![]() ![]() Steamy TV soaps and bare-all movies don't seem to have dented the romance novel market Harlequin sold 160 million books worldwide last year to an estimated 50 million readers. McKay's stocks Harlequins, the books that are synonymous with a genre that still flourishes after 50 years. Men who promise devotion and a lifetime of epic sex, served up with a wedding ring and a white picket fence. ![]() But some get seduced into lingering over hunky paperback heroes. The women who stroll Aisle 8 at McKay's Used Books in Centreville often come looking for a quickie - an easy read to take home and polish off in a couple of hours. By Lonnae O'Neal Parker February 20, 1999
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