Adam and Eva
Sandra Kitt's\xa0Adam and Eva\xa0was the first Harlequin romance written by an African American author about a African American couple, in 1984.\xa0 It's not the first black category romance - as far as we know that's Rosalind Welles'\xa0Entwined Destinies, which was published by Dell Candlelight in 1980.\xa0 There's also a\xa0rumor\xa0that Anne Weale's\xa0Blue Days at Sea\xa0is a "stealth black romance" - evidently the protagonists' race just isn't mentioned but the people on the cover are even whiter than usual.\xa0 (And they are usually\xa0really white.)