5/22/2023 0 Comments The Windflower by Laura London![]() ![]() The author, Laura London is the husband and wife writing team Tom and Sharon Curtis. ![]() The Windflower, originally published in 1984, was one of my favorite romances. ![]() The cover pictured is the original cover art. Date rape and marital rape were still new-ish concepts in general, and stalking and jealous tantrums were still mostly acceptable ways to demonstrate romantic commitment in real life. The bodice rippers of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rodgers were becoming dated, but the genre (or publishers of the genre) still weren’t comfortable with a woman having independent sexual desires. The late 1980’s was a tough time for the Romance genre. We read romances instead of watching soap operas. I started reading romance novels back in the late 1980’s when I fell in with the wrong crowd in college. ![]()
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