If you’ve been reading my blog you’ll know I’m a huge Eloisa James fan girl. In fact, she’s the reason I began writing romance! I read her Potent Pleasures and I was hooked for life. After reading Eloisa, I printed out a list of the top 100 romances and went on a buying binge at Powell’s Books purchasing classics from Loretta Chase, Laura Kinsale, Judith Ivory, Julia Quinn, Mary Balogh, Beverly Jenkins, Judith McNaught, Lorraine Heath, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Teresa Medeiros,  etc. (of course this was pre-Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Courtney Milan, Sherry Thomas, and Meredith Duran