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All the other romances chosen for this analysis have been published in the twenty-first century, a fact whose causes need to be looked into. In a review of Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today (Gandolfo 2007), Barbara B. Moran states that the popularity of faith-based fiction, which mirrors general popular fiction in terms of genre choices and therefore includes mysteries, suspense, horror, and, needless to say, romances, “has increased greatly in the last decade” (2008: 222). Moran affirms that religious fiction was once sold almost exclusively in Christian bookstores, but in the first decade of the twenty-first century, “a wide-range of such fiction is stocked by all mainstream book sellers, and it constitutes the largest type of fiction available in the book departments of discount stores such as Wal-Mart”; moreover, Moran continues, its popularity is “also evident in public libraries where inspirational fiction is now one of the most frequently checked out types of material” (2008: 222-223).