"She's So Unusual" - Exploring Category Romance

Category romances, contrary to many peoples' beliefs, are not at all the same. Sometimes, they push boundaries.I have not yet read Mallory Rush's Kiss of the Beast, a Harlequin Temptation that features an alien hero (the only alien hero I've heard of in a category), but it looks very interesting, and was recommended to me twice.In Judith Arnold's Barefoot in the Grass (1996), the heroine is a