When the strait-laced romantic novel Arrows From The Dark by Sophie Cole appeared on Edwardian bookshelves in 1909, neither Gerald Rusgrove Mills nor his publishing partner Charles Boon guessed it would be the beginning of a never-ending love story.
More than a century on, the company they founded, Mills & Boon, sells 5.5 million books a year - that's one every four seconds. Read more