


In the decades since, mainstream superheroes stories opted only for titillation über alles-harmless thrills for readers still on the cusp of their sexual awakening.Īngel Payne, a USA Today best-selling author of some of the steamiest romance tales on the market today, sets out to define the limits of the passion of superheroes in the new Bolt Saga series of novels. While romance comics of the late Golden Age were hot sellers, they were the opposite of hot fiction, substituting chaste melodrama for passions, even from the greats of the field. And indeed, the melding of superhero tales with a full-on romance element has not been explored too much in the contemporary publishing market. The void for healthy sexual adventures involving superheroes is pronounced.
