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flag Amanda Holmes opened Ottawa’s first romance-only bookstore in December 2025, challenging stigma and celebrating the genre.

flag Amanda Holmes opened Evermore Books in Ottawa’s Glebe neighborhood in December 2025, the city’s first bookstore dedicated solely to romance novels. flag Inspired during a 2025 stress leave and fueled by her love for the genre, she launched the shop to celebrate romance as a legitimate literary form and challenge stigma around women writers and explicit content. flag The store offers a wide range of titles, from clean to spicy, and has become part of a growing cultural movement, highlighted by locally popular works like the “Heated Rivalry” series. flag Evermore is Canada’s 27th romance-only bookstore and one of eight independent bookstores in Ottawa, following Westboro Books’ closure in March 2026.

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