Need a Break? Here's Why Romance Novels Can Be the Perfect Escape

Our lives are busy and filled with technology that allows us to connect more widely…but less deeply. Life demands we have jobs, responsibilities, and accountability. We do so much more work that we don't have as much time to connect with people. Daily news depresses or desensitizes us—when it's not worrying or angering us. We look around at our busy and serious lives and just want to breathe, relax, and escape into the promise of good feelings and happiness.

There are many options to find that promise, and one of those options is romance novels. They promise a happily-ever-after ending that reminds us of the beauty all around us, inside and out.

I think back on my life, and I can see where reading romance made a difference for me. Life isn't always easy or kind, but a good book can help us cope, keep us sane, and give us hope. I have my go-to books that I read again and again because I need to feel uplifted when things are heavy in my life.

Reading romance is the closest thing to magic outside of the love of family and friends. You turn the page and fall into a scene where the problems aren't your own. You know, through the promise of happily ever after, that things will always work out in a romance novel. And when they do, you remember there is always hope, even for you.

Romance can also transport you to places you may never see otherwise. I have traveled, spoken to experts, experimented, taken classes, had discussions, and read extensively to research my books. Most of what I learn never makes it into the story, but it allows me to be confident in what I'm writing. It also allows me to transport a reader to a whole new world. Perhaps you can't travel to the Carpathian Mountains, but you can see and experience them when you read my books.

I close my eyes and feel the sun on my face as the ocean breeze moves my hair and kisses my skin. I smell coconut and salt air. In reality, I am in my den, suffering through a cold and surrounded by tissues, tea, and Mucinex. Believe me, I am grateful for my alternate reality via romance novels!

I'm certain many of us can think back to a time when a book got us through a difficult period in our lives. We reached for that escape because it promised us everything would work out in the end—and we needed that.

Romance is the perfect escape, but it is so much more than that. It's an opportunity to remember how important it is to feel, and it's a vehicle that removes us from the pressures of life and sets us on a journey to hope and happiness.

Christine Feehan's Covert Game hits bookshelves on March 20th. Add it to your Want to Read shelf.

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