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The Strong, Silent Type: Soleil Brodeur

Just like in real life, women are different from one another in a variety of ways. We all have our own strengths. Our own priorities, needs, wants. We are individual. I like for my heroines to reflect that. Some of my heroine’s kick butt. Some of them are fiercely protective of their family. Some are nurturers and some are loners. Strength and courage, derived from love, can make any woman a heroine. No matter how that strength manifests itself.

I love Soleil. To me, she’s a layered character. She feels real even though she is so different. She’s a lonely woman, orphaned, living in hotels. Her closest relationship was with her attorney, a father figure she rarely saw, but remained in touch with. She moved a lot. She found a way to put feeling in her life by becoming an adrenaline junkie. She took chances. All of that worked in Ice’s favor.
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Once Soleil realized her life was in danger and she, most likely, would be killed, she had nothing to lose. She couldn’t go to local authorities because she didn’t know who to trust. Her closest confidant was dead. The man she was in a relationship with was the one trying to kill her. Where do you run to? What do you do?

Soleil didn’t stray too far from the life she knew and the woman she’d always been. Meeting Ice was an adventure. Ice was a fantasy. An adrenaline rush. If your days are numbered, make them count. Soleil was determined to have him.

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Ice was in a motorcycle club with people he considered family. Soleil had always wanted to be in a family. The allure of having him was a temptation that stripped her inhibitions and emboldened her resolve. The problem? She wasn’t willing to put her dangerous burden onto this man who was offering her exactly everything she’d wanted her whole life. This man and his family of brothers and sisters were willing to take her in, protect her, make her one of them. They were caring. Ice was sweet. She wasn’t about to put a target on his back and endanger Torpedo Ink.

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I loved that she was offered the world. Offered protection. Yet, she couldn’t allow herself an easy way out by putting others in danger. That’s a heroine.
Of course, she had a lot to learn about Torpedo Ink. All she had to do is learn to trust.