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March 16, 2008

 
Needle in a Haystack
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Here are some descriptions of past romance titles that are being sought out by fellow romance readers. We warn you, these are the toughest of the tough! Questions here will be posted for six months. Readers, if you have any answers for these questions, please email TRR, and be sure to include the month and the question number.


December #2
I read this contemporary romance in the 90's, but it could be older. The girl moves from her hometown after her fiance dies, which she had foreseen. The guy's a not- friendly neighbour & a former soldier. There was one scene where they where arguing while finishhing each others' sentences. And, in another, the girl whacks a mugger by picking up moves from her neighbour's brain. At the end of the story, the girl gets hit by a car & becomes wheelchair-bound, but they get married. And, the guy becomes a writer. Any idea what book & author? Thanks in advance!


December #7
i am looking for a Harlequin book,i don't know whats it called or who wrote it,i just have vague details since i read this book about 15 years ago,(1993 or before book), details are the hero and heroine are a married couple with a 6 or 7 year old boy,they got married for some other reason besides love ,i can't remember how they got a kid,mainly they have both been leading separate lives since they have a multiple homes around the world,they are never together at the same time in the same place,until the husband decides he wants to romance his wife and turn it into a real marriage,the heroine was very young when they initially got married so he let her be.that's all i can remember, has anybody read this book? or heard of it?


December #9
I read this book a long time ago so my details are a bit sketchy. The hero is a pirate/privateer who somehow ends up meeting the heroine. She doesn't know he's a pirate. Something goes wrong between then and she starts impersonating him(as a pirate) not knowing that its him. One of then ends up captured and almost executed for piracy and the other has to rescue them and they live happily ever after. I know this isn't the best description but this was a long time ago and i was pretty young at the time.Also remember the book binding was mostly colored black.Hope you can help.


December #10
I read a book about 10 years ago and it was the first Harlequin Romance novel I ever read. I have been looking for it for quite a while now but just cannot remember what is was called or who wrote it. It was about a woman who had a job as a courier or something. She had to deliver a package to a man and when she got there she was kidnapped by the man because he thought she was associated with a man who was blackmailing his sister. I don't remember much more about it, but I keep thinking that the name Darcy was on the book cover, don't know if it was in the title or the author.


December #12
I'm looking for the title of a book. I believe it was a silhouette desire because it had pretty frequent sex scenes. It had a columnist who lived in San Francisco who writes about her life in her daily column. She sees guy at restaurant she always goes to and writes about him. He ends up talking to her-she wants to keep the mystery so she calls him "Sam". He takes her to Vegas, and a friends's house someplace on the coast. She falls for him and dumps him, only to write that she loves him in the column for the paper. They reunite at the restaurant with avid readers of the column watching. Any ideas?


December #14
My sister and I are avid romance readers and we have shared frequently over the years. We always bring up the 'good ones' and enjoy recaping. There is one in particular that we read about 6 years ago and it was wonderful and funny. However, the only 2 characters we remember are the girl named Peaches and her pet monkey. Now this has to be the only story line out there like this. Someone please rememeber the title and/or author please.


December #15
A bit garbled and confused but I'll try. Heroine is trying to cut down a tree and it falls on her. She's rescued by Hero who comes looking for her. Thanks for helping (if you can!)


December #16
Read it in the mid to late 80's. It was a modern day romance and was definitely over 200 pages. It's about a divorced woman who decides to explore the Galapagos Islands after seeing an ad in a magazine. She ends up falling in love with her tour guide. I vaguely remember some sort of weather-related turmoil as well. It was definitely a major publisher. Help is appreciated!


December #21
A few (probably more than a few) years ago I read a Christmas story about a couple who lived I think, in New York and were taking a trip to her sisters for the holiday. On the way they were involved in a car wreck - I think they got hit by a train. They died and went to heaven but could not get into the pearly gates unless they finished up three tasks before Christmas. This is all supposed to take place on Christmas Eve. I think it came out in a small hardback and I have not been able to find it since we moved two years ago, and believe me I have been looking! At the end of the story, they had completed their tasks and were allowed to live and finish out their lives. It was a wonderful story and I'm thinking that maybe Heather Graham wrote it, but it could have been Nora Roberts, just don't remember. I do remember a couple of the tasks they had to complete - one was guiding a woman on her journey (maybe a nun) through death and something to do with a blind woman and her husband? Thank you for any help you can give me.


December #22
i am looking for a Harlequin book,i don't know whats it called or who wrote it,i just have vague details since i read this book about 15 years ago,(1993 or before book), details are the hero and heroine are a married couple with a 6 or 7 year old boy,they got married for some other reason besides love ,i can't remember how they got a kid,mainly they have both been leading separate lives since they have a multiple homes around the world,they are never together at the same time in the same place,until the husband decides he wants to romance his wife and turn it into a real marriage,the heroine was very young when they initially got married so he let her be.that's all i can remember, has anybody read this book? or heard of it?


December #24
I'd like to know the Title & the Author for a mills & boon / harlequin paperback I read possibly in late '80s. The girl has recently moved from another place to get away from memories of her fiance's death. She has premonitions. The guy is (perhaps) a retired soldier & her neighbour. She once held off a mugger by picking off fighting skills from his thoughts. There's one scene, where they have an argument, with each finishing off the others' sentences. The ending has the girl hit by a car & becoming wheelchair-bound & the guy becomes a writer. But, they are supposedly happily married. Does anyone know this story?


October #13
I read a book about 12 years ago which I belive was set in England. All I remember from the book is a lady running away on her wedding day. She escaped by climbing out the window and swinging down a tree in her wedding dress. She then climbed into the trunk of a carriage that took her to a different estate. I want to say she got a job there. The gentleman was aroused by her and one scene involved them getting intimate by a stream, possibly after she was thrown from a horse. Any help would be great!!


October #23
Hi, I'm trying to find a title to a book I read about 10 years ago, probably '95-'97. The book is about a young female that is taken captive by an Indian warrior. She's petite and feistly, he's big and stoic, they hate each other, she tries to escape a bunch of times, etc. She might be the daughter of a soldier, because search parties come after her. She's "rescued" long after she's fallen for the Indian warrior, maybe even "married" in a Indian marriage ceremony. (Something to do with an animal hide?) I think the cover was mostly a teal color with feathers and had an inside photo of the warrior and the woman. Can anyone help?




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