This curious, unsettling-yet unconvincing-mixture of interest and rejection, pleasure and pain, is also the immediate impression given by Joseph McAleer's Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon. And again the blood in her veins turned to flame and scorched her as he kissed her full and closely on the mouth. He might have said that he was going to kill her in the same tone. "I am going to kiss you," he said in a voice she hardly recognised. This moment, which Charles Boon called the "punishing kiss," is illustrated by the following passage from Golden Vanity (1912): This romantic narrative hinged upon the dramatic moment at which the heroine recognized-often unwillingly-an attraction to the hero. Each title had a common and instantly identifiable framework: heroine meets hero, they fall in love, and they marry. In 1998, the Mills and Boon imprint sold over 200 million paperback novels worldwide. Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon. Journal of the History of Sexuality 10.2 (2001) 340-343 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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