The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of every reader who picks up a romance novel in the ...

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Publishers, editors and even readers are gatekeeping 'happily ever after' endings, writes romance novel historian Steve Ammidown.