I need a hero (okay, another one)

Thanks to everyone for your good wishes about the new baby. It’s nice to be able to share it with folks!

This has been an incredibly busy week for me, with my husband out of town and trying to get this book wrapped up and out the door to my editor. Sometimes I feel like the closer I get to the ending, the further away I am. I get caught up in what I *want* the book to be, and when it turns out differently, I have to decide if I messed up or whether this is genuinely the correct path for the characters to take.

I also have to do the art facts sheet for my characters, and I found this photo of Uma Thurman from the Pink Heart Society blog. When I saw it, she definitely looked like my heroine Isabel MacEgan. The book I’m finishing, The Warrior’s Kingdom, is the third in my Irish warrior trilogy. Ironically, it’s a prequel and not a sequel. And like before, I’m trying to decide upon the right male hero for my book. I thought about Eric Bana, but his eyes don’t have quite the right intensity. Pierce Brosnan is a little too playboyish, and my old stand-by Daniel Day-Lewis just doesn’t quite have the right look. I wish I could just do a google image search for hot Irish men, but I’d probably end up finding er…porn. And let me tell you, there are some frightening Internet images out there.

So, if you could recommend a gorgeous black-haired movie star, preferably with gray eyes, who would you suggest?