Imogen Blake

A thousand dangerous hearts, ready for the reader to fall for. Every dark romance needs a world worth risking yourself for: the crime lord who ends a rival with a leaked file and calls it mercy, the enforcer still guarding the boss's daughter long after the money runs out and unable to say why, the survivor who stays awake past reason because the memories come loose in the dark, the old flame whose timing is uncanny, back in the doorway the week a new love turns real.
Conjuring a whole dangerous world is hard enough. Hiding a love inside it that the reader falls for as hard as the lovers do - desire that costs something, want that refuses to behave - is slower, colder work still. 1000 Characters for Your Dark Romance Novel hands you the cast already dangerous. Across fourteen themed chapters you'll meet a thousand named figures - heroines and antiheroes, rival suitors and crime lords, protectors and betrayers, wounded survivors and the schemers who move them like pieces - and every one arrives with a face, a want, and a line they will cross for the right person. Inside you'll find:  1, 000 dark romance characters, organised into 14 browsable chapters A clear want and a story seed for every entry, so each one arrives plot-ready A cast built for danger and heat: lovers, rivals, protectors and traitors who each keep a secret the bond may not survive Recurring rivals, families and series cast to carry a couple through book after book A craft method that treats every character as a doorway, not a finished figure, with an exercise in every chapter for making them your own  Whether you're drafting your first mafia romance or filling out a beloved series, this is a character-creation companion you'll reach for with every book. Open it, and give someone something to lose.