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January # C4

Book about a woman who suffered a devastating car accident and broke her entire jaw and smashed her face beyond recognition and the guy she was with ditched her (his name was maybe Ron). The book quoted a song by Bread about Flying Away.

SOLVED!

This sounds like WIFE IN DISGUISE by Susan Mallery.

January # C5

It's a contemporary romance. The story line is a ranch owner pretends to be a ranch hand in front of his new employee, who is working on his summer meadow cutting grasses on a remote part of the ranch for the summer. The two fall in love, but he can't bring her to his ranches summer party because she will find out his true identity. She finds out his true identity when she goes to there to give him a shirt she spent her free time making for him, even making the buttons by hand, thinking he didn't ask her because he didn't have nice clothes. She doesn't give him the shirt but goes to the party, and leaves the following morning. When he goes to the cabin where she works, she is gone, but he finds the shirt she hand made for him over the summer. He catches up with her and they live happily ever after.

SOLVED!

This is FEVER by Elizabeth Lowell, and there is a sequel called DARK FIRE about the hero's sister.

January # C6

The plot consisted of a man, who I think, kidnapped a woman during a bad winter and took her to a cabin or house and they eventually fell in love. He ended up letting her go (or something happened) back to her home town. He found her and surprised her during one of her classes and I believe he proposed. I remember some characterization of the woman. She had blonde hair and was a virgin until she met him and came from a good moral system. One of the specific scenes I remember is at the beginning of the novel or how they first 'met'. I remember they were in a ditch on the side of a road in the middle of snow on top of each other, maybe there was a black car? Another scene is when the man pushes the woman against a wall and she has a sweatshirt on and he feels up her shirt. Also one scene was where she saved him from the winter cold outside and had to undress him while he was unconscious to keep him warm. One day they had a nice dinner and they started dancing, I believe he jokingly acted like an infatuated student, that ended up in them having sex. I also remember a scene from when they just were reunited at her house in her home town they started kissing and thought they should unplug the phones. They decided not to have sex until the marriage, which the man had trouble dealing with, he was at a bar and someone suggested he take cold showers.

SOLVED!

This sounds lke PERFECT by Judith McNaught.

January # C7

I'm looking for a sihouette romance from about the 1980's, it was based on a brother an sister who grew up with a fanatical father who taught them sex was wrong.They left after they grew up , but still was afraid because of the beatings they used to get from him, I believe she became a reporter or a social worker.One day she came across the rich guy from their town, they evetually had sex but when she realised what she did i think she got rid of the bed. Eventually he won her trust after he found out from her brother about their father.

SOLVED!

Try BETRAYED BY LOVE by Diana Palmer.

January # C9

I'm looking for a book I read in the early 90s but I think it was written in the 70s or 80s. It's about a woman with a wealthy father who goes to a country ravaged by war and meets a man whose name I think is Sam. I think he gets shot and they spend the night together in his tent. They fall in love and when they get home they become engaged. Something happens and they break up. She discovers that she's pregnant and decides not to tell him but he finds out when her father tells him. They get back together just before the baby is born.

SOLVED!

Try TO LOVE A MAN by Karen Robards.

January # C11

I am looking for a contemporary romance novel, like Harlequin or mills & Boon, and the story starts with a minor car accident, the heroine's car and a sports car . That situation eventually leads the heroine to becoming the mistress of the wealthy man who was driving the car she bumped into. The heroine is dyslexic, and she lives with her grandfather who is cost-concious about everything. They live in an old mansion, her grandfather doesn't like to turn most of the lights on even in the evening and forbids her from using the telephone except for emergencies, so when she needed to call the man, she uses the public phone booth instead. She is very intelligent and she is a reclusive painter, she does not want her works to be shown. Near the end of the story, the man falls in love with her, finds out that she is a brilliant painter as well as fluent in several languages. The ending was they were in an art gallery for the debut of her creations, and they are already married .

SOLVED!

Try PRISONER OF PASSION by Lynne Graham.

January # C12

I am looking for a book about a wealthy family,the main woman character is kind of like Martha Stewart and loves to craft things, I believe she opens her own store, her sister is a photographer. The main guy character I believe is named Nick, he works in the stables when he is young. iIbelieve she goes to find him and they get married but her father has it annuled and she is pregnant. I might be getting two books mixed up.

SOLVED!

This is two books: REMEMBER WHEN by Judith McNaught (Martha Stewart & stable boy) and PARADISE, also by Judith McNaught (pregnancy & annulment).

January # C13

In this story, a girl who is quite shy goes out for a night on the town (possibly for her birthday) and dresses very unlike herself. She wears a wig which I am sure is black. She adopts a new name for the night and meets a guy. I am sure they spend the night together and she falls in love with him. Fast forward a few years and she begins working as a governess or a nanny for a child, I think it is a girl. I am a little hazy on the details, not sure if the child is the daughter or niece of this guy, but basically she encounters the man with whom she spent that night with and is desperately in love with him. He doesn’t realise it is her. I think he starts to have feelings for her but he doesn’t do anything about it. Then one day, she is playing around with the child and somehow she ends up with a black wig or a black towel on her head and he recognises her as the girl from that night, who he cannot forget.

SOLVED!

This might be AN OFFER FROM A GENTLEMAN by Julia Quinn, although that's a historical romance. Maybe we listed this in the wrong column?

January # C14

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.

January # C15

The book is about a city girl whose family has just moved into a small town. Her father is abusive and is a lawyer and she lives with him and her mother. The hero owns a successful ranch and he lives with his young nephew (I think he has adopted him from his sister). The hero's brother is a religious leader (they are catholic). The hero and heroine first meet in church - there is a bit of eye contact but they don't get to talk. The heroine's father forces her to work for the hero (where she has to lie about her age to get the job) so as to get as much information for her father as is possible as her father wants the hero for a client. The hero and heroine fall in love in the end (she is a virgin). He is distraught to find out that she has been abused by her father and grows protective of her and marries her in the end. A scene comes into mind where the hero is driving home in the middle of the night and comes across the heroine running with her clothes torn looking terrible. Turns out she is running from a suitor who had made unwanted advances at her after a date. Needless to say, her father had organised the date. The hero has a friend he usually goes fishing with and there is a scene where he goes fishing with his friend and finds the heroine and her friend's wife fishing on the same spot. The hero is highly intelligent and is educated in some ivy league university, he is a big bulky muscular individual and is possibly 10yrs older than her (the age difference initially bothers the hero - not the heroine).

SOLVED!

Well, a suggestion, anyway. Try THE MAKINGS OF A GOOD MAN by Lietha Wards. It's available as an e-book published in 2011. Very similar plot!

January # C16

The wife, I think her name starts with an E, is abused by her husband. The husbands best friend (Jake?) has always loved her but was forced to watch as she married his best friend. It shows a flashback of a night when she knocks on his door at night, torn clothing and bloodied. His best friend has attacked her. In the beginning of the book, she walks into a bar where he is sitting, hoping to pick up a man. She is nervous and he walks over to her and hauls her out of the bar. Her husband, the golden boy, is a football player I believe. The ending is she chooses to marry Jake and happily ever after.

SOLVED!

Try UNDERSTOOD by Maya Banks.

January # C17

I'm looking for a Harlequin Presents book from the 2000s about a girl who becomes a nanny to a rich widower. Someone disapproves of her I think it's his mother so the hero accuses her of not caring for the boy. One night the boy darts out into the road and is almost hit by a car but the nanny saves him almost killing herself. The hero realizes he was wrong about her and marries her. The cover shows a man holding a brunette in a burgundy dress in his arms.

SOLVED!

This might be WIFE BY AGREEMENT by Kim Lawrence.

January # C21

I'm trying to find this novel that was available in Target about two years ago (2009-2010). I haven't read it but I want to (just couldn't afford it at the time). Anyway, I can't remember the title or author but I do remember that it has three very different half sisters who have to come together for some reason (possibly something to do with their father). I believe that one of the sisters was the main focus and heroine. Also, it was a contemporary. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't Nora Roberts but I can't be for sure. Also, I believe that one of the sisters was a huge flirt with every guy she met, the main character just wants a family, and I can't remember what the other sister is like. I also think that they have the same father and he's rich.

SOLVED!

This really does sound like MONTANA SKY by Nora Roberts.

January # C22

I am looking for a book published in the early 90's by a company that used lips as ether their spine decal or to rate the "hotness" of a book. The man is married, but his wife tells him he can have affairs as long as he uses something because she does not want to catch anything. They do not have children. The man meets a woman whom works for him or is a contractor for his company. She is a widow. They start an affair and it is fine for a while. She as a sister younger whom has a little boy. The little boy takes the condoms from the bedside table (The sister had told him they were balloons). When the man comes back from a business trip. He goes to the woman and says his wife had put his dog to sleep. It was an old dog that the wife did not like. The vet said he did it because the wife told him the man wanted it done but could not be there to see it. The man is devastated and sleeps with the mistress with out protection, because he says his marriage is over. She winds up pregnant but he thinks he is sterile because he wife had been pregnant by another guy before they were married, but "miscarried" it. He leaves the mistress because he thinks she slept with another guy while he was gone. He finds out later that the wife had an abortion and it went wrong so she could not have children and she did not want him to know because he wanted children when they first married (He is very rich). The people who told him the truth are the wife's sister and brother in law. He finally knows the truth and goes to the mistress. Their friends plant some sort of tree in the yard and had put blue ribbons on them because they thought she had had a boy. It was a girl and they were changing the ribbons to pink when the man and mistress drove up. She had them leave one blue ribbon for the dog that died. (because at some place in the book the man had brought the dog to her house and he had gone to the bathroom on her rosemary bush, she used the leaves from the top of the bush and he was going to plant her another one but never go to it.

SOLVED!

This is SATIN AND LACE by Danielle Shaw, from a publishing line called "Scarlet" that used a lip inprint on their books.

January # C23

I'm looking for a Harlequin Presents book from the 1990's I think where the heroine is in love her sister/best friend's husband (not sure). Setting: England? After he is widowed, he contacts her. In the beginning of the book, it is raining? Later, he tells her he wanted on his wedding day but it was too late. He might have met her on his wedding day...again not sure. Sounds a bit like Sarah's Child by Linda Howard but is not.

SOLVED!

This might be THE SECOND BRIDE by Catherine George.

January # C27

The book I remember is a Contemporary Romance, set mostly in Ireland. The main character (her name is possibly Kate, but I'm not positive on that) is left by her husband almost immediately after delivering their first child, a girl. Reeling from the divorce, she moves back in with her family, where she holes up depressed for awhile. She meets a man named Adam (sure of that name). I remember two scenes very vividly-in one, her father has a rowing machine or maybe a stationary bike set up which she begins using to vent her anger, which also happens to get her in shape again, and a scene in which she's preparing for a date with Adam and her sister(s?) are helping her get ready, they dye her ears purple with hair dye. By the end of the book, she has released her frustration and hurt with her ex-husband and is with Adam.

SOLVED!

This sounds like WATERMELON by Marian Keyes. It all fits except the heroine is Claire.

January # C29

I am looking for the title and author of a contemporary romance novel. I believe it is a harlequin book published sometime in the late 80's or early 90's. I think it takes place in England. The young woman ( I think her name is Olivia or Sophia) falls in the snow carry an antique. The hero helps her up and continues to shop at her fathers antique store. Her father dies and she asks the hero if he would like to buy any other pieces. He comes and offers her a job to put his personal library in order. She accepts and falls in love with him.

SOLVED!

This is FOLLY TO LOVE by Lynn Jacobs.

January # C34

It's a romance novel about a single mother with a baby. When the handsome, rich man shows up at her house she's a mess, hasn't showered, hasn't slept, and so forth. As the book continues the man sees the mother is in need of help, but refuses to be a "charity case", so without her knowing he has a special edited newspaper sent to her house. It was a sale on crib sets, so she calls all of her friends who has children to go see the sale. It turns out the man set up the store just for her.

SOLVED!

Try THE BLESSING by Jude Deveraux

January # C40

I am looking for a book that was a contemporary romance in the late 1990s or early 2000 that was about a receptionist and a doctor. The receptionist has pollen allergies and she does have a allergic reaction after she walks to work and doesn't take her allergy medicine and he helps her through it. I know at what point she thinks about cutting her really long hair since the doctor says something to her about it.

SOLVED!

This is one of the stories in the anthology A LONG TALL TEXAN SUMMER by Diana Palmer.

January # C45

The first is a I think a Harlequin or Silhoutte novel about a young married couple, the man ends up having an acdent and doesn't want the heroine to see him crippled...so he sends her away....she then becomes a famous model and is invited to a villa where her ex husband is getting married to this rich girl....it was about 15 years ago that I read this one and don't remember the heroine or guy's name. They endup back together in the end....thanks!

SOLVED!

This sounds like LADY BE BAD by Elaine Raco Chase.

January # C47

From what I remember, the beginning is about a woman(cant remember her name) who is married to a rich man who has a young son. She has a baby daughter with him. The half brother boy is obsessed with his baby sister. The mother runs away to hide from them. She hides by joining a traveling circus pretending to be a fortune teller.She then goes by the name Clare i believe and the daughter becomes Sky. A young man befriends them. The mother ends up murdered or dead somehow, so the young man cares for Sky for a while but thinks she will be better off with and older couple nearby. He abandons Sky with them and They finish raising her. I'm pretty sure Sky grows up to be an artist. This is where I get hazy, I know Sky goes to a big city (maybe New York). She ends up being around that young boy again, but also her grown up half brother. He is still obsessed with her and knows who she is. Anyways the story goes on, but i can remember at the end of the book they are at a lake house. The story is a romance but also a suspense story.

SOLVED!

Try FORTUNE by Erica Spindler.