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Tessa Bailey | I Don’t Trust Happy Heroes

April 15, 2014

Tessa BaileyUNFIXABLE

I don’t trust Happy Heroes. They have nowhere to go but down – and guess who is along for the ride? You. Nope, no Heroes brimming with positivity for me, thanks. I’ll keep my broody, slightly introverted thinkers, if you don’t mind. As an author, I have the most fun dissecting those men and figuring out what makes them tick. Very seldom do I have them completely understood when I start writing, so I think the reader takes a ride with me that is authentic. I’ve just been on the same roller coaster ride as them and gotten off with my hair blown back.

I like Broody Heroes. A hero who has faced a little adversity in his life, and if he hasn’t, he’s gone out looking for it. Whether it be in law enforcement or on the sports field. Perhaps he’s gone backpacking in Peru or become a Big Brother. Either way, I like a hero who’s seen something in this life and come back from it a different man. He’s not fixed yet, but he thinks he is. He thinks he’s got everything figured out. Then I get to come in and blow that theory to Hell.

Shane Claymore is one such Broody Hero. He is restless and angry when we meet him in UNFIXABLE. This is a young man with a passion, a dream to be bigger than the Dublin inn he was raised in and he’s determined to get out into the world and make something of himself. To prove he can make his aspirations a reality, despite being told he couldn’t do it from a young age. He wants nothing to do with the heroine – oh, except for everything. Which makes him even more angry.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t trust Happy Heroes because I’m not the one that made them that way. Is that so selfish?

Tell us what you like: broody or happy. One commenter will win an e-copy of STAKING HIS CLAIM

About UNFIXABLE

He’s the last thing she wants…but the only thing she needs.

Willa Peet isn’t interested in love. She’s been there, done that, and has the shattered heart to prove it. Ready to shake the breakup, she heads to Dublin, Ireland. But there’s a problem. A dark-haired, blue-eyed problem with a bad attitude that rivals her own. And he’s not doling out friendly Irish welcomes.

Shane Claymore just wants to race. The death of his father forced him off the Formula One circuit, but he’s only staying in Dublin long enough to sell the Claymore Inn and get things in order for his mother and younger sister. He never expected the sarcastic American girl staying at the inn to make him question everything.

But even as Willa and Shane’s fiery natures draw them together, their pasts threaten to rip them apart. Can Shane give up racing to be with the woman he loves, or will Willa’s quest to resurrect the tough-talking, no-shit-taking girl she used to be destroy any hope of a future together?

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