Rugby and romance are perhaps not the most obvious of combinations, but one that the world's biggest romance publisher, Mills & Boon, and the Rugby Football Union believe will bear fruit.

The pair have teamed up to publish a series of books featuring tall, dark and handsome rugby heroes - minus cauliflower ears - and their glamorous love interests.

It sounds tremendously exciting - but we'd like to know if you can better their efforts. To give you an idea of the right sort of tone, here's an extract from the work of Sarah Morgan, from her soon-to-be-published novel for the new partnership, The Prince's Waitress Wife:

(To set the scene, readers should perhaps know that Holly, the virgin waitress, has just met Prince Caspar, who will shortly impregnate her.)

Holly's stomach curled with wicked excitement and desperate nerves. 'Thank you for rescuing me from an embarrassing moment,' she mumbled breathlessly, desperately racking her brains for something witty to say and failing. She had no idea how to entertain a prince. 'I can't imagine what you must think of me.'

'I don't understand your obsession with everyone else's opinion,' he drawled. 'And at the moment I'm not capable of thinking. I'm a normal healthy guy, and every one of my brain cells is currently focused on your gorgeous body.'

Or here's another snippet, just to make sure you're on the right lines:

'That tackle was by the Italian hooker, is that right?' Suddenly aware that the sun was shining down on them, and she was far too hot, she released a few buttons on her jacket. 'I can't believe they named a rugby position after a prostitute.'

'They are called hookers because they use their feet to hook the ball in the scrum. They're a key...' His voice tailed off in the middle of the sentence, and all his attention was suddenly focused on the delicate lace of her camisole. 'Sorry, what was the question?'

Now it's your turn ...