"Romance allows me to find the happy ending, to modify reality enough to give it hope."
--Nancy Richards-Akers, romance novelist, author of "So Wild A Kiss" and others, shot to death by her abusive husband, Richard, June 5th (joining Pamela Macaluso and Ann Wassall, romance writers killed by their husbands, 1996, 1997).
from current issue of Salon magazine (Julia Gracen).