“找到你的真爱，你就能够过着从此以后幸福快乐的生活。”爱情以及欲望是无数故事的主题，从《雅歌》到迪士尼公主系列，但尤其是罗曼史小说。罗曼史小说这个书类里面充满了幻想、性爱、享受。 它们的故事通常都以女性为主，解放了女性读者的性欲，但是同时却强调了女人需要男人才能够有幸福快乐的结果。罗曼史是一个数百万的出版产业，许多书更成为电影，或者国际畅销作品（比如Fifty Shades of Gray）。作者在书中探讨了罗曼史这个书类，研究为什么这些书这么吊读者的胃口，以及我们可以从这些书中学到什么关于幸福、爱情、性爱以及欲望的东西？
 
关于作者：
Catherine M. Roach是New Colleage of University of Alabama的性别与文化学教授。她写过另外一本书Stripping, Sex and Popular Culture。她是一位罗曼史作家，笔名是Catherine LaRoche。
 
好评：
"An innovative hybrid of both academic analysis and romantic fiction, offering scholarly and popular readers a fascinating account of what is at stake in stories we love about love." —Brenda Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity

"Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike." —Publishers Weekly

"...impressively smart...a lively and memorable read!" —Eric Murphy Selinger, Executive Editor of theJournal of Popular Romance Studies
 
目录：
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. Cummings
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Journey into Romancelandia
1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story
2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan
3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche’s Fiction 
4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn
5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America
6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love
7. Notes from the Writing: “Between the Sheets” and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist
8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic Faith
Epilogue: Lessons from Romancing the Academic
Notes
Bibliography
Index