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2014–2017Maya Banks5 titles in the corpus
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Maya Banks

Steamy
Third person, multiple
5 titles
1 series

Maya Banks runs 5 titles through the immersion engine, spanning 2014–2017 at an average heat of 3.2/5. The catalog leans hardest on protector, narrated mostly in third person, multiple. A formula score of 92/100 measures how consistently those levers are pulled book to book.

protector
slow-burn
suspense
found-family
forced-proximity
virgin-heroine
The signature

Averaged engineered signals

Every measure here is the mean across this author's catalog — the characteristic way their books work the immersion engine, on the same axes the catalog scores every title.

Avg heat rating
3.2/5487,033 words across 5 books — 1,708 pages
Anticipation Ratio
74Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
Explicit Density
1.0avg explicit scenes / 100 pages
POV Immersion
47How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
Parasocial Index
65The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
Serialization
59Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
Escalation Slope
54How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.
Across 5 titles, this author scores 92/100 on formula consistency — how little their engineered signals vary from book to book. A high score reads as a repeatable production formula rather than a wide creative range.

Content signature

The content this author's catalog leans into — first-pass lexical matches across 5 books.

Mentions of Backside473Kissing290Penetrative Sex108Mentions of Male Genitalia96Mentions of Breasts74Climax / Orgasm60
Engine signature
The author's averaged fingerprint across the five 0–100 signals — their characteristic balance of buildup, immersion, and attachment.
Signal breakdown
Each averaged signal scored out of 100, with what it measures.
Anticipation Ratio74/100

Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.

POV Immersion47/100

How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.

Parasocial Index65/100

The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.

Serialization59/100

Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.

Escalation Slope54/100

How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.

How this author compares
The author's averaged signals set against the catalog average — a measure of how far above the field their formula runs.
The catalog

Every title by Maya Banks

All titles credited to this author in the corpus, newest first — including any co-written with another author. Open any title for its full content dashboard.

TitleHeatAnticip.ParasocialSerialScenes
Cover of Just One Touch by Maya BanksJust One TouchMaya Banks · Slow Burn4
68
68
55
5
Cover of With Every Breath by Maya BanksWith Every BreathMaya Banks · Slow Burn3
72
70
62
4
Cover of In His Keeping by Maya BanksIn His KeepingMaya Banks · Slow Burn3
68
62
58
3
Cover of Safe at Last by Maya BanksSafe at LastMaya Banks · Slow Burn3
88
62
58
1
Cover of Keep Me Safe by Maya BanksKeep Me SafeMaya Banks · Slow Burn3
72
64
62
3

An analytical project. Truth in Romance examines and quantifies how explicit-romance fiction is constructed — including the explicit passages themselves. It contains adult content and is intended for readers 18 and over. The books in the catalog are real published works; their titles and contents are discussed here for research, commentary, and criticism. The per-book signal scores, arc shapes, and tag weights are the project’s own analytical estimates from automated text sampling — directional, not exact measurements, and not the publishers’ figures. Industry figures are attributed to published industry research (Circana and similar).

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