September#15
I have been scouring the Internet trying to find a book I read years ago. About thirteen years ago, and it was pretty old at the time. It had a librarian type woman in it. Somehow she gets involved with maybe a pirate. Somehow they end up in the jungle or rain forest. There is a major love scene where they make love for the first time in a cave, while the natives are playing drums and searching for them or holding them captive. I thought the name had Eden in it but I'm really not sure. the cover was mostly green with a jungle-type scenery on it.

January#3
The book deals with a girl who falls in love with the bad boy in town who is a twin. She falls in love but due to some circumstances he leaves and she ends up married to his twin who is the opposite of him. Well the years pass, and I think her husband suffers from an accident and when he leaves the hospital a diffrent man. At the end it is found out that the brothers switch places and the one who is with her now is the the one brother who is her real love. Sorry about the vague details, but I read the book a long time ago. If it helps any I think the book cover had a picture of a sunrise. Thanks for your help.

March#1
The title character is a counselor for pregnant teens, recently divorced. She buys a gnome she sees in a resale shop on her way home from work. The owner of the gnome is a widower who recently started a construction company with his brother. His daughter was upset when it is sold. She comes and visits the gnome at the counselor's house. Long story short the counselor and widower fall in love. She ends up getting pregnant by him. Her first husband divorced her because he always blamed her for not being able to have children when really he was the one that was to blame.

March#3
The book I'm looking for was a Mills& Boon one. Probably late 80s, early 90s - when M&B still had the covers with the wave on it. The one they have brought back to celebrate their birthday. Its about a couple who got married because their grandfathers wanted them to. They have been friends since childhood and, unusually, are not in love - just good friends. The husband falls in love and the wife falls in love the the husband's girlfriend's father. The wife and the father are the story. She has to distract him while the husband and the girlfriend try to sort themselves out. I remember that the wife had burnt her hand (during childhood) and she always wore a glove.

March#4
i read this book a couple of years back. i don't know the name of the author or what the book looked like, but i can remember the story pretty well. it's a historical romance and starts with a young girl (about twelve) sitting in some sort of meadow with an old family friend (much older) and she is in love with him. she gets mad at him because he has come to tell her that he is getting married, even though he promised her when she was a child that he'd marry her. i remember that the girl and her mother and little sister all had some magical touch with the elements. for example, when the man and his intended were leaving, the little girl did something to throw his fiancee off balance. later on, the girl has grown up and the man's wife has died. he is facing some kind of jail sentence (possibly for murder of his wife) and the only way to save him is for the girl (now a woman) to marry him and care for his little daughter. she reluctantly marries him and after that i don't remember much besides her sneaking out of her room window, via a ladder, to celebrate some "pagan" festivities with her mother and sister. at the end of the ladder she turns around and runs into him and he says that her father warned him of her possible liking for "pagan rituals."

March#6
Years ago whne I was in the 7th or 8th grade (I am now 29) I read my first ever romance novel. I borrowed it from a friend and it started me on a life long love of historial romances. I can not remember the exact title of the book but I think it was something "Viking". The basic plot of the stroy is a young woman from Egpyt, I think she was a priestess or some noble, was captured by a Viking warrior. They end up going back to Egpyt at some point and I can remember little more. I know its not much to go on, but maybe someone else remembers this book from all those years ago. I would love to read it again. Thank you!!

March#7
I'm looking for a book I read about 7 or 8 years ago. I've got very little to go on as well, this historical book. At the beginning of the book, the main girl is extremely sick and thought to be dying and so the father begs a man coming through--some sort of lord?--to marry his daughter before she dies so that his land doesn't go to some worthless nephew or cousin of some sort. So thinking the girl is going to die, they are married and he leaves. She somehow lives and travels to his place because they were married where he's stunned and annoyed to find all this out. I'm pretty certain he's having an affair with a maid at one point in time in the book, which bothers the girl because the maid gets cocky. I think the first time they have sex is in the fields or on a beach. I also believe she runs away at one point in time. I know the author wrote another book in which these characters show up again, as neighbours to the main characters of that book. I've been searching for awhile and haven't gotten anywhere.

March#8
This site has helped me before and I hope your readers can pull another rabbit out of the romance hat. I am looking for an anthology from the last 5 or 6 years. It seems to me it was holiday themed, Christmas or Valentine's Day. The story that really stands out in my memory is one in which a woman has set the stage for a romantic dinner and it appears she has been stood up when a repairman arrives to look at her furnace. One thing leads to another and he ends up seducing her (or vice versa). The name Lucy rings a bell but that might be the author and also Joe or Nick. Please help and thanks for past assistance.

March#11
I am trying to find a book that I read at least 8 years ago. It is a historical about a girl who is determined to marry a Duke. I think she was on the way to an estate when her carriage broke down and a handsome rider, who is really a Duke, helps her. The girl assumes the hero is a stable-hand but falls in love with him anyway. She is distressed because she wants a Duke. He's a pretty charming character too.

March#15
The story was about this pair of sisters who both liked the boy next door. One was the boys girlfriend she wanted to go off to be a model the guy was upset somehow slept with the sister who always loved him and she got pregnant. The story really starts with the girls mother is dying and the model sister comes home to see the mother and brings a photographer friend. The sister who has the boy next door husband is having marital problems and is insecure with her sister coming home. This four make up the 2 couples. They are trying to finish a pearl necklace before the mother passes away (this author usually has a ghost or spiritual presence in her books- also wrote a book where a man thinks his wife ran away but her spirit lead him to see there was a big flood and her necklace was in a high tree in their front lawn because she drown) This was one of the first stories that two sisters were fighting over the same man but there was no "bitch" just different sides to the story. It was a very moving story that was well written. I would love to read it again. I am not sure if I gave enough information but I thank you for trying.

March#18
I can't remember precisely the opening - our heroine is a young sassy woman whose dream is to sing opera? She and a man "meet" when one finds a message in a bottle written by the other - and responds. In their correspondence, She becomes 'Columbine' and he 'Harlequin.' I think this relationship was established by the time the story opens - i.e. when She was a teen? Columbine has come to the big city (Paris? London?) with her one prized possession - a Balenciaga dress and - ends up working as a maid in a hotel while waiting for her big musical break, I think. And who should end up in one of the rooms she's working in but Harlequin? He is wealthy (not sure that he always was) of course and at this stage neither knows who the other is. Because of a minor misdemeanour while maiding in his hotel room, she is blackmailed by him into posing as his (platonic) companion. He provides 'Columbine' with a wardrobe and gives her instructions as to which outfit to wear - depending on the event he requires her to attend. She flaunts his instructions by wearing numbers appended to each outfit she is instructed to wear. I cannot recall how they finally recognise one another - I do remember that one of the complicatons is his fiancee Blanche.

March#19
I’m looking for the title of a Harlequin Presents that I read in the 1990s (maybe late 1980s). The story starts off with the heroine already in a relationship with the hero, and she is about to break it off. The hero is a workaholic and doesn’t give her much attention. When she tries to break it off, he decides to make the commitment and so they marry (for love on her part, for intimacy and children on his part). I seem to recall that they both work in the real estate/development industry. She has inside information that will help his company on a super-big project. She discovers that she’s pregnant while he is away on a project. When he announces that he’s coming home, she’s very excited and plans a dinner to make her announcement, but he blows it by pressuring her to give him the inside information on her boss before she even has a chance to tell him about her news. Later, there are complications with the delivery and he rushes home from yet another project to be with her. I think she has to have an emergency c-section and then something else happens after that.

March#21
It's a romance novel (possible Harlequin) about a little girl that went to live with distant relatives after her parents died. The family consisted of mother, son and stepfather. The little girl was drawn to the son and they got along very well. The stepfather was very abusive to the mother but she protected her son. The stepfather started to look at the little girl in a sexual manner and inorder to protect her the boy decided to run away with her. They run away during a snow storm and was picked up by a truck driver who gave them an address in Califonia just in case they needed help. When they reached Califonia it wasn't long before they were living on the streets. The boy remembered the address and went there, it was a store run by an excop (john) and he caught the boy stealing food. This was around Christmas time. He took the two home and the told him all that had happened. He adopted the two. Years later the excop was shot by a someone he had put away. The girl came back home for the funeral (she had been living in England). They comforted each other through the tradegy while trying to find out who wanted to kill John. They started sleeping together and now have to figure out how they really feel about each other.

March#24
The second was about a nurse who is hired by a wealthy family to help their comatose son/brother because she has had success with other coma patients. She has some form of telepathy which allows her to talk to the patient.

March#25
I am looking for a romance novel I read either in the late 80's or early 90's. It is about a female rancher whose friend dies. She takes over the care of her friend's children because the husband is a gambling drunk. Before the friend dies she writes to her brother. He comes into town and tries to get the husband back on track and in the process falls in love with the rancher. In one scene of the book when the male lead and female rancher are getting to know each other (and not getting along) she cooks him a breakfast and makes it horrible! Throughout the book the female rancher is also trying to stop another rancher from taking over her ranch (this man has been stealing her cattle and rebranding them.) At one point one of the big bad ranchers croonies is caught trying to steal the cattle and the male lead has him tarred and feathered. In another scene the male lead gets into a duel and has a flashback to a duel he was in earlier in life which killed his girlfriend or first wife. The story ends with the couple in their later years celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with the man driving a car which he drives into an old barn.

March#29
I am so pleased to have found your site. I have been trying to remember the name of a book for ages without success. I believe that the story takes place in the Victorian era, and centers on a young woman who is a spinster due to a combination of bookish traits and the "misfortune" of being very tall and having proportions she finds unattractive (small breasts and large hips, by her own description). She makes a living by teaching deportment to young ladies, until she encounters the hero one day in a dress shop. There, a mouse frightens her, and she is on a stool, holding her skirts rather high, when the hero -ostensibly a rat-catcher -comes to the rescue. He is immediately struck by the length of her legs, and we are treated to a first person reflection of their erotic possibilities from his perspective. Somehow, two other gentlemen become involved in the narrative, making a bet that the woman can't teach this rat-catcher to pass as a gentleman at an upcoming ball, no small feat, considering that he has a cockney accent and a habity of cursing like a sailor. She takes the bet, however, despite some misgivings, and their relationship begins (very properly on her side, and with a good deal of scandalous sexual innuendo on his). They discover that the ratcatcher has an aptitude for accents, and they successfully pass him off at the ball. Even better, we discover that he is the long-lost grandson of some wealthy old coot who can't wait to leave everything to him and clear the way for a perfect HEA ending.

March#32
I am trying to find a romance novel that I read when I was young. Probably around early to mid '90's. I can't for the life of me remember what the Title was or who wrote it. All I remember is it was a historical romance about a girl named Jasmine who was in love with a man named Barrett (I think). Her Mother would not allow the match and took her away to marry a wealthy heartless man who ended up sleeping with both Jasmine and her mother trying to have an heir. She had an affair with a servant who got her pregnant but a fall down the stairs caused her to lose the baby. She ran away with her servant who stole all her money and belonging...eventually ended up at the Kings mistress...and finally made her way back to her original love. At east thats what I remember of the story. I've googled everything I can think of but can't find the book..I don't even know if it was considered a good one or not...I just know I enjoyed it when I read it. If you have any guesses as to what book I'm talking about, I would appreciate a response. Thanks.

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