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May 3, 2013

 
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April # C1

The back cover of the book is yellow, with little pictures of cherries on it. The book probably would have been published from 2004 - 2008, and I believe it was a single book, not a series. The plot follows a woman who is considered to be overweight. I believe that her first name may start with an "M". She has low self esteem. Somehow she ends up living with this rich, attractive man. He buys her a lot of designer clothes and helps her learn to have pride in herself. I believe the woman does not have a good relationship with her father and at one point in the novel he comes and they argue.

SOLVED! Try JUDE'S LAW by Lori Foster.


April # C2

I read a book in the mid to late 90's about a girl who i think was of persian descent. I think she was royalty and had been kidnapped by a man whose benefactor had led him to believe the girl's father was responsible for his family's death. I always thought it was written by Barbara Taylor bradford but i cant seem to find it in any of her books.

in the story he later realizes they are in love and can't go through with what his benefactor wants. please help.


April # C3

It's about man getting revenge for his sister because he found out that her husband cheated on her with another woman. The man hires the girl (I think she was a model) for a shoot with the jewelry he designed (I'm not sure about this. I think he owned it or something.) Then he starts to fall for her even if he didn't really want to. He finds out near the end that the woman was drugged by his brother-in-law and that the other man took advantage of her. There was a scene where the hero slaps her because he think she was lying.

SOLVED! Try THE MORNING AFTER by Michelle Reid.


April # C4

I am on a hunt for a book by diana palmer, I can't remember the names but know that the oldest brother is in love with his sisters best friend but doesn't want to act on it instead he brings home a girl and hurts the friend when he starts to talk about her and her not being welcomed there. So she leaves and he is finally forced to face the truth . His family has a birthday party for him instead he locks himself in his study drunk and calls the girl asking why she didn't come to his party and that's all I remember.

SOLVED! We got several Diana Palmer title suggestions: MAN IN CONTROL, RAGE OF PASSION, and HEART OF ICE. Hope one of them is the one!


April # C5
I have been searching for a romantic novel which I read almost 5 years back. In the book both the man & woman are writers. He writes mystery/thriller novels and she writes romantic novels. They fell in love and got married but they separated because she thought he had cheated on her.
Now after 18 months he is back and wants her to help him gain custody of his niece who is in australia and orphaned after his sisters death. To do this the bring the child back and need to stay together as a couple in order for him to gain custody. While doing this the man gets her as well after convincing her of his fidelity and love. The man's surname was a French sounding one starting with Beau probably.
I guess the story was set in England.


April # C6

I am looking for a contemporary novel.. the heroines dad forces them to marry, and i don't remember much but i know that the hero leaves because the heroine didn't see him cry on their wedding night because she wears contact lenses. i don't remember much, but at the end she says' you never cry' to him, and he realises that she hadn't seen him crying on their wedding night.. he thinks before that that she is cold and unfeeling so he is rather nasty to her. And yes, she didn't see him cry because she wasn't wearing her contacts. They don't consummate the marriage on the wedding night, I think..i think its a hp novel


April # C7

I think it was from Mills and Boon/Harlequin. The story is about a woman who was married and became pregnant. Her husband kicks her out saying that she was unfaithful with, I think, a cousin or brother. She goes away and give birth to twin boys. The story jumps ahead a couple of years. The wife takes the boys to the beach where one of the twins cut their arm. She rushes the child to the doctor who realizes that the child looks like the husband. He says the child need blood and that hers is not good enough asking about the father. She fetches the other twin. The doctor shows the husband a photo and he comes looking for them.


April # C8

It's a Mills and Boon where the heroine goes for a short holiday, I think in Spain to visit her friend. The hero was or supposedly is the lover of the heroine's friend. When the hero meets the heroine, he starts hitting on her even though the heroine thinks he is in a relationship with her friend.The heroine refuses to get involved with the hero because her friend has told her that she is pregnant with the hero's baby and plans to make him marry her. But the hero is persistent and takes the heroine to meet his mother who does not like or approve of the heroine's friend love affair with her son.


April # C9

I read this book 7 or 8 years back. It is a Mills & Boons book. The story starts with the heroine heading to Scotland in her car. She is a journalist or some writer for a magazine. She lives with two other girls. They all work together and each of them have to get different stories for the magazine. So they all go to different places and the heroine has to come to Scotland. She sees the hero on her way walking with the cows or something and assumes him to be some farm boy. She asks him the way and he asks her to follow him. After she reaches her destination she finds that he is the owner or something. She had to come to Scotland to get to learn about some very precious jewel or stone that has been in the hero's family for generations. They both fall in love, though it is revealed only at the end. Although I think the hero asks her to be with him forever in Scotland but she refuses. Eventually she accepts his proposal.


April # C10

I am looking for the title of a book that I had as an excerpt from another book (a Joann Ross book possibly?). The heroine owned a shop that she inherited from her grandmother who was supposedly a fortune teller. It took place in Lousisiana in a bayou town. I can not remember much about the hero but I want to say that the was an old flame that came back into town. I believe there was a suspense element to it.


April # C11

The hero is half native American, with unusual green eyes. The heroine is a shy academic with tumbling locks, who is new to town. He meets her on the street as she’s walking with their mutual female friend, and he is struck almost dumb by her. I remember an early scene – he tracks her down to her friend’s house and when she opens the door her hair is held up in a loose knot by her pencil. When he pulls the pencil out, her hair comes tumbling down. Her makes a strong play for her, but she is almost frightened by the strength of his attraction. I think he begins to help her with her research.

He likens to her a princess – he’s never met anyone like her before and then he realizes that she is completely innocent. And it’s his turn to be frightened by the desire…. After an incident in which they both visit a bar, she is verbally harassed by a drunk native American who happens to be one of his relatives. The hero decides that he can never be good enough for her. He can’t escape the legacy of his dysfunctional family. Despite the fact that our heroine now wants to sleep with him, and is in love with him, he refuses to take her innocence. He only changes his mind when she goes out to dinner with another man.

Amidst all this might be a murder/ revenge plot because there is a fantastic scene in which they come under attack and the heroine is knocked unconscious. (Is he a cop?) The hero sweeps her up into his arms (swoon) and rushes with her to hospital with blood everywhere. He doesn’t even know that he’s been shot because he’s so concerned with the heroine….and then he feels guilty all over again. I think it was a shorter book, like a Silhouette.


April # C12

I'm looking for a book I read about 4-5 years ago. It's either a Harlequin or Silouette. It about a woman ( I think her name is Sarah) who moves from New York and moves to Wyoming or Montana- to marry a rancher that has to marry and produce an heir to inherit the ranch. His Grandmother was a famous artist and she had died and left a will stating that if he could not marry and produce a legitimit heir her ranch would become a commune for artists. He already has a teenage son from a high school relationship that he didn't know he had, I think the son's name is Shell Whitefeather. The woman (Sarah) doesn't tell the rancher that the reason she needed a change of pace from the city was because stress had caused her to have a TIA (small stroke). Oh, his son Shell has his girlfriend pregnant and he want to marry her but she wants to become a famous artist in New York and doesn't want to stay in the small town.


April # C13
I have two books that I cannot find. The first is a harlequin book were the hero and the heroine know each other because their fathers started a business together but the hero's dies early and he takes over the business and makes it huge for them. Then the heroine's father dies when she is in her late teems and she becomes an heiresses to havlf the company but she doesn't really use the money or flaunt it so no one knows that. She then goes to work in the company but at the bottom to learn the ropes. Then the hero gets kidnapped and she has to pay his ransoms and it gets out that she is an heiresses and he fears that she will get kidnapped to so he takes her to his I think Greek home to keep her safe and won't let her leave because of it. I read this 3 to 5 months ago.

SOLVED! Try THE RELUCTANT FIANCE by Jacqueline Baird.


April # C14
The second book is when this girl dies in the persent but is sent back in time to England to help this lord find some and help his niece I think. The lords brother died in a carriage wreck. She needs to help him with this to become a guardian angle. She is also sent back into the body of a women who was in a mental hospital but was put there because her uncle wanted her inheritance. As they get closer and more invoked she starts to forget who she was but the lord starts do believe her especially what she says about Wellington. I read this I think 4 to 6 years ago.


April # C15

I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago,I think it was a mills and boon romance or a harlequin presents vintage romance book, it starts off with man talking to a woman on the phone,he hears a crash and gets to the apartment to find a woman with red hair and green eyes with a cast on her leg,she also has a dog. It ends with him injuring his leg and she has to take care of him, I think she was a nurse too. On the cover they are at a party or in a ballroom,he is in a tux and she in a green or blue dress.


April # C16

I can't remember the book maybe from 90ies. The hero is missing and presumed dead - I don't remember, but I think in some South American country. Anyway, after 5 years or so his wife is about to marry his brother who helped her and her son during the rough times. Hate it!!! Then suddenly the hero is back home and the wedding is off. But things don't go smoothly, they feel like strangers, he can't sleep with her and the boy doesn't remember him. I remember the scene when the boy had an injury and they're in hospital and the boy is screaming to his father to go away and that he wants his uncle...the hero breaks up and cries.


Readers, if you have any answers for these questions, please email TRR, and be sure to include the month and the question number so we can list them accurately! As always, thanks for your help!

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