Jessie is looking for books that feature heroes with white streaks in their hair:
I’ve got a co-worker who’s getting married soon. Her fiancé has a white streak in his hair, and I told him that a lot of heroes in romance novels have white streaks. He got really excited and wants to give her a collection of them as a wedding gift. Now, when I said “a lot,” I was really only thinking of one (A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James).
Would it be possible for you to ask the Bitchery for heroes (or heroines) with white streaks in their hair? Extra points if it’s shown on the cover.
I remember reading a romance where the heroes were twins, and one was rather villainous. At the end, some major shock turned a lock of the villain-twin’s hair white so they weren’t identical any longer (which is so biologically impossible, I don’t know how I thought that was real). Do I remember the book title? No, but that’s the only white-forelock character I remember.
Anyone have any book title suggestions?
@cleo: Yes! The mercy fuck! The lilac/lavendar in the house that he thinks is a cold and she knows is just allergies. I loved that dialogue exchange: “Grudge fuck.” “Mercy hump.” 🙂
Liked that book a lot. Loved what it said about magazine culture. Loved the fucked up mother/uncle relationship. I really liked the two main characters (esp. his soup commercial with all the different types of lovers eating soup). I think Princess Daisy was the better book, but I *liked* I’ll Take Manhattan.
Christine Merrill’s The Inconvenient Duchess has a hero with “Dark hair, with a streak of grey at each temple, and a face creased by bitterness and hard living.”
I haven’t actually finished reading it yet, but it’s cool you can grab it for free at TryHarlequin.com. (Thanks for the tip, Sarah!)
I’m coming in a bit late here but I had a rec worth noting: WOVEN DREAMS by N.J. Walters has a hero that gains a white steak in his hair due to a near death experience that occurs before this book starts. This is an Elora’s Cave title, and is therefore highly erotic (read: menage), but I believe it’s available in both ebook and paperback. The series is quite good, actually.
It’s not exactly a romance novel, but one of my favorite YA books features a main character with a streak of white hair. It’s called Quest for a Maid. Lovely book.
Lucy Sharpe. Roxanne St. Claire’s Bullet Catcher series.
I’m not sure of a romance novel, but the Belgariad books by David Eddings feature a strong female character with a white lock.
Ain’t Misbehaving by Jennifer Greene