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Sweet Savage Love

Rosemary Rogers · 1974

The second great founding text of modern romance (alongside Woodiwiss). Ginny Brandon and Steve Morgan's tumultuous relationship across the American West and Mexico. Rogers invented the long-form epic romance and the hero who is both dangerous and eventually redeemable; the template for a thousand subsequent novels.

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