Bad boys

With bad boys, I can usually go either way. There are ones I really don't like. There are others I'm fascinated by.

A few I really like: Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly (not entirely a bad boy but has tendencies), Daegus from Dark Highlander.

I think what makes a bad boy for me is that they have their own moral code. Yes, they do things that aren't always legal and there is an air of danger about them, but at the same time, there are lines they'd never cross.

My latest release, Settler's Mine 6: The Rogue features a bad boy. LOL I think the title gives it away.

I first met McTavish in the Rivals. He was a surgeon who helped out Layla. Even with that brief appearance, he fascinated me. He longed for so much that he didn't have, I could feel it even then and I knew he was bad. He lived outside the law and off to himself, but I also knew he had morals. After all, he helped Layla. I knew then I would have to write his book but it wouldn't be for a while.

He's waited a long time and not very patiently for his story to be told. He is a bad boy after all, a rogue.

blurb:

Princess Arianna's brother is missing, lost in the dangerous brothels on Batuck. She can't find him alone so she hires a legend to help. When they meet, their heartstones glow. The legend -- the Rogue, a man called McTavish -- is her mate.

Decker's been studying McTavish from behind a desk for years. Catching him is his chance to earn a much-desired promotion in the Union Alliance. Then the Queen, Arianna's stepmother, who is responsible for the prince's disappearance, contacts him with a deal: find her son before McTavish does and use him as bait, and she'll make sure he gets that promotion. Except...

Decker can't stand her actions against her son and turns on the Queen. He contacts McTavish and Arianna to make a deal. The biggest surprise when they meet isn't that he plans to go through with it. It's that his quarry and the princess are his mates.

On the run from a vicious queen, the three must learn what can bond a princess, a law man, and a rogue...in order to save their lives and the throne.

http://www.loose-id.com/Settlers-Mine-6-The-Rogue.aspx

To read an excerpt: http://www.loose-id.com/excerpt.aspx?ID=1238

Mechele Armstrong
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com/