What's changed? You don't see them in the same way anymore.

So, there are a few things that have changed there.

So when we think about the, uh, the bodice ripper, scare quotes around that phrase, we're talking about quite a specific period in the history of romance fiction.

Uh, we're talking about sort of what we would call the erotic historical novel of the 1970s through to about the 1990s.

These are the ones that we think of with Fabio on the cover.

But like any market, uh, the market shifted.

So those sort of big, bombastic, erotic historicals sort of turned the volume down a little bit, and from there we got sort of gentler historicals.

Uh, right, Jodi, what kind of themes are re- readers reaching for in 2026?