The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of every reader who picks up a romance novel in the ...
Revenge, loss of innocence, poor timing, homophobia, forbidden love, messiness and heartbreak. What’s not to love about love?
Publishers, editors and even readers are gatekeeping 'happily ever after' endings, writes romance novel historian Steve Ammidown.