Harlequin romance novels are specifically targeted at women readers and cater to their sensibilities. Romance novels must have at least two features in order to be called a romantic novel or romance novel. There should be display of love and affection between the two main characters (strictly of opposite sex), romantic situations and entanglements and a happy ending with future for both of them together. No teenage girl or young woman needs to be told about Mills & Boon romances which fire the fantasies of love in the minds of the girls. Even mature ladies derive significant pleasure from these lovely novels. Harlequin is also another brand from the same stable.
Harlequin romance novels have novelists who are residents of the different parts of the world. Therefore the reader gets mesmerized reading about either a mean rugged man in his Texas ranch, seemingly ignoring the call of love one day and on the next day,
a lovely story in the cold holiday season in Amsterdam, where the young girl has just met a taciturn Dutchman who is strangely reluctant to love. Contemporary Harlequin romance novels deal with instant love and instant desire.
Let My Dear Valentine explain. In the modern world, everything is available at a price and love is not beyond the clutches of money or power. But in spite of power plays and careerist women climbing up the corporate ladder through love, some find true love. Harlequin depicts such vagaries of love with élan.
Medical romances teem with people who are constantly on the edge. Their lives revolve round ailing, dying patients, plethora of para-medicals and care givers. Constantly at the beck and call of their profession, the flower of love blooms at the most unlikely places. These books are engrossing reads. Silhouette Romances, Historical Romances, Intense, Desire – all these categories celebrate love and the power of mind and emotion through very lively and convincing characters.
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