Originally Posted by Difflugia
This may stretch both your ideas of "hero" and "secret identity", but I much enjoyed the Scepter'd Isle series by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis. The books in the series are set during the lifetime of Queen Elizabeth I and presuppose a world of elves and such that exists alongside our own. The hero of the first book is an elf playing the role of a minor human noble while protecting members of Elizabeth's family. He's still a main character in the later novels, but "hero" becomes much more of a group effort.
The books are available from the Invasion Baen CD. |