Ripped from recent headlines: “Female Teacher Allegedly Has Illicit Relationship With a Student!”
His Story: “I could have any chick at West Dade Senior High, but I went after the one I was told couldn’t be broken, Ms. Patrick, my English teacher and my coach’s ex-wife. It started with me proving something to myself, but ended with me trying to prove to her that I was all the man she’d ever need.”
Her Story: “I struggled to treat him like any other student. All I asked was that he arrive to class on time and I encouraged him to complete class assignments. However, the lustful way he looked at me, the intimate things his words implied, and the way his fingers taunted my skin, was powerful enough for me to put my career on the line.”
The Truth: A thirty-two-year-old teacher entered an inappropriate relationship with a student, but what the headlines didn’t say was that the student, Theo Lakewood, was eighteen (of legal age), extremely handsome, a senior, and a star basketball player at West Dade Senior High, relentlessly pursued her, ceaselessly studied her, and painstakingly seduced her. Of course she could’ve ignored his advances, but she welcomed him with open arms. Only a Fly on the Wall would know exactly how he conquered her.
Ever wish that you were a Fly on the Wall? Wish no more. Spread your wings and get ready to read all of the juicy forbidden details from behind closed doors with Theo and Paige. (In Bookstores Feb. 2006)
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If you doubt it, consider these numbers compiled by Avon Books, one of the world's largest mills of romance titles and an imprint of the giant HarperCollins publishing house:
Romance fiction has annual sales of $1.41 billion worldwide.
Half of all paperback books sold internationally are romance titles, and a third of all popular fiction sales are romance titles.
64.6 million Americans read romance fiction, 22 percent of them men.
Further, a look at a recent New York Times best-sellers list for paperback books
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. has purchased the assets of BET Books, the publishing arm of the U.S.-based Black Entertainment Television, the company announced Thursday.
The new ownership deal is expected to close Nov. 30. Financial details were not released. The addition of BET Books, a leading publisher of African American women's fiction and the imprints Arabesque, Sepia and New Spirit to the Harlequin portfolio will enhance the position of Harlequin within a strong growth segment in the American book market.
"This acquisition supports a key strategic initiative for Harlequin of offering greater breadth in publishing niches that can create future growth
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Actresses over 40 may find it hard to get work in Hollywood, but U.K. and U.S. romance book publishers are featuring middle-aged heroines.
Mills & Boon, the world's largest publisher of romantic fiction, and Britain's Transita are among the publishers offering books for readers no longer interested in tales of young love, reported the Sunday Telegraph.
Transita has produced 14 books in six months for older women readers.
Women in their mid-40s and early 50s have now become the target audience, said Jenny Haddon, the president of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Not only do they have the time to read books they also
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