I’m fascinated by what people hide beneath the surface and I think that’s why my favourite genres are character driven romance and erotic romance.
This idea that there’s someone for everyone, a person who can see the swan beneath the ugly duckling, the prince beneath the toad, the Cinderella beneath the ashes is timeless and fascinating.
Romantic novels appealed to me because I was always a shy introvert growing up and the notion that somewhere out there was a special person who would see past my prickly, unsocial exterior, past the hang ups and love me in spite of them, was magical.