Tanzanite hasn't always had a history that read like a romance novel.

In a manner that perhaps only a romance novel could make seductive, he forces himself upon her as they flee across the desert.

She wrote her first book, a romance novel that she buried beside a creek near her home, when she was in grade seven.

She then wrote her first romance novel, which was rejected by publishers.

The romance novel presents an insight into the breakdown of marriage and its consequences.