Melissa asked Christine Feehan:

It seems that your male characters all seem to be getting darker as your series progress, to the point I see comments on many of your books that your readers see them as borderline or outright abusive, is this a trend with your charactwrs that you plan on continuing? How would you describe these characters?

Christine Feehan First I would like to thank you for the opportunity to address this. I have written a blog here on GoodReads that talks about this as well if you'd like to read that.
None of my heroes are abusive. I understand that it's easy to forget these are not human males, they are a different species with different beliefs and culture. So, if you're new to the series and see these dark heroes for the first time it may seem like a more aggressive behavior, but in fact, it's a species that hasn't adapted to modern life and beliefs.
There's not a trend at all, in my opinion. These Carpathians have always been this way. Look at Dark Desire, the second book in the series. How is he any different? He's not.
Bottom line, I do not write abusive characters. And if someone would like to send me exact passages where they feel that's happening I invite them to do so. They can message me here on GoodReads or add it into the Q&A.

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