Cupid and multi-genre author Shannon Stacey shares how her lover bought her another lover. Read on to find out how this threesome worked out.
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Nothing calls for over-the-top romantic gestures like Valentine’s Day! Big bouquets of roses, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, extravagant restaurant dinners and diamond rings submerged in flutes of the finest bubbly.
Yeah, I don’t get any of that. No flowers. I buy my own chocolate after it’s clearanced down on the 15th. But I’m okay with that. After all, I could have said no 
when I opened that jeweler’s box almost fifteen years ago and he said, “Well, do you want it?” I knew what I was signing up for, and it wasn’t over-the-top romantic gestures.
But a few years ago, out of the blue, my husband bought me a Valentine’s Day gift. It’s a Don Juan bear from the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory, and I was speechless. (He heard about the bears on our local morning radio show.) Don Juan is fully poseable, with a red-lined black satin cape, a mysterious little mask and a black hat that sits jauntily over one ear. Whether it’s because it’s the cutest teddy bear ever or because it was such a surprise coming from my husband, it’s my very favorite gift from him.
So if you could customize a teddy bear, which romance novel hero would you choose? While I’m quite happy with Don Juan, I’d love a Jamie Frasier bear. He could wear a little kilt. Or maybe a Black Dagger Brotherhood bear, in black leather and little teddy-sized shitkickers.
Who would your bear be? (And, sure, that might be cheesy, but remember…I only get my cheesy Valentine romance vicariously through other people. *g*)
A randomly drawn commenter will win a print copy of either Taming Eliza Jane or Devlin Group: Adrenaline, winner’s choice.
Shannon Stacey
Robin Hood–but it would have to be after Erroll Flynn’s, my first and longest crush. (My mother would make erm… invite us to watch it every time it came on tv!) With a widdle sword, and the widdle cap, and that oh so wicked glint in it’s beady blue eyes! *sigh*
*ahem*
Sorry ’bout that.
A Highland Warrior a’la Gerard Butler!
I’d love and cuddle him forever 🙂
I find actor Mark Strong in Jane Austen’s Emma most fascinating. He isn’t really a beautiful man but he has charisma like no one else and such compelling ways *g*.
Roarke (the Roarke in my book Fiery Fate, not Nora’s Roarke. Though Nora’s Roarke would be pretty damn yummy too.)
You knew I had to say Roarke just for you, Shan. 😉
Ranger from the Stephanie Plum series. He could come with a little Porche Cayenne.
OMG, Sybil found a picture of him! Isn’t he cute?
And can you believe I forgot the best part? When I opened the box my sweetie said he looked like a romance author kinda bear. *g*
A Roarke bear scented with Ranger bodywash might be a good compromise.
Oh gosh, I’d love to have that teddy bear with me all the time! Mine is definitely Mac from RIDING WILD. He’s been with me a few weeks now. Since I read his story, I keep visualizing him riding the motorcycle. Gosh he was so hot! This is a new book by Jaci Burton. I so hope the other guys have their stories. I was hooked on AJ too. But since its just one teddy bear at a time, it is Mac for sure. Sigh…
A Nora Roarke bear, who smells like dark chocolate (that’s how I picture his voice), with blue eyes and dark hair.
I need to read about your Roarke, Jaci!
Well, if Kim gets a Ranger teddy, then put me down for a Joe Morelli.
With or without the gun, makes no never mind to me.
Either a Black Dagger Brotherhood bear, a Dark Hunter bear, or an FDNY bear.
FDNY, mmmmmmmmmm! lol
Hi Shannon, that is a very cute bear! Like Caffey, I think I’d go for a biker bear (no specific character). I’m not so much for bears with clothes, so looser clothes would be good, like a big leather jacket. Complete with the giant zippers and hardware 😉
Not a novel but would love a Batman Bear.
I love bears…so I would any bear would do for me. 🙂
I would make him the heroic firefighter bear.
I would make him a highway man bear. LOL
Definitely, a definitely a BDB bear. With his own Escalade. You could have the leather, lesser fighting model or the Armani and Rolex wearing model with a tiny glass of high end booze.
Love Lora Leigh’s breed heroes, and Callan, from Tempting the Beast, would totally work for me.
Jamie Fraser for sure (although Johnny Depp as Don Juan is HOT!).