“Over the past decade, romance novels have been enjoying an enormous revival, and if you grew up sneaking peeks at your grandmother’s Harlequin paperbacks but haven’t looked at books in the romance genre since, the new crop of stories will surprise you. This time around, the heroines are fierce, the heroes are far more swoon-worthy, and the plots are—gasp!—intelligent. Welcome to the new happily ever after.”

Source: Editor’s Corner: Happily Ever After: The Essentials of Writing a Romance Novel