by Rachel Seigel --- Like many girls, I've always been a sucker for romantic stories. As a pre-teen, I devoured the popular YA romance series of the time such as Sweet Valley High, Sweet Dreams, Junior High, and countless others. While no one would ever call them high-quality literature, they were romantic stories featuring teenage characters dealing with first dates, first love, conflict, and high school drama. These were great for a while, but I quickly outgrew them and turned to adult romance novels. In the world of adult romance, there were kings and queens, haunted Abbeys, time-traveling heroines, and even gods and goddesses, but there was also a problem- Many of them featured characters who were much older than I was, and dealt with situations that I simply couldn't relate to. Thanks to authors such as Ann Brasshares and Meg Cabot, (whose popular series