Romance

Seven books, and these readers keep asking the same question of all of them: who is actually doing the work, and who ends up holding authority over it. A chef rebuilds a bar whose passwords leave with her, a hero replaces the furniture while the heroine is in the next room, an earl works out he owes four hundred pounds in back pay and the book never does the sum. The ones that win this group over are the ones where consent, money and competence are treated as things to be settled rather than assumed.