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[keladry_lupin]

I'm reading yet another cheap romance novel with a tall, gorgeous man who radiates testosterone and sex appeal, and I'm wondering if anyone has ever read one of these novels where the dude is losing his hair. Not the guy who just dumped the heroine; the guy she's going to end up with. If his head is shaved, it's not because he's in the military or is undergoing chemo (not that a sick dude is an ideal hero for a romance novel anyway), it's because his otherwise-gorgeous genes have decided that his hair should be gone by the time he's thirty.

I admit that I haven't read a lot of these novels, so I have very little to go on, but it seems that all the guys in these books are carbon copies of each other. I do realize that it has a lot to do with the fantasy the readers are gladly buying into for the duration of the book. But has anyone ever read about a leading man who broke the mold? How was he different? Unemployed? Crooked teeth? Greasy, shoulder-length hair? Short?

Have I just not found any of them yet, or are they not out there at all? For crying out loud, give me a hero who doesn't look like a Ken doll!