Renee Houtstra, a mindset coach based in Alberta, Canada, first discovered romance through hardship. In 2018, she suffered a stroke that significantly impaired her ability to read. As she recovered, she had to teach herself how to read again, and found that contemporary romance novels, with their formulaic plots and digestible prose, proved to be an accessible place to start. By the time pandemic lockdowns hit in 2020, Houtstra was fully engaged in one of the biggest publishing trendshellip;
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