Long before the success of Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James, women were writing erotic romance stories that are brazen, seductive, and sexually liberating. Among these women is a group of prize-winning Canadian authors, including Kayla Perrin and Sharon Page, whose novels have reached the USA Today Bestseller List and the pages of Publishers Weekly. These stories will leave you yearning for more ... and more ... and dispel once and for all the myth that Canadians are as frigid as the northern climate. So sit back and warm yourself with these hot stories. Genre Fiction Canadian authors have become internationally celebrated masters of genre fiction. Robert Sawyer explores the bounds of speculative and science fiction, Peter Robinson heads up murder and mystery fiction investigations, and Charles de Lint conjures up fantastic worlds. In Northern Heat, Canadian authors put a pen to the erotic romance genre and show that Canadians are, contrary to popular belief, incredibly sexy.