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February # C1

I read it between 2004 and 2009, the story was something like this. Two sisters in England fly to Greece to find younger sisters lover. The younger sister is pregnant ,they stay at a hotel from which the older sister rents a scooter to find the house of the guy but the brakes of the scooter fail and she gets hurt. When the older brother of the lover finds out why she is in Greece he thinks that she is the one pregnant and tries to capture a young rich kid. The two English sisters get kicked out of the hotel and end up staying at the older brothers second house. The two older siblings fall in love ,but he refuses to act on it. She wants to leave but makes a last attempt to make him see the truth about her and the love between their younger siblings, she takes a midnight swim and almost drowns.

SOLVED! A reader suggests DARK APOLLO by Sara Craven.

February # C2

I think it was published in 80s-90s, a Mills & Boon romance. The heroine is an aspiring actress who goes for an audition at the start of the book. One of the people judging the audition is the hero, who is also the director of the movie. To her surprise, she is selected as the second female lead in the movie. The movie crew then go to some outdoor location for the shoot where an attraction develops between the hero and heroine. This causes the main female lead of the movie to be jealous and she tries to push the heroine off a cliff or something towards the end of the book, and the hero saves her. I think the author name starts with a J, but I’m not sure.

SOLVED! Try WHIRLWIND by Charlotte Lamb.

February # C3

It starts out with the h moving to a new small town for a fresh start. She moves into a hotel and becomes friend with the owners and drinks her Coffee with them. They have a pool at the hotel. She first see the H at the hotel with a woman. She becomes friend with a hippie couple who has a bakery and I think her name is poppy. Hippie rides a bike with a basket on it. She get to know the hero falls in love. He drives a motor cycle and has been watching her. There is a crazy man who is kidnapping women and killing them. He cuts there hair off and saves it on his wall. He kidnapped the hippie woman and they find her in a field not dead but hurt. The kidnapper then takes the h but they end up saving her.

SOLVED! Try SWEET DREAMS by Kristen Ashley.

February # C4

I'm looking for a book I started to read but was stolen! it began with the heroine wating at the airport to welcome her son after he had gone visiting his father, her ex-husband, and his security men with him were not happy that she met them at the airport! they were insisting she should have waited at home for the delivery of the boy! I remember 1 of the security men said they were responsible for the little boys safety until they got to his home! I didn't take note of their names though...

SOLVED! Possibly THE VERANCHETTI MARRIAGE by Lynne Graham

February # C5
This book i think may be by elizabeth lowell or someone like her style writing. It is about a woman who is in love with this guy and has been for a long time. But he has super super trust issues and doesnt trust her and doesnt want to love her. She gets pregnant and he pushes her away even harder, even while she is pregnant. She has pregnancy complications that she keeps hidden from him and slowly it becomes heart wrenching because she loves him and he keeps pushing her down. Its a contemperary novel. No actually time frame given but definitly modern. It is also like a farm or ranch type novel. he is very old school and straight laced. It's not FIRE AND RAIN by Lowell, it's similar but a large part of the book is her being pregnant and him going out with other women and her getting more sick and ill.

SOLVED! Maybe SARAH'S CHILD by Linda Howard. Another reader suggests THE CASE OF EHE MESMERIZING BOSS by Diana Palmer.

February # C6

The book I'm looking for has 2 stories in it. The 2nd story I can't remember what it was about, but the 1st story was about a woman who was sad about her miscarriage. Her husband (who had a relationship with her cousin before they married) who she loves thinks the marriage is for convenience. Her husband loves her but doesn't tells her. She one day she tells him that she pregnant, but he thinks that she had an affair because he had a Vasectomy. She gets angry and they have an argument while walking towards the stairs. Her grandfather comes in and she gets distracted and she fell down the stairs. It's months later and her mother said she thinks her husband is having an affair with her cousin since she saw them together. There is a family get together and her cousin announce she is pregnant(which is by another man) during dinner. The wife thinks her husband is the father and she storms out of her grandfather house. I also remember that the wife also have to have skin contact with her husband. I think it was a harlequins book.

SOLVED! Maybe A SICILIAN MARRIAGE by Michelle Reid.

February # C7

This book is several,years old. The hero is injured early in the book and is temporarily blinded. He works for a government agency and they go to his ex wife for help. They tell her he has severe facial injuries and is heavily bandaged but ask her to identify him if she can. She,knows immediately that it isn't him but pretends it is to protect him. Quite a bit of the book is devoted to her staying with him as he recovers but then h finds out he is not her ex and thinks she stayed because they were paying her to be there. She leaves then and goes home and eventually he follows.

SOLVED! Sounds like WHITE LIES by Linda Howard.

February # C9

I read a book about 5 years ago. It was about a family who was poor. They lived in a old home. They had a boy that stayed in the back like a servant. There was two sisters. One of the sisters always wanted a better life. One day she climbed up on a table in her kitchen to rub a statue that they said looked like a devil with horns. She made a wish when she rubbed the statue for a better life. Shortly after two brothers where in the area, maybe for business. One brother looked similiar to the statue that the sister rubbed. He had a beard and I believe was heavy set. They all spent time together. The main character loved the brother that looked like the statue, but he was infatuated by her sister, who was the prettier one. Then he proposed to her sister and they went to a big city.
The brothers were very wealthy and when they moved to the city the apartment was really large and the sister bought tons of new things, including beautiful clothing.
It may have been a contemporary romance. I think when they were at their home in the country because they were so poor that it seemed very rustic. When the main character went to visit her sister she found out that the sister didn't love the man. This crushed the main character because she loved him. Then the sister ran away with the brother. As a side story, the servant liked the less pretty sister (main character) but she wouldn't have anything to do with him. He began modeling to get money to win her over. This didn't work. The older woman that had set up the modeling began making passes at the servant boy. There was also a stone tower near the house and the main character would spend time in there. In the end, her sister goes to America, I believe, to be with the brother. The main character remains alone.

SOLVED! This sounds like I CAPTURE THE CASTLE by Dodie Smith.

February # C10

I read this mills and boon book in 1980's/90's; lead man is hell bent on revenge on the leading lady for spoiling his wedding plans with her sister or best friend, who is having an affair? He forces her to his home where she strikes up a conversation with his cook (mother?) and she reveals her father cruelly told her her mother was dead and only discovered the truth when it was too late. He is listening and realises there is more to her than he thought and maybe she didnt stop the wedding to spite him. I remember she is poor and only has soup/baked beans in her cupboard. He is particularly cruel to her in his anger, but she takes his cruelty in order to protect him.

SOLVED! Try MISTRESS OF THE GROOM by Susan Napier.

February # C11

A mills and boon where the heroines father embezzled money from the company he was working at. The company owner who is the hero then blackmails the heroine to be his mistress so that he does not persecute her father. The heroine does not care very much for her father because he is constantly unfaithful to her sick mother who still loves him hopelessly. The heroine was an artist and the affair with the hero ended when the heroines mother died. The heroine ran away to a cottage far and painted the hero then she came back to him in the end.

SOLVED! Try UNTAMED ITALIAN, BLACKMAILED INNOCENT by Jacqueline Baird.

February # C14
A woman meets a man working at a camp; he is the tennis coach. They have this summer romance, but due to an misunderstanding, the woman runs away. She has a child from that meeting, who she raises. She returns to the camp many years later as a photographer. The man returns as a the tennish coach just for the summer (but he has another job). They reunite during the camp and he finds out he has a daughter. At the end of the book, they clear the misunderstanding that cause their separation and end up together.

SOLVED! This is SWEET EMBER by Bonnie Drake, later republished under Barbara Delinsky's name.