I am an avid reader of romance and Iris Johansen was an author I always picked up. I even tracked down all her Loveswept novels and read them multiple times, despite (because of?) the dated romance novel tropes that are present.

But years ago, she turned to writing thrillers and I tearfully clung to her older books and her darkly brooding alpha males.

I lost all hope and stopped even looking at her books in the bookstores.