This past weekend we celebrated the men in our lives who are dads. The guys who teach bike riding, car pool us to events and make every day a little better just by being there for us. I know lots of great dads in real life. And of course, romance has some fantastic fathers as well. Here is a list that contains just a few of my favorites.

It seems like heroines can have awful fathers. Whether it is the abusive dad of Mary Balogh’s Gilded Web or the father who just can’t care enough about his family to take care of them as in Amanda Quick’s Scandal, our heroines often seem to have fathers that have us wishing them orphans. […]