world, the image Brockmann gave me of Cosmo certainly did. Still does.

Julie Garwood’s Brodick (Ransom). Again, patient. Quiet, albeit brute, strength. Iron will. And humor, oh my.

Christian Hawkins, a.k.a. Superman from Tara Janzen (Crazy Cool). Nothing masked or artificial about this hero. Completely unabashed when it comes to loving his woman.

Roarke – Likely the only romance hero known universally by his single name. If there were a hall of fame….Lori, Lori, Lori...trust the rest of the universe.

Bastion from Anne Stuart’s Black Ice – Unapologetic. Unredeemed even. Don’t know what it is about this hero, to like him is to defy good sense. But there it is. To me, everything in him the woman in me should loathe, calls to me instead. Not sure how Stuart does it, but she succeeds where others (like Shannon McKenna) fail (for me anyway).

Jed O’Neil from Gennita Low – Sensing a pattern for me here…the higher the “asshole” potential, the deeper their appeal. Low succeeds much like Stuart in this; Jed is utterly ruthless and downright unapologetic. And I can still remember how I flew off the couch when his identity was revealed in Virtually His. Gasping.