In the eighties and nineties, the model Fabio Lanzoni popularized “the clinch”—the image on Harlequin paperback covers of a muscled man clutching an enraptured woman against his bare pecs.

Throughout the 1950s, Harlequin specialized not just in romance, but "medical" romance. How's that for a sub-genre? But that was because many of the books from Mills and Boon were written with ...

At age 62, she has sold her first romance novel, “The Marine’s Secret Daughter,” to Harlequin, the largest publisher of romance novels in the country. Harlequin editors liked the book so ...

All their category romance titles come with the Harlequin “promise.” This is essentially a trigger warning, but for pleasure, alerting readers to a book’s tropes and eventual outcome.

They're the original covers for a slew of Harlequin romance novels, and through ... romance subgenres ranging from O.G. brand Harlequin Presents ("exotic locations where passion knows no bounds ...