Every romance reader knows the feeling. The feeling you get when a book has totally drawn you in, when it reaches out and wraps itself around you.

These are the books you stay up far too late reading.

They have the characters you think about days after finishing that final chapter.

They have the fictional places you want to visit...or, maybe, even move to.

They are the stories you desperately want to know how it ends, but feel lost when you turn the last page.

I'm sure you know exactly the kind of books I am talking about.

But, and it's a very big but,

have you ever wondered why these love stories stay with us?

Well, I did.

I went on a mission to find the answer, one romance novel at a time.

That's why I created The Reading Room.

In here, we'll look beyond the tropes, and the surface story and discover how unforgettable romances are created through The Who, The Where and The How.

Through the characters we fall in love with, the worlds we want to return to and the relationship journeys we can't stop thinking about.

These are the three elements I believe turn good romances into the ones that readers never forget.