I mean, of course there is also Jodi Picoult, Laura Wattenburg, and J.K. Rowling (I appear to favor female writers--but in comics, all my favorites are men, so I guess it evens out). Those four women, I will read anything that has their names on it.
Jude Deveraux is who I tend to go to when my romantic soul needs satisfaction--today, I re-read "Twin of Fire", one of two companion books (the other being "Twin of Ice").
Basically, it's about a woman in the late 1800's that becomes a doctor and is facing all the prejudice and ridicule therein. She goes home for her twin sister's wedding, and finds that she super hates Houston's (her sister) fiance Dr. Leander Westfield. She tries to prove to her sister what a wretched man he is, which leads her to pretend that she is Houston and go out alone with Lee, where they end up having sex.
It actually turns out all right in the end--Houston is in love with another man, and they get married in a big double wedding, and Blair and Leander open a women's clinic together and work side by side...
My romantic side was more than placated by this story, even if my inner self rebels at the thought of a woman knowingly falling in love and sleeping with her sister's intended. I mean, Houston had planned on marrying Lee since she was 6 years old--to her, this was as important as becoming a doctor had been to Blair, even if Houston was not in love with the man. It was a goal she had set for herself and she wanted to see it through to the end.
But, that didn't keep me from enjoying the story--Deveraux utilizes several literary elements that make me twinge occassionally, but they are for the good of the story, and it really does work out for the best--it makes the characters more lovable, more engrossing.
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