![]() ![]() Next comes Viscount Francis Rohan ( Ruthless, August 2010), the survivor of Culloden and thoroughly decadent exile in France, whom I didn’t think was all that wicked, despite Publisher’s Weekly’s horror. ![]() He’s a bit of a charmer and sets the Rohan lineage down a path of excess and notoriety that will have repercussions for generations (and books!) to come. First comes Alistair in The Wicked House of Rohan, lounging in Venice, seducing a down-on-her-luck governess and helping to form the notorious Heavenly Host, my take on the Hellfire Club. Thoroughly bad men who are nonetheless irresistible. ![]() But more recently my historical heroes were charmers, rakes and knights.īut then came the House of Rohan. ![]() I’ve done it before, looong ago, with a couple of out of print romances that still get mentioned by some as standouts in the genre. Dangerous spies and assassins have a good excuse for their darkness, what with saving the free world and all that.īut how do you carry off a decadent aristocrat who’s rich, gorgeous, and fabulous in bed, but is still bad, bad, bad? I tend to specialize in dark heroes-men who kill and women who love them-but they tend to show up in my contemporaries, not my historicals. By Anne Stuart, author of The Wicked House of Rohan and Ruthlessīeginning with The Wicked House of Rohan (a FREE online prequel to my Fall 2010 historical romances) I pose this question.Īnswer: It all depends on who blinks first. ![]()
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