<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Romance Novels: News &amp; Videos about Romance Novels - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Romance_Novels</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Romance Novels from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:04:16 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Romance Novels: News &amp; Videos about Romance Novels - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Romance_Novels</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Romance Novels from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>PHOTOS: The Hellish Compound Where Jaycee Dugard Was Held</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20301854,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20301854,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The garbage-strewn half-acre smells of mold and has cages for dogs - or humans - a source tells PEOPLE</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Decades of beefcakes, bodices and Harlequin romances</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/03/harlequin.romance.novels/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/03/harlequin.romance.novels/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>They've been teasing and tantalizing female readers with images of muscular men oozing sensuality and the pretty women they are destined to save and then fall in love with. 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City setting? Check. Bitchy boss? Check. Brand names? Check.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Bodice Ripper for the Silicon Valley Set</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367976/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367976/index.htm</guid><description>If Tom Perkins were a regular guy, he might have jumped at the chance to star in a reality TV show with dozens of hot twentysomethings vying for his "heart." But when the invite came, the legendary venture capitalist and co-founder of Kleiner Perkins threw it in the trash and called his romance novelist ex-wife, Danielle Steel, who persuaded him to turn the idea of appearing on a dating show into a book. Did he ever. Sex and the Single Zillionaire is everything you never expected from a distinguished 73-year-old. A saucy tale of Steven Hudson, a widowed investment banker searching for love, it showcases the highs and lows of life at the top. From Hudson's standing 5 P.M. martini, to his ne'er-do-well playboy son, to the eyebrow-raising sex scenes, it's all there. While Perkins doesn't expect rave reviews from the lit-crit crowd, his beach read will benefit a good cause (he's donating the proceeds to his biz-school alma mater, Harvard). As for the similarities between the author and his protagonist? 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