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" The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose. "
Deanna Raybourn
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" If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story. "
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