Amnesiac Hero romance books
He's lost everything he was — except, somehow, the way he feels about her.
The amnesiac hero has lost his past and must rebuild himself from nothing. With no memory of who he was — and sometimes no idea whether he was good or dangerous — he's a blank slate haunted by the question of his own identity, and the heroine often becomes the one fixed point as he tries to piece himself back together. The fantasy is being loved for who you are now, with no history to live up to or live down.
He's a dramatic fixture of romantic suspense and soap-operatic contemporary romance, where the missing memory drives mystery and high stakes. He overlaps with the mysterious, tortured, and ghost-from-the-past types, and the romance turns on the suspense of what the returning memories will reveal — and whether love can survive them. The heat ranges from warm to high.
For readers who love mystery, reinvention, and a hero rediscovering himself through love, the amnesiac is a high-drama thrill.
- A hero rebuilding himself after losing all memory of his past
- A dramatic fixture of romantic suspense and contemporary romance
- Identity mystery and the suspense of returning memories
- Overlaps with the mysterious and tortured types