Her good heart hates the slave trade — she shivers at the thought of the soul drivers on board — but she needs slaves to work her father’s plantation, a responsibility that has fallen to her during her father’s prolonged illness. What Cassie doesn’t realize — but will come to find out over the long, hot summer — is that this “slave” is really a wealthy English gentleman, falsely accused and shipped off to the colonies. Storylines like this one — from Pamela Clare’s “Sweet Release,” printed under the Leisure Historical Romance imprint of Dorchester Publishing — are surging in popularity as political and economic pundits prophesy doom. Perhaps the reason we’re fixated on romance novels is because our personal lives — like the economy — have tanked. read more
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