The Story So Far

It’s 1977. A 22-year-old finds herself ensconced in a place of dust and history: the archives room of a second-rate college. She’s re-shelving Victorian etiquette books when the door opens and in walks a fabulous, seductive, larger-than-life writer of historical romances—and the young woman’s life will never be the same. Set against 25 years of cultural evolution, the love between the two women—the younger librarian and the grande dame of cheesy literature—outlasts a 28-year age difference,...