From bodice rippers to romantasy, romance novels are dominating the book market – and rewriting women’s sexual power
(LOS ANGELES) The compulsion started soon after my marriage.
Long before e-books and audiobooks, I furtively read paperbacks whose covers of bosomy maidens and bare-chested men would have outed my obsession. Then, on a family car trip, my husband told my young stepdaughters why I liked sitting alone