Prologue: Journey into Romancelandia

Find your one true love: book lovers and the romance story

Going native: when the academic is (also) the fan

Notes from the imagination: reading romance writing: wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in feisty dialogue, comment upon LaRoche's fiction

Sex: good girls do, or, romance fiction as sex-positive feminist mommy porn

Notes from the field: romance writers of America

Love: bondage and the conundrum of erotic love

Notes from the writing: "between the sheets" and other moments toward romance novelist

Happily ever after: the testament of erotic faith

Epilogue: lessons from romancing the academic.