On Writing Romance by Leigh Michaels

Author:Leigh Michaels [Michaels, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

Short Contemporary

In The Desert Virgin, Sandra Marton shows her hero satisfying the heroine in alternative ways:

She tilted her chin up. Her lips parted. Her mouth clung to his and he felt his blood thunder in his ears.

"I'm going to bathe you now, Salome."

... Gently, he lifted her from his lap and stood her between his legs. Then he reached for one of the washcloths stacked on the tub's ledge. ...

"First your face," he whispered. "And your throat." She closed her eyes. ... Slowly, he ran the cloth over her breasts. He felt her tremble. He was trembling, too, as he took the cloth lower, over her belly, lower, lower ...

The cloth fell from his fingers. He bent his head, kissed her breasts as he slipped his hand between her thighs. She whimpered and his touch lingered, centered on that one forbidden place.

"That feels ..." Her head fell back "That feels ..."

"Does it?" His voice was raw. His body was on fire. "How does it feel, Salome?"

She sighed. He increased the friction. Warned himself that this was only for her. For her. Not for him. Not for—

Her cry rose into the night. Pleasure, fierce and elemental, rushed through him. He had done this. Given her this.

A feeling so deep, so intense it terrified him shot through his heart.

Quickly, he got to his feet. Lifted his golden dancer in his arms. Stepped from the tub with her clinging to his neck, with his mouth drinking from hers. Gently, he set her on her feet. Wrapped her in an enormous towel.

Then he kissed her again, lifted her again. Carried her from the bathroom to the bed, where he laid her down as carefully as if she were the most precious treasure in the universe.

"Don't leave me," she whispered.

Never, he thought fiercely. He would never leave her again.

Short contemporary is the most explicit of the category romances, allowing more freedom of language and alternative forms of sexual expression. Most

short contemporary romances include at least one episode of sexual intercourse and often involve oral sex as part of an extended love scene. This scene from Marton's book ends without the couple actually having intercourse, but they stop short not out of reluctance but because they don't have a condom.

Chick-Lit

The chick-lit heroine is one of the more liberated heroines in romance fiction, and she's just as sassy about sex as she is about everything else, as in this example from Claire Cross's Third Time Lucky.

He eased into me, hot and thick and hard, even as I tried to catch my breath. He held me against the wall with his hips as I got used to the size of him, then impatiently tugged my nightgown over my head and chucked it across the room.

He looked down at me and smiled, his admiration unmistakable. "Beautiful," he whispered. "And don't let anyone tell you differently." "Lots to love," I said, trying to make a joke.

Nick shook his head. "Perfect." He cupped one of my breasts in his hand, meeting my gaze, his palm fitted exactly around me.

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