Okay, so I just want to give you all little heads up.

Things are about to get a little spicy.

I am going to share something with you that I read recently.

His fingers moved from her back to her neck, then to her hair.

His lips touched her cheeks, her eyelids, and the tip of her nose, which surprised a

giggle out of her.

Not content to be passive, her hands ran down his chest, dancing over his nipples, pressing

into his muscles, squeezing his hips.

When her fingers lingered there, he said, aren't you going to keep going?

Today we're going to talk about the books seemingly everyone is reading, but no one is talking

about romance novels.

From Gimlet Media, this is The Nod, a podcast about black culture from Blackness's biggest

fans.

I'm Britney Euse.

The excerpt you heard at the top of the show is from The Wedding Date, a book by New York

Times bestselling author Jasmine Gullary.

Jasmine's books are all about putting black women at the center of their own love stories.

We're going to talk with Jasmine later today, but first I have a confession to make.

I am a romance novel novice, which is strange because the job that I held most consistently

while in college was at a book's a million in Washington DC.

During my shifts I read whatever I could get my hands on, foreign in policy magazines

or ecology guides or sex astrology books, literally everything.

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