Gibson joined Lily and Hannah Barrett, the co-owners of the romance pop-up bookstore Read My Lips Boston for our Book Club event on July 30 at 6 p.m. Read on to learn more about the book, author S.T.

The billion-dollar romance publishing industry hasn’t always been inclined to feature main characters who use wheelchairs or are autistic reveling in the pleasure of a lover’s touch. Writers, however, ...