Let’s pitch a book idea: It’s just before noon on Saturday, Aug. 9, when you walk into The Plot Twist, a cute romance-themed bookstore in Denton. Today is particularly busy because it happens to be an annual nationwide celebration of a true American empire known as the romance book genre . The day is aptly dubbed Romance Bookstore Day , where local bookstores across the country host authors, offer discounts and bring together the finest connoisseurs of the art form.

You wander in and find an attractive, like-minded stranger who also happens to be single. You ask their name. It’s Adrian (conveniently androgynous), and then you ask what they do, which doesn't amount to anything besides being an amorphous idea used to move an article along. But something about their eyes when they say th

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