A First Name Basis

Last night I was enjoying a treat: getting an advance read on something new and steamy from my friend Addison Cain. Aside from it being hot perfection, as her stories always are, a passage she wrote reminded me how much I enjoy the moment in a historical romance where the couple begins to address each other by first names.

Unlike today, especially in American culture where that kind of familiarity tends to happen quickly, if not immediately, the use of first names in anything other than the m...