The outside world may have soured but here, time stands still and the appetite for such escapist romantic fiction remains undimmed. Of course he does!įor in Mills & Boon land, cowboys are always noble and rugged, hunky doctors still chase pretty nurses around the wards and snakes of lust uncoil anew in the duchess’s heaving creamy breast. It is the cockle-warming story of a handsome cowboy called Wayne Black who finds a baby with china-doll cheeks abandoned on the steps of his ranch one fine morning. On the boardroom table in front of us, there is a stack of the company’s best-sellers, including The Rake And The Heiress, Valentino’s Pregnancy Bombshell, Unfinished Business With The Duke and - my favourite - Proud Rancher, Precious Bundle. Here in the Mills & Boon bubble, we are deep in sex talk. To discover the truth, I travel to the mothership of mass market romantic fiction a place where bodices are still ripped and ravishing men and women are willingly ravished, on the page and off it. The real trouble starts, says Martin Amis, when emotion meets sex on the page
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