Liu, Marjorie M. - The Last Twilight

[oyceter]

Doctor Rikki Kinn is treating what looks like an outbreak of Ebola in the Congo, but she soon gets tangled up in something much bigger. Enter Amiri the cheetah shapeshifter from Dirk & Steele, who is returning to Africa for the first time since being kidnapped by the Consortium

Comments

[magicnoire]

The heroine of the third book is Chinese. And IIRC, Liu's father is Chinese and her mother is white.

[sajia]

Aargh! In that case I'll stick to webcomics, thank you. I once had the idea for a medieval romance about a Bengali heroine who becomes the princess of a northern East Asian-analogue kingdom, and yes, her prince is East Asian, but if I have to face this sort of outright racism in the publishing industry I'll write it in webcomic form. If I read another post by Will Shetterly talking about how class is the issue, not race, I'll scream.

[oyceter]

*nods* Speaking of which, is there a big trend in black man/white woman romances? I have no idea -- most of what I've seen of the Exoticized Ethnicities are Sheikh, Spanish, Greek, and Italian. My general impression was that the "mainstream" romance world didn't have black heroes or heroines because black people weren't "safe" enough, but again, I may be missing an entire subgenre, given that I don't read that much romance.

I forgot to note that I also had problems with Amiri being a cheetah shapeshifter, given the "animalistic" stereotype.