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Romance and the Resistance w/ Alyssa Cole and Alisha Rai

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January 7, 2018

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From historical to steamy to subversive, romance novels are doing everything “literary” fiction does

Introducing her Forbidden Hearts series, Alisha Rai’s Hate to Want You focuses on the forbidden love between Livvy Kane and Nicholas Chandler.

Set in the Civil War era, Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series takes its name from a secret society of freed blacks and slaves funneling information to the Union.

Rai and Cole will be in conversation with Sarah Wendell, who reviews romances on “Smart Bitches,Trashy Books” and is the author of Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels.

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Forbidden HeartsAlisha Rais HateWant YouLivvy KaneNicholas Chandler SetCivil WarAlyssa Coles Loyal LeagueUnion Rai

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