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February 12, 2012
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February # H 1 A society lady has a brief affair with a businesman/tradesman/middle class guy and becomes pregnant. He guesses this and demands she marry him because he does not want his child to be a bastard.
February # H 2 Some 10 years past I read a medieval romance where the heroine marries a man who has a small son (not a baby, but maybe 3-5 year old child).The hero is tormented and shuts himself away from his young wife. The heroine, as I recall, liked to grow herbs. She befriends the hero's son in her garden, and by that she also gets closer to her husband.
February # H 3 I have been searcing for a book I read in the late 1980's or early 1990's. It was a historical romance with a pink colored cover. The story took place in the late 1800's early 1900's in the U.S. It involved a girl who was engaged and a friend of his comes to town and she falls in love with him instead. The plot involved a scene with a parlour game where the girl ends up in the closet with the friend of her fiance and they share a first kiss. She ends up with the friend and the fiance is hurt by it.
February # H 4 SOLVED! Try PERFECT SIN by Kat Martin.
February # H 5 SOLVED! Sounds like UNTIL YOU by Judith McNaught.
February # H 6 I am looking for a book I read about 15 years ago, (I don't know how old it was then). The heroine's name was Angeleigh. She was a young girl in the old west, her father taught her how to be tomboyish, hunting, knife throwing, etc.One day while out hunting some outlaws kill her parents and she vows to hunt them down and kill them. She calls them polecats I think. She dresses up like a boy, calling herself Lee, hiding her hair under a hat to go after them. somehow she meets a guy, he is sick or something, they end up spending the night in a cave. When he is awake he thinks she is a boy, but when he is feverish she sleeps next to him to keep him warm, he cuddles her and calls her Angel. He thinks it was a dream when he wakes up and sees her dressed like a boy again. I think later in the story she gets captured and sold to a brothel where her knife throwing skills come in handy(if I am not mixing up two stories).
February # H 7 I think this is 2nd in a series. About a man in America who wants a wife as a mother for his halfbreed daughter. He is determined not to have any relationship with his new wife other than a mother for his daughter. He is unconvinced that this city lady will be able to cope with the harsh outback. She is persued by a wealthy banker from her home town. The new husband pays off her 1500 debt but the man follows to be sure she is happy. The man's neighbour is a friend to the new wife who recommended her for the role.
February # H 8 Around 3 years ago, I read a historic, romantic novel during a time I volunteered in a home for elderly people in germany, and I never got to finish it.... please help me to find the title.... I only remember little things. The novel took place in 18th or 19th century, and a young lady was brought/ or kidnapped to a big mysterious house in the middle of nowhere, by a man with aristocratic backround, but lived for a long time, or was raised in an islamic environment... I don't remember if they got merried before or after.... but in that house/castle there was a door which devided the house in two parts, and it was always closed, one day the door was open and she goes thru to find that part of the house decorated like a middle-eastern palace... and the man who brought her there, on his knees, praying on a carpet in another language.
February # H 9 SOLVED! Try CAPTIVE BRIDE by Johanna Lindsey. February # H 10 I'm searching for a regancy romance book, about a girl who will be forced into a marriage with a man she dosen't want. So, to escape the fate that her parents will force on her, she goes to a Lord who is known as a rakehell in the ton. She asks him to take her virginity and so to compromise her, so that she would be unmarrigable. But the Lord isn't the rakehell that seems makes him out to be. He prefers a quiet life.
February # H 11 I am looking for a book that was based in medieval times. The main character was a village girl that people said was a witch. So when she decides to head over to a castle where this "demon" lord lives to prove he's no demon at all, no one seems to care. The "demon" was actually a young castle lord that left the village years before and who has back problems. The first thing he said to her upon her arrival at the castle was that she better hurry and serve him, because he thought she was a prostitute. After a while, of living together in the castle, he starts to fall for her, but still feels horrible because he has back problems. They make love eventually, but after a series of events, he ends up dying. The only way that he "lives" is by turning into a vampire. They find each other again in the end, and live together, except that now he's a vampire. I think the girl's name was something like CEIDRE, or DEIDRE.
February # H 12 Please I am trying to find out about this Barbara Cartland Historical Novel, I read it in the 90s but i'm sure it was written before then. The heroine was named Antonia and I her friend was named Toni. She agreed to impersonate her friend who was to travel to somewhere in Asia. The heroine could also speak the native language of the place she went to and because of this, she was able to save the hero from some people plotting to kill him.
February # H 13 Looking for the title to a book read 20-30 years ago. Believe it was an historical romance that was not part of a series. The main character was a woman who was aboard a vessel possibly crossing the ocean, perhaps to meet her husband. She is shipwrecked, alone, and finds out that she is pregnant. A native couple help her cross a very large desert, and while traveling they must save their urine for the extra fluid. Later in the story she is in a place where she walks down a large corridor between tall rocks and there is a huge hive of bees overhead, which could kill if disturbed. She gives birth to a child on her own while crouching and grasping a large tree. Later in the story she is in a place where there are other people, and I believe is raped and becomes pregnant again. She gives birth to this child after a long agonizing labor, and doesn't like the child because of her hatred of his father. The setting could have been rural Australia? The father of her second child seems as though he loves her and things will work out, but I believe that the heroine eventually is reunited with her husband. Yes, it is a romance, plus adventure, and possibly set in the early 1900's. This is not THE JEWELLED SERPENT by Julia Fitzgerald.
February # H 14 SOLVED! This is THE DOVE AND THE KNIGHT by Lori Wick.
February # H 15 I read a historical romance novel a couple of years ago. The main character is a young girl travelling on a ship, or she hides on the ship in order to get to her destination. The captain is the main hero, and he begins to form a relationship with the girl, with full intentions to let her go when they arrive at their destination. They arrive at their destination, he leaves, and she finds out she's pregnant. (The main hero is a lord I believe.) She hunts the captain's home and meets his brother and sister-in-law. They take her in until she has her baby. ( I think she tells them that she married the captain). The girl has the baby, and lives at their house for quite a while. The captain arrives home to see the girl (who fell in love with him) holding a baby.
February # H 16 I'm hoping someone can help me. I seem to remember reading a Johanna Lindsey book back in the day where there was a little girl who had two different eye colors. It has always bothered me that I could not remember which book this was in. And I've wondered if she had ever written this child's story once she had grown up. Does this sound familiar to anyone? February # H 17 I'm looking for a book set back in the time of highlanders -i believe- It starts with two people stuck as prisoners. the girl for some reason is able to undo her manacles "cuffs" because she used to play in the dungeons with her brother when she was younger and she helps him escape, i don't remember if he was badly beaten or what.
February # H 18 SOLVED! Try TONIGHT AND FOREVER by Caryl Wilson.
February # H 19 SOLVED! This might be MISS LACEY'S LAST FLING by Candace Hern.
February # H 20 I read a book in the late eighties that had a mixture of romance novel and magic. The main characters had special powers (mind reading, creating force fields etc.) and they were battling some evil creatures that were once human but had been "turned into a lizard type of creature." I remember that ordinary human people were turned by a sort of appendage that shot out of the lizard people into the bellybuttons of humans.
February # H 21 SOLVED! Yup - try SECRET FIRE by Johanna Lindsey.
February # H 22 It's a Historical romance. Ithink Harlequin Historical. The book is about a Sir Atwood who in his will bequeats the Atwood mansion jointly to his daughter and the main guy. I think the main guy is his business partner. But the condition is that the Atwood mansion will be theirs only if they marry within the stipulated time of 6 months or tthe mansion goes to her relative, her evil cousin (male) I think. Several years earlier, the main guy had kissed the girl at a party and this as witnessed by some people. This led to her going away to live with a relative I think for the next 3 years, she eventually returns only after her mother dies. By now she keeps to herself and doesn't go out for parties and all and is mostly a recluse. Her father is worried about her as she is mostly by herself and sad and he makes this condition in his will to ensure that she is happy and taken care of. this she doesnt understand until near end of the book. There are scenes whereby the main guy comes upon her weeping by her fathers grave bitterly after hearing the conditions of the will and he feels the need to comfort her. There is still the same old-attraction between them and she keeps fighting the attraction throughout. She is in mourning throughout the whole book and hence wears black until the end when they get married. Eventually she is kidnapped along with a little boy (i think he is one of her friends child) while they are by a stream by the evil cousin in the hopes that he can persuade her not to marry the main guy... and if she doesn't comply he has no qualms of violating her, so that then she won't marry the main guy and he can get the mansion. Fortunately she comes to no harm as the little boy is there with her as well. Eventually she is rescued by the main guy who charges on horseback to where she is. they confess their love for each other and they eventually get married where she now looks ethereal in white and in the last scene he tells her that he dismissed her maid servant (when she wonders when her maid servant is) cuz he can perform the task of undressing her better than the maid servant.
February # H 23 It takes place post civil war a blind british socialite travels back to the easter island area with an american sea captain to look for her missing father and younger brother.
February # H 24 I remember the start was set near a Lake in North America somewhere possibly even Canada, around the time America was a new country and was fighting England for independence. It was based on a maid working in this household with her sickly sibling, i think her sister. She is approached by a wealthy man who is with many others in a large group of investors, who are trying to strategize a way to win the war against England. He asks her to help him spy on another wealthy man who is in the group, who many believe to be selling their strategies to England. She agrees and she approaches the man she is to spy on and he agrees to hire her. She also notices how he has only got African-American maids and butlers and how he talks to them like they are his equals.
February # H 25 SOLVED! A reader suggests this might be part of the ANGELIQUE series by SergeAnne Golon.
February # H 26 SOLVED! This is MORE THAN A MISTRESS by Mary Balogh.
February # H 27 SOLVED! Might be SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME by Lisa Kleypas. Another reader suggests ROYAL SEDUCTION by Jennifer Blake. Good luck!
February # H 28 I'm looking for at least two novels written in the 1980s or later. I can't recall character names or much detail, but in the first the heroine helps a war hero to heal of serious wounds. The details are dark and vividly evoked. In the other, a character who is a dandy with a Brutus haircut seduces an innocent and then falls in love with her.
February # H 29 I hope you can help me find a book i read, its a medieval story, the heroine lived as a man to become a knight. Even at the end the hero and heroin maintain her cover and lived together as men under the discreet and benign care of their servants in a remote castle. I can't remember more details but I think it was a harlequin historical.
February # H 30 SOLVED! This might be FORBIDDEN LOVE by Karen Robards.
February # H 31 SOLVED! This is CRIMSON RAPTURE by Jennifer Horsman.
February # H 32 The novel is a historical romance, I'm not sure from what time period or place exactly. It is about a woman who pretends to be blind in order to get a job as the governess of a widowed man's little boy. I believe she suspects that the father is guilty of murdering his late wife. Someone is also after the governess, we don't know why until towards the end. Over time, she falls in love with the father, and of course finds out he is innocent.
February # H 33 I read this historical romance at least 8 years ago or more and I'm not sure if it was new then. But here is what I remember: A girl was riding her stallion and she rode it down the mountain. A man, possibly a rancher saw her and followed her back to buy the horse. The girl did not want to sell it but her dad did. While at the girl's home the man seduced her and the girl's father caught them. The father forced a wedding. The girl continued to live at home but ends up pregnant. Something happens and she ends up lost and with amnesia. She stays with a kindly old man while she recovers. When she gets her memory back she goes to the home of her husband. Sadly thats about all I can rember except that I thought the name had something to do with the horse and the cover had the girl and horse on it.
February # H 34 I am looking for romance nove I read about 16 years ago about a woman who gets married to a man and then he and his friend are sent off to war. The husband is presumed killed in the war and when the friend comes back home he marries his friends wife since her husband did not have any brothers. The widows husband who was presumed dead comes back and according to the law they are still married and she must go back to him even though she loves the friend.
February # H 35 Hi, I have been looking for historical romance book I read sometimes back in early to mid 2000s. I cannot remember the title or the author. The book, I believe, starts with a Duke (maybe a Marquis thou I strongly believe it’s a Duke) in a carriage and this girl (Lady) leaps into his carriage to champion the poor / better living conditions for them, I think. Her dress accidentally rips when she’s getting into the carriage and because there was a big crowd outside the carriage, the Duke forces her to marry him to avoid a scandal because he believes people will think that he’d compromised her. The Duke resented the Lady for that and I think he was into scientific stuff or inventions (can’t remember). The girl had two friends, and I think they called themselves ‘little friends….’of something I can’t remember and the fought for good causes. One of the friends was a tough gypsy and the other a blonde who I think was called Penelope (she was fragile, swooned when she saw the duke and I think she married a footman). The girl also gets pregnant, I think her gypsy friend stubbed a man and there was a malnourished boy.
February # H 36 I don't remember much about this historical romance I read, but I know that she was near the [Scottish?] border and when raiders came she for some reason insisted on going with them. Later she tries to escape, maybe after she learns where they are going. Her friend, who is also going to be her sister-in-law, I think, is with her and she sleeps with her captor, hoping to protect her. He hadn't really wanted to sleep with the other lady,however, and when she becomes pregnant he unwillingly marries her. I think her brother also shows up by this point and there is a double wedding? She keeps putting herself in danger, and her husband gets really mad because this also endangers his heir. There is some big dramatic fight scene in which she pretends to be a knight to save the castle or something, and he is mad again because she put both her and the baby in danger. In the end everyone is fine and she has her baby and everyone is happy forever after...
February # H 37 I'm looking for a romance novel (I think Regency) about a married couple who have never consummated their marriage because the wife originally loved another and the husband could never make his move. Now she's gotten over her old crush and wonders why her husband doesn't love her, even though he secretly does. He's also secretly a bandit or something and accidentally runs into his wife when he's wearing his mask. She doesn't recognize him though, and he uses that opportunity to seduce her. She feels confused about her feelings towards the masked man and her husband, but one day discovers they're one and the same when she discovers a cut on her husband's arm that she also saw on the bandit's arm.
February # H 38 I'm looking for a historical romance about a red headed female bounty hunter. She has really long hair that she keeps braided so she can hide it and pretend she's a boy and she always dresses like a man. Her brother started making her dress like that so men at the whorehouse where their mother worked wouldn't mess with her. I think somehow her brother goes missing or gets killed and for some reason she's leading some guy through the west looking for someone I can't really remember. One scene I can remember between the heroine and hero is that the hero sets up a fight to raise some money. Once the hero wins the fight the heroine recognizes the loser as a bounty. She then takes the hero to a hotel to take care of his wounds. Someone knocks on their door looking for the hero and who they think was a boy (but was really the heroine) that rigged the fight. To make the men leave them alone the heroine undoes her hair and walks to the door in her camisole and a blanket so the men leave thinking there was nothing rigged about the fight and the hero was with a hooker instead of his accomplice.
February # H 39 I am looking for a book I read six years ago. It was historical romance, set in Spain. A lady and her maid are hiding from the army, they are aided by the Hero and he helps them return to England. What he doesn't know is, she is pregnant and this baby will be his half brother. His father and him are spies and his father knew he would help. The book cover has a lady in a cloak going to a house with a wrought iron gate. The book has a split cover with a picture of a mansion inside. Could be Regency, and could have a sequel.
February # H 40 SOLVED! Try MOONSPUN MAGIC by Catherine Coulter.
February # H 41 SOLVED! Try SEDUCTION AND SCANDAL by Charlotte Featherstone.
February # H 42 SOLVED! This sounds like THE INDISCRETION by Judith Ivory.
February # H 43 SOLVED! This is BRIDE OF THE ISLE by Margo Maguire. February # H 44 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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