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January # H 2

I think there were 3 or four friends. One meets a young lady who seems to be tormented by her uncle (and maybe brother) and then he follows her to her uncle's estate where he finds out that the uncle punishes her by having her kneel on small stones. so he helps her escape. On the way away they make love. He delivers her by his sister and goes back to Londen. Mean time she finds out she is pregant and leaves without telling him where. He searches for her and finds her in some small fishing village - she cab write stories and thats how he finds out - his stepfather is a publisher or something like that.

SOLVED!

Try ALL I EVER NEEDED by Jo Goodman, the third in her "Compass Quartet" series.

January # H 3
I am trying to find a book about a man who marries a younger women after promising her father he would look after her. The book is set in maybe medieval England. I remember the man is somewhat controlling and very jealous at first, but then becomes softer once his wife is pregnant. The book cover was red with no people on it. 

SOLVED!

This might be a long shot but try FIRE SONG by Catherine Coulter.

January # H 6

I read a book about a year ago, but the book was definitely not new when I read it. Near the beginning of the book, a woman is in her house and somehow gets taken back in time and ends up on some sort of
nobleman's land. The guy is a real jerk at first. I remember he also has horses. The man and woman fight constantly. Eventually some sort of fairy shows up to kill the mean guy and take the girl. The fairy
brings the girl back to present time, but the other guy follows her and brings her back to the past, and they get married. I think he might be some sort of Highlander, but it is not the Highlander series. In the book I read she was taken from home. Not a Museum like the highlander series says. I also remembered she had a cat and after she was taken she missed her cat a lot and wished she could have it with her.

SOLVED!

This could be HIGHLAND MIST by Karen Marie Moning. When the heroine goes back to the past, she has her cat with her.

January # H 7

A physician (on graduation day) is kidnapped by aliens to be sold into slavery and during the trip on the space ship she falls in love with captain and is put in danger as his enemy takes her and is going to kill her.

SOLVED!

Try MOONDUST AND MAGIC by Janelle Taylor. There are several sequels, too.

January # H 8

Plot - regency era, abandoned bride, husband seeks wife who is living under her brother's protection. He forceshis way back to her life and back to his home. They've come to love each other. Then his mistress turns up and left him with their illegitiemate child.
Funny scene was he thought his wife left him and chased her to a tavern (his wife was sending her brother on his way home from a visitation) and declared his love to everyone in the tavern.

SOLVED!

This could be THE MARRIAGE BED by Laura Lee Guhrke.

January # H 10

It was a western like novel and a lady goes undercover in order to spy on something(I think it was firearm transports?) And a man was sent to watch over her. I believe they metup at a small town. And I know they get captured by Indians later. He may have been half native American, half American.

SOLVED!

This might be AUTUMN DOVE by Sylvie F. Sommerfield.

January # H 11

The book starts out that the couple has recently lost their child. She has been shutting down and is not responding at all to her husband so he decides to try to shake her out of her depression by leaving her and going to England. When she finally does come out of it to discover he is gone she follows him on her own ship. She used to be a pirate/privateer who sailed with her husband’s brother. The girl and his brother were attacked and then tied together and thrown overboard. The sail together seeking revenge for a while before she meets and marries his brother. They end up in England but divorced and courting new spouses. He is courting a woman and she is being courted by the woman’s father who are both impoverished but trying to hide it until they land wealthy spouses. She end up feeling betrayed by her husband’s brother who has turned her ship into a casino. The man courting her tries to abuse a young servant girl that she has taken in so she decides she has had enough and leaves England. I thought that her pirate name was Emerald but cannot be sure.

SOLVED!

This sounds like CAPTIVE EMBRACES by Fern Michaels.

January # H 12

I am looking for a book that I read back in the 90's. It was a historical romance but I cannot remember which time period. I remember that the main character is a woman who is burying her abusive husband at the beginning of chapter one. I remember that no one came to the funeral because no one liked him. She ends up marrying a very nice man to save herself and her house servants from being thrown out of their home. There is a specific scene which has always stuck out in my mind. She ends up breaking a glass by accident and the man calls her name and she says "there's no need to say anything" and then without his knowledge she goes outside and waits by a wood pile where her previous husband would beat her. The main house servant asks the new husband how long he is going to make her wait outside and he goes out and gets her. The abusive husband's mother ends up coming to live with them and she is not very nice.

SOLVED!

Maybe NIGHT FIRE by Catherine Coulter?

January # H 13

I read it about 10-15 years ago. It is a historical romance about a woman that is famous for wearing red pants. It starts out with her going to help her sister get out of her marriage to a nobleman. He is a widower marrying the sister because she looks like his dead wife. She succeeds in helping her sister run off and marry someone else. The nobleman decides to go after and pursue the woman who stopped his marriage. The woman does not care about the rules of society. He succeeds in his pursuit of her only to find out she has a secret she's been keeping from him, she has a child, and the father has stolen the child from her and has been blackmailing her for money.

SOLVED!

This sounds like THEN CAME YOU by Lisa Kleypas.

January # H 16

I read a historical romance novel that I believe was written in the 1980's. A girl, her dad, and an aunt have ship troubles, so must seek help from this pirate island that supposedly has gold. The pirate king and the girl fall in love, make love, and the king drugs her to get her back on the ship with her dad and aunt. She finds out she's pregnant and the aunt wants her to take some herb to abort the baby. The pirate king eventually locates her and their son on an island. I would love to know the title of this one. It may have amarillo in the title.

SOLVED!

This might be DESIRE IN THE SUN by Karen Robards.

January # H 19

I was wondering if you could help me find a book I've been searching for. Its about a young girl who, in the beggining, is in love with this guy named paul, but she is a wild child. Her father sends her to france to live with her aunt and learn to be a lady. While there she meets a guy named nicolas through her friend, and she and nicolas become friends. Whe she returns home she finds out her father had arranged a marriage for her, this was done for him to avoid debtors prison. As she gets to know they guy she was supposed to marry she falls in love. Sometime in the story the guy is told that she was sleeping with other men and that angers him. The two ppart on less amicable terms but eventually get back together. I believe it is a historical novel. She didn't marry paul or nicolas. Her whole reason for agreeing to go to france was so when she returned she could impress paul. But the guy she married had arranged with her father for her hand in exchange for paying off her fathers debts and keeping him out of debtors prison. She doesn't like him at first but eventually they fall in love.

SOLVED!

This is WHITNEY, MY LOVE by Judith McNaught.

January # H 20

I'm trying to remember a book that I read a few years ago. I remember that the heroine saves a child, I'm pretty sure the child is a boy but not totally certain. The child is actually related to the hero( I think he is the child's uncle). Since she was dressed a a servant when she saved the child, she gave him the name of one of the maids( I think she said Meg). So the hero is trying to find the heroine, but then when he goes to attend a ball, he finds out that she really isn't a servant, but instead is an American. I think the book was set in the Regency period.

SOLVED!

Try SPELNDID by Julia Quinn, or possibly WHITNEY, MY LOVE by Judith McNaught.

January # H 23

I read a book in 2009, I don't remember the title or author or year it published, but Ido remember the beginning. A woman poses as a highway man to help her father. One time while she is robbing someone it happens to be a man and he kidnaps her. After that, he locks her in a hotel room while he runs a couple of errands. She spies a man out the window and convinces him to come up. When he opens the door she hits him over the head with something and escapes, after that the kidnapper finds her again and takes her.

SOLVED!

This sounds like A DARING PASSION by Rosemary Rogers.

January # H 24

I don't remember much, but what I do remember is that its about a lady that promised a friend of hers that if anything happened to her she would takecare of her daughter. The friend dies so the lady has to keep her promise and travels to the little girls home,once she gets there the little girls father is mean and wants to get rid of her but since he can't takecare of the little girl properly relents and let's her stay. The lady then takes care of the little girl as her nanny and with time the man who is a duke or a lord ends up sleeping with her then they get married at the end.

SOLVED!

This sounds like DANGEROUS LORD, INNOCENT GOVERNESS by Christine Merrill, though it's a recent release. Might be worth a try. It has the exact storyline. Another, older book is WHITE MIST by Jaclyn Redding, which is similar.

January # H 26

I need some help remebering the title of a book I read. I read it about 6 or 7 years ago. The hero returns from america or abroad to claim his inheritance and he has a sister or a ward. They get into a fight and she runs away, she gets lost in london, and finds safety with a band of oprhaned boys (the lost boys?) The hero seeks help from a widow who is known to help the unfortunate in that area. I think the hero's name is Tristan but not sure.
The widow is the love interest.

SOLVED!

Try A KISS IN THE DARK by Kimberly Logan. The second book in the series is A KISS BEFORE DAWN.

January # H 27

I am looking for the name of a regency romance book or series of books. What I can remember is that an extremely wealthy duke decides to marry. He settles on a very beautiful but spoiled younger sister, instead of the very busty and plain elder sister. The girl's father tricks the duke by switching the sisters at the wedding. The duke is angry but grows to eventually love his busty bride. The second brother ends up taking the spoiled sister in hand and marries her. A third brother seems to be fathering children everywhere but is really faking his rogue ways and has an orphanage. He later marries the lady who runs the orphanage. I believe a garden with erotic marble statues is in this story. I thought this was the first book in a series but it may be a stand alone.

SOLVED!

This is THE SHERBROOKE BRIDE by Catherine Coulter.

January # H 28

I remember a good portion of the plot as well as it had to do with U.S. Indians during colonial
America. In the prologue, there's a family (Mother, father, son and daughter) in a wagon which comes under attack by a group of Indians, I don't remember what happens during the skirmish except that the
parents are murdered, something happens to the son and the daughter is rescued by another tribe or something like that. After the prologuethe daughter has been living and assimilated quite nicely into thetribe (i believe the chief is her surrogate father), anyway she comes out of a specially designated tent for women going through theirmenstrual cycle and tumbles into a a visiting man from another tribe.He's trying to ally his tribe with hers. I don't remember much from this point on except that he asks the chief to marry her and they do,something that also stood out is that the heroine has dyed her hairblack/dark brown instead of keeping it red in order to fit in with the tribe's people. Also, I believe the man from the visiting tribe had a vision of her when he volunteered for a medicine man to induce said vision and when he crashed into her/saw her for the first time he had
no qualms about marrying her on the spot. There's a twist towards the end when the heroine finds her long lost brother (now a soldier) who is prejudiced against Indians and has been slaughtering them in
retribution for his slain parents and sister being kidnapped. He kidnaps his sister and thinks he's protecting her until he realizes his mistakes.

SOLVED!

Several readers suggest BLACK HORSE by Veronica Blake.

January # H 29

It's about this girl who lives with her father who owns a bookstore and she disguises herself as a boy and spies on the events going on in the ton and then writes about it. During this time there is some prince (or maybe a diplomat) from some foreign country (Russia?) who is visiting and the girl has been writing about him. Somehow or the other the prince catches the girl (disguised as a boy) and they sort of bond. The prince even takes the girl thinking that he is a boy to a brothel so that the girl/boy can lose his virginity. Later the prince finds out her real identity and they start having an affair ...

SOLVED!

This is SPLENDOR by Brenda Joyce.

January # H 30

The action took place in Scotland, it was a historical romance. An English lord with his army had a castle under the siege. The family who owned the castle were hiding somewhere in the cellar, but the young lady decided to go out through a hidden tunnel and get to the tent of the hero. She left the castle in disguise and as far as I remember pretended to be a "gift" for the lord. She brought him some food to which she added something to make him sleep. But he didn't drink or eat it and when she tried to stab him he stopped her and imprisoned her in his tent. I don't know what happened next because I only read this fragment. I also remember that this hero had a best friend, another warrior. If I am correct his name started with "H" and he was the hero of the next book in the series. He was wounded and some Scottish lady was helping him recover.

SOLVED!

Try LORD OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS by Madeline Hunter.

January # H 35

I'm searching for a novel where the plot is: orphaned heroine raised by grandmother, fell in love with distant cousin who later married their other distant cousin who was later on murdered. heroine was suspected for the murder but it was the grand mother who killed the victim by accident.

SOLVED!

Actually, this sounds a lot like the contemporary romance SHADES OF TWILIGHT by Linda Howard. Could it be?

January # H 39

It's about a young woman that is a healer...like she heals by placing her hands on the person and the wounds disappear. She saves the hero and I can't remember if they are married or get married...but He's imprisoned and she begs to heal him and they let her heal him...I think I read it in the mid- 90s.

SOLVED!

A reader suggests you try A ROGUE IN A KILT by Sandy Blair, though it was published a bit later than the mid-90s..

January # H 40

The story plot centers on an Irish man (I think he had a title) who seeks revenge on an English “Lord” by kidnapping his daughter and taking her to his castle in Ireland. The Irish man seduces her and keeps her virtually a slave in his castle generally mistreating her because he hates her father. Over time he comes to admire her bravery and pluck and falls in love with her as she does with him. The plot takes a twist when the Irishman’s brother or cousin arrives at the castle and informs the Irish man that the girl is actually his half-sister because her father had an affair with their mother who conceived the Irishman. The Irishman realizing he is in love with his sister arranges to have her secretly sent back to her father. Meanwhile her father has found out who kidnapped his daughter and captures the Irishman. His daughter finds out where he is being held and releases him. The Irishman is near death so she takes him back to his castle in Ireland, nurses him back to health and then leaves him, I cannot remember why. She is pregnant and ends up in France – not sure if it’s during the revolution? She has the baby and is reunited with her lover who has found out that they are not related and are free to marry.

SOLVED!

This sounds like STORMFIRE by Christine Monson.

January # H 42

About 15-20 years ago, I read a Scottish romance about a laird who took a wife he didn't like, didn't trust, and at a gathering, she saw that he was about to be shot with an arrow, and either jumped in front of him or pushed him out of the way, the arrow struck her.. i think in the shoulder.. and after she was able to get around, she was in the hall, and all his men bowed down to show their support of her. she possibly got pregnant in the story, was kidnapped,
but the laird saved her.

SOLVED!

Try THE BRIDE by Julie Garwood. Another reader suggests this might actually be three books by Garwood, mixed together: THE PRIZE, THE BRIDE, and SAVING GRACE. Another reader suggests THE VIKING, a recent re-release by Bobbi Smith, which has many similarities.

January # H 43

This book was a little paperback Gothic I think. I don't remember much. This woman went to be a governess to this teenager who's mother had either died or been killed by wolves. The hero was possibly her father or uncle. There was a pack of wolves terrorizing the area. It turned out that the girl she was governess to was 'controlling' the pack somehow. She was mad, and locked her governess out of the castle so the wolves would get her. The hero came just in time and let her back in, but the wolves turned on the girl then.

SOLVED!

Try THE HOUNDS OF CARVALLO by Frances Cowen.

January # H 45

I'm desperately looking for a historical romance book that's title has eluded me for months, which needless to say is driving me a bit crazy! I remember only bits and pieces that being that the heroine is in love with the hero but its a secret she holds dearly. She has a secret reading place (in the wall?) where she is hiding the day the hero asks her brother for her hand in marriage. She is ecstatic, but quickly is disappointed when the hero says he wants to marry her only because she is fitting. Her brother grants the hero permission to court her. But she decides to lead him on a merry chase. Ultimately he falls in love with her.

SOLVED!

Try THE EARL'S DILEMMA by Emily May.