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I can do better! Anyway, in the interests of thoroughly embarrassing myself in public, and in the hope that some of you will join me and post your own attempts, here's what I wrote, with the editor's response said below that. She'd been authorised to spend up to a ceiling of two million on behalf of the ageing banker she was working for, but it was still unfeasibly hard to contemplate the magnitude of the heights the auction had now reached, particularly, she thought as she attempted to hold her nerve, given her own precarious financial situation. Sinking back into her seat, she realised the rest of the room was staring at her, and belatedly remembered the instructions she'd been given by her father: So much for cool.

She could already feel the hot flush creeping up her neck and knew her cheeks would shortly be a shade of pink which would clash in the worst kind of way with her red curls, which, in honour of today's outing, she'd been very strict with that morning and forced back into a sleek chignon. Well, as sleek as possible, she amended, as her hand, creeping up to check it was still in place, found a mass of escaping locks. The Christie's auctioneer took a step towards the flamboyant Renoir painting he was sharing the stage with.

Can I hear two million for this glorious piece of art? Kate peered as surreptitiously as she could around the room, craning her neck to see her fellow bidders, but the woman who'd raised the stakes to a million was now looking disinterested, fanning her perspiring face with her catalogue. The deep voice sounded bored. Gripping the back of her chair to steady herself, Kate heard as if from a distance the rapping of the gavel as the painting was sold. This was bad, really bad. Not only did the loss of the Renoir mean that Mr Belport was almost certain to withdraw his future business from her father's art dealership, but it also meant that they weren't going to make the substantial commission they'd been counting on from this particular transaction.

She was roused by the perspiring woman who had also missed out on the painting as she bustled past, waving her catalogue in greeting. Kate grimaced to herself as she realised who her rival had been. Dec 16, , 5: For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten.

Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, murky waters of Ravenwood Pond. Others whispered of foul play and the devil's wrath. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring is about to become Ravenwood's new bride. Drawn to his masculine strength and the glitter of desire that burned in his emerald eyes, the tawny-haired lass had her own reasons for agreeing to a marriage of convenience. One was vengeance, and in its pursuit she would entangle Julian in a blackmail plot, a duel at dawn, and a dangerous masquerade. The other reason was dearer to her heart, but just as wild a quest: Sophy Dorring intended to teach the devil to love again.

Ravenwood was the damn name that for the life of me I could not think of. And how on earth did I forget my favorite character's name; Sophy.. I am looking for book I think was published in the 80's. I read it 12 years ago, but it was my moms who had had it for a while. It was set in the Victorian era I think, the main characters had separate rooms.

I only remember the beginning. The girl was running from something and ends up climbing through the window of an inn and falling asleep on the bed. The man has purchased the room for the night. When he enters he thinks she is a gift from someone he was talking with while having his dinner. She allows him to touch her because she thinks she is dreaming. They are discovered before much happens, but he is told he must marry her and agrees. Beyond that the only other thing I remember is he has a nickname that came from his battle experience and he has a sister or sister in law that is a main supporting character of the story.

And if I remember correctly he gambles I think the title had midnight in it, but I'm not sure of that. Hello one and all, I have been looking for a book for the past 3 months and cannot find it whatsoever. It's a historical romance about a girl who went unwillingly with her friend to a witch like woman's house to get a talisman for her friend to catch this Duke or count of her dreams.

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Now the witch lady tells the unwilling friend to place her finger on the talisman an she pricks her finger on it. Then the witch or sorceress gives instructions to the willing friend. But the willing friend doesn't want to hold it an tells the unwilling friend to give it to her at some ball they were both supposed to attend.

When the willing friend sees the man she wants she runs off to freshen up. While the unwilling friend walks to the balcony to get fresh air. The guy sees her go alone, follows her an sees her take the talisman out and is instantly curious he wants to see it closely but she tries to hide it again, they struggle with it an both of them touch it resulting in her losing her virginity that night.

I also remember him being from another land because he has a mishap with her pernounciation of salt in his language. If anyone has any clue please help. Google and Amazon are giving me runaround! The book starts with the heroine throwing clothes and other items out the hotel window because she thought her friend ripped her off.

She was working on a history textbook and had just gotten a deal that she thought he hijacked he didn't. In the meanwhile, the heroine drives to her new job arriving a few days early and in the rain where she falls for her boss. He owns some sort of training facility that teaches medieval fighting and such and she's employed to teach them about the history and assist in weapons preparation. This book should be contemporary romance. I also remember that at one point the heroine almost drove through the hero's wooden gates because they were locked and she wanted to leave hastily.

Any information is appreciated as I read it in and have been looking for it since. Looking for a romance novel that it is set in the U. A man puts out an ad looking for a woman not sure if he was searching for a bride who has had at least one child proof that she is not barren as he wishes to sire an heir.

I think this ad was placed in New York. The woman he chooses deceives him into thinking that she is a widow and he believes her little sister is actually her daughter. The ad promised lots of money and she and her sister were in desperate need. Once they get on a train to head west to his ranch in Wyoming or some such state, he finds out in his privately owned car his new lady was not experienced as he had thought. I do remember that the train had to stop for buffalo or bison crossing. I'm looking for a book a read a long time ago.

I believe it is a Harlequin romance.

It's about this girl and her neighbor who appears to be a womanizer. I think he volunteers to give her dating pointers or something, but she doesn't think he can concentrate on just one woman. I can't remember how it ends, but I know they have the same last name. Any tidbits would be appreciated. I'm looking for a book I read ears ago. Woman wakes up next to a stranger with a new face because he wants to get his wifes family off his back over his wifes disappearance.

The mother is crazy about removing every hair from her body and her brother knows it's not the real wife because the woman is too nice. Turns out she is an illegitimate child of the mother. I just joined because I've been wracking my brain, and slogging through the internet, but I cannot remember what this book was. Lords and ladies and corsets and whatnot. I think there may have been some themes of control or dominance, but it wasn't over the top. Looking to see if anyone can help me find the title or author for a book I read about 20 years ago.

It's been going around in my head for days and is driving me a little crazy. Futuristic Earth where there is timed showers and sidewalk excaltors. A woman is deported from Earth for going to a "gov't rebellion" meeting 1 time to a colony established on another planet. She is transported on a spaceship where she is told she will have to marry as soon as she lands or become a lover of one of the male settlers for housing.

On the spaceship, she learns some self-defense from the one guy she interacts with a lot. As they land on the planet, she picks the guy she spent most of her time with to marry even though she doesn't know he can turn her down since he was the first born on this planet and it gives him certain privileges.

They marry one the first day she is on the planet and then he takes her home. Please let me know if anyone can think of the title or even author. Jan 11, , 6: Just joined the group and am hoping someone can help me!

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I must have read this book around 15 years ago, so it's at least as old as that, if not more. It's set in "the olden days". The heroine lives in a cabin the forest, I think with her father and maybe an aunt-type person? She's quite young, very headstrong and gets into trouble a lot. One night I think she is trying to run away and comes across a man in the bushes - I can't really remember why he is there he may be a thief. Anyway, she convinces him to let her go with him wherever he is going - I think he eventually agrees to take her as far as a city.

On the way they get ambushed; she is sold to a house where she becomes a slave I remember something about her cleaning the house, I think the person she works for is a doctor of some description. The hero is working in the mines. Something happens which allows her to escape, she also rescues the hero and they escape into the mountains.

He is badly injured so she nurses him back to health and they fall in love. Whilst they're on the mountain he teaches her to fish. He takes her back home and promises that he will come back for her. The hero does come back for her and it's happily ever after! Feb 29, , I'm looking for a Harlequin from the 's. I only recall the vaguest of details The hero is a military pilot and the story is about a son he didn't know existed, I think, there's definitely a young son in the story. The hero really likes Walt Whitman. I am looking for a historical romance, I believe set in America.

There are a group of four brothers that work the farm during the day and taken to highway robbery at night in order make ends meet. There is a girl working for them I think in the house and she discovers their secret. She and the oldest brother have developed a relationship and are in love. She begins riding out with them, against their wishes and they become quite sucessful. One night things go wrong, her love has been shot and she thinks he is dying, she gets captured and is blackmailed to remain with her captor to protect the brothers from prosecution. Hero and Heronie meet and of course things heat up when she refuses to leave with him.

Please help if you can, I hope I am remembering this correctly, but it was in the mid-nineties when I read it! It might have even been a part of a series, with this being the first book. Feb 3, , 7: Hey, I'm looking for a contemporary romance that I read about five maybe six years ago.

I don't have the best recollection of the names in the book the only thing I can really remember are a few scenes from the book. The main scene I remember is that the book starts out with the heroine who is really shy being afraid of her mom's boyfriend because he's a creepy drunk. One night I don't think her mom is there so the heroine locks her door so he doesn't get into her room. The boyfriend starts to knock on her door and instead of waiting around for him to do something the heroine sneaks out the window. She then runs over to the hero's house and she ends up losing her virginity to him.

They were both young and they both cared for each other. I think they somehow got separated at some point and don't see each other until later on in life when they are a tad bit older. Yet, I'm not entirely certain of this or how they got separated. I just know that the girl never did suffer any abuse from her mom's boyfriend and that there is a happily ever after between the hero and heroine. I did read this on my kindle when I had one so I don't know if there is a hard copy or not of this book. Any suggestions would be great please. I'm looking for a romance novel, I usually read Nora Roberts, Judith McNaught, Johnana Lindsey and others like them but can't remember who wrote this book.

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Lady is on vacation and meets a man who helps save a dog. She had taken migraine meds and ended up prego but does not tell him. She has a son and takes offer her family restaurant. The son is kidnapped and she turns to the guy to help pay for the ransom. I think he owns planes or likes flying planes and the son is found who looks just like him and he and the girl get married. Hi all, new here but really wanting to reread a book I read around 15 years ago. It probably from the early to mid 90's Historical Romance. The Heroin is named Margaret or Meg.

The hero is from a titled family but they have a genetic issue. They have club foot or hair lip children. The hero's father married several times but the hero is the only child born without a defect.

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All his other siblings and half siblings were killed soon after birth by his father. The heroin was a ward of their family and was a blonde girl when the hero left the home. Years later he meets her again but she is now brunette and his father's widow. He doesn't know who she is at first. His father tried killing her and she fought back and killed him. The hero's uncle is determined to convict her for murder though. This is set in England I want to say 's but not sure on that.

The hero is also a highway man or similar- he rejected his family and hasn't contacted any of them since his mother's death. He only discovers that Meg, this woman he rescued bleeding and is in love with, is Margaret after his uncle convinced him to investigate his father's "murder". His uncle has a club foot. I want to say at one point they are in newgate prison towards the beginning. Meg had a baby and that is how the story begins.

The hero's father sees the newborn is disfigured and kills him and then turns to kill Meg. If anyone knows this novel please let me know. Thanks Cp Decided to repost this here as it seems more active-been looking for months now. This is by Judith McNaught. I think it is Every Breath You Take but it might be one of her other contemporaries. Hi I'm new to this website. I'm looking for a young adult romance book about a girl that lives next door to a childhood friend. She was already friends with a boy and he later is killed.

At first the girl and her new neighbor hate each other. Then they fall in love. He is then sent away to a military school or something after the girl is almost raped by one of her moms boyfriends. While he's away the girl is tricked by his did and he rapes her and tied her up. The boys mom is in a wheelchair. After she reports it she moves away and she works in a tattoo shop. Her boyfriend is a drug dealer or something and he's plotting to kill her. He hires the guy that was her childhood friend who is an undercover cop to kill her. Then they end up together. The author apparently based it off of actual events that happened to her.

This was a great book and I have no clue what it's called or who wrote it. Can anyone help me? Mar 11, , 9: Book 1 The heroine was "dumped" by her husband after he came home to find her totally out of it in their bed room and everything seemed like she had been entertaining a lover as there were champagne glasses, the bed was messed up etc. I think it was the hero's brother or cousin or something like that who informed and also who'd set up the charade the husband to come home. The hero took their child I think it's a young boy with him to Italy or Greece maybe?

Then he's totally surprised because opposite to what he's been told by his brother, the heroine is a really good and caring mother etc. I found out the title of book 1! I'm leaving this here for others who might eventually look for the book but not remember the title or author. Another book I'm looking for this: But he wants her to act horribly so that his family will be glad, if he breaks it up and stays solo instead of having such an awful woman.

I believe the books were published somewhen between and The first one had lots of red on the cover, if I'm not wrong. Both were not historical romances and I think they both involved foreign guy heros from Italy, Greece or Spain or something like that. An arranged marriage, guy was rough, heroine was young and beautiful I believe from the states. The h's mother advised her to never show passion in marital bed. I remember a scene after the consummation of the wedding, she cries and H smashes a glass.

Think they were traveling on a train. The book had a happy ending. This sounds like it's Dark of the Moon by Karen Robards. It's not set in America, but the other details sound right. I want to find this book I once saw in the library some 5 years ago, can't remember the title only the synopsis. It was set in the Americas where the heroine was a slave or a prisoner of some sort of the Native Americans. Anyways I think she was captured at a young age because she didn't know a word of English. Maybe The hero bought her and then he married her. He consummated the marriage and took her to England and brought her in front of his father as a way of exacting revenge by not marrying someone of noble blood.

And then he left England, meanwhile the hero's father took pity and trained his daughter in law on the ways of being a lady. The hero then returns some years later and finds a different women i the form of his wife and he also ones out that he has twins. If anyone has any idea about this book please do let me know. I am so despite to find this one book I have looked for years for. I read it once at the library when I was a teenager and can't find it. I only remember the story. The girl is a train robber in a gang made up of her family. She get caught by the sheriff who brings her in not knowing she is a woman because she always dressed like a young man.

When he finds out he is a she, he know he can not punish her for the crimes with a hanging. So he brings her home and ends up sleeping with her.

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He feels so guilty that he slept with her when she was under his protection he need to marry her to make it right. But she refuses so he forced her with a shotgun wedding. As she becomes more and more part of the community she falls in love with her husband. But Thrn one of her brothers is caught I think because they were attempting to save her and he faces being hung for his crimes.

Her loyalties are torn between her new husband who she is starting to fall for and her family who she loves. Please this book was so good and I love to re read my favorite books. It has haunted me for a long while. Mar 20, , 9: I'm hoping someone can please help?!?! It's about a guy who is in a relationship with a woman who he thinks is well experienced in playing around, not true she is love with him, but gives him what she thinks he wants, ie a mistress rather than permanency. Any help at all with this will be greatly appreciated! Ryan married Venetia's cousin Elizabeth: Her response to him was frightening Venetia had felt desire before.

Such a disastrous marriage that she felt she wanted never to experience desire again. And she hadn't--until now.

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Ryan Fraine, famous documentary filmmaker, was in New Zealand to set up a new television station. From the moment they met, Venetia, herself a TV reporter, knew this man could make her suffer as she never had before. So she shied away from his blazing sensuality. Yet there was something else, something in the very core of her soul that wouldn't permit escape Mar 27, , I really hope someone here can help me find this book, I've been hunting for nearly 10 years! I don't know the title or author, but the book was about a girl maybe 17? In the book her parents hate the husband, and her mom is always telling her how horrible married life is, and how awful sex will be.

The husband is a sailor, I think he was a captain. At one point in the book the girl sets a fire in the cabin because she thinks the grates are for a fireplace. It is a romantic novel. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I read a trilogy last year and i can't remember its name or the name of the first book.

I would be really grateful if someone helps me to find the name of the book trilogy or the name of the author. The book starts with the heroine meeting again with the hero after years he was in prison during this time. He thinks that she is guilty for putting him in jail and wants to get even. They sleep together the heroine was a virgin ,then he acts vengeful to her and leaves her ashamed. Later she realises that is pregnant and contacts the hero.

He strongly refuses to recognise the child but deep down knows that is his child. Now he is engaged to another woman but neither of them love each other. Heroine gives birth to a healthy boy into the hero's house with the support of his mother and fiancee. She asks him if he wants to know the child but he strongly refuses and ejects her and the boy out his house. In the second book he tries to reconnect with his son and the heroine and the story goes on. Thank you for your attention!

I am so happy to find this! I am looking for the title of this historical regency romance novel that has been driving me insane for a year!!!! Heroine loves Hero since she was a small girl. Hero is Heroines' brother's BF. Hero visits Heroine's brother's home. Heroine walks into Hero's room and he was undressed. He was expecting a courtesan paying him a visit, instead walks in the Heroine. That is all I remembered. Looking for a book but can only remember part of the ending a woman was kidnaped by a man who thought he loved her and told her as soon as she delivered the baby she was carrying he was going to sell it to a nice couple he had already located then he was going to impregnate her and they would have many babies together un beknown to him she had already started labour and refused to show it to give her husband she loved time to find them.

I think i remember something about a black market baby selling scheme. I am posting this everywhere so i can find it. Hey, I have this novel that I loved so much when I was younger. The cover was dark from what I recall. It started out talking about how cold it was and describing the setting in the middle of the night. Then the next thing I remember is the main female character and the main guy are on their way to her place to grab some of her stuff and her little brother so she can run away with him on a train to somewhere o believe in Russia.

He ended up taking her virginity on the train. She stays with him with her brother. He calls her "Dushka. Her captures gave her something to make her all lethargic and compliant to what they did. But her guy had come in time. But he had to watch them tease her but in the end somehow got her back. From what I perceived trains were still a new thing so this has to be set back over a hundred years. Setting is in California vineyards. She got jilted by him because her dad asked him to. He's now wealthy, she now owns her family's vineyard but she thinks she will have to sell it.

They reminisce about the past; nights where she would sneak up to his sleeping spot and they would make love. It's a short novel, contemporary. I remember the author describing her in her red sweater and pants. Hi everyone, new to this site and this group. Hope someone can help. Not sure when it was published. Maybe the 90's or 's. The story is about 2 researchers at boston mass gen maybe? And the girl, a prodigy, is researching genetic diseases as her college friend died from one.. Some one is trying to kill the girl and the guy steps in to help her out.

There is a mystery involved, incest and secret parentage.. I basically remember the whole story except the name of the book or the characters.. Hi, please I've been looking for this book for a couple of years now. It is a contemporary romance novel. I read it a long time ago but have no idea who wrote the book or what the characters name are. I originally got it as a free book on Kindle. It's about a year rich heiress who persuades her male friend to become the star of a reality dating show in which she is somehow involve in maybe produces? By chance, she is forced to become a contestant on the show.

I believe the guy already had a crush on her. She goes on to being in the final two with another woman who is nice and has a daughter but is still with her ex-boyfriend. The guy ends up choosing her and proposes to her and she accepts on autopilot because she believes she was his only choice since the other girls were useless.

But the guy had actually fallen in love with her. But then I think that she gets kidnapped after they get off the show. But then the novel has a HEA. It's possible that the girl might have been a redhead Any ideas or suggestions will be much appreciated.



Apr 28, , Looking for a regency romance trilogy book. It's about a child left at the three gentlemen's residency with only a note that says the child's father lives there. The three gentlemen then look for their past lovers whom they thought could be the child's mother. It was on the third book that the real father's identity was revealed. I remember a scene where the Hero at the third book locked up the heroine at the attic of the house or something like that.

Apr 29, , 7: I read this excerpt some years ago at the back of a book and have been searching unsuccessfully to find the full romance book given that i dont remember the name of the excerpt. It was about a highland warrior presumed slain during war by his family but who had actually been injured in the war and imprisoned by the enemy. A mysterious veiled woman comes to the prison to look for a 'lover' to service her. The warrior hopes this time she would choose him as that would get him over the prison walls and give him a chance to escape. She does choose him and he awakens in a room to plot his escape.

Meanwhile when the woman comes to him he realises that she seems afraid of him and is almost as much of a prisoner as he is. All this happens in the first chapter or so. Any help finding the book would be appreciated as this has been driving me crazy! May 7, , She runs away and ends up at a brothel. While there she catches the eye of a duke. She gets trained in the art of lovemaking so her family can leave her alone. It has 2 brothers in it that are boxers who protect her, one ends up fallingin love with her. Just can't think of the name.

May 10, , 6: Looking for a historical romance that I read over 20 years ago. Starts out with the woman giving birth to a still born baby that was conceived as a result of a cousin's raping her. She joins up with a caravan of travelers who are going west to settle. There is a couple and the woman gives birth and is very frail and ends up dying. The grieving father cannot console the baby and the woman the heroine nurses the baby and is able to care for him. After a while they fall in love but the cousin eventually finds the woman and tries to kill her but the hero saves the day big surprise there.

Any ideas would be appreciated. May 17, , 3: Julie Garwood was the name that came to mind but I couldn't find a similar book by her. Hope it's a match. D Hi guys, I need some help. I'm looking for a title of this awesome time travelling-ish book. I'll list the parts I remember. A girl visits her friend at this huge mansion that has this old timey theme 2. Her friend's maid or butler or gardener looks at her rather strangely 3. Her friend brought her to see the large garden at the back.. At night she went down and was sort pulled towards the garden 5.

A huge storm happened and she passed out? She was in the early 's when electricity wasn't quite big or not invented yet 7. Her digital watch is still working though 8. Does anyone know the name of this book? Hoping someone, anyone could help me find the title of this book I've been looking for. Anyway the gist of what I can remember is that this couple are on their way to a wedding or are already there.

The guy knows the bride I think they're both doctors? I just know they're of the same profession , but is in a supposed committed relationship with his girlfriend who's sitting next to him. Basically, the bride runs off with the guy after someone stops the wedding I think it was the guy? I think it's not long after that when the groom is pissed and wants to go after the runaway couple.

He runs into the left-behind girlfriend who informs him that they probably went somewhere can't remember and she requests the groom to give her ex-beau a hell of a punch on her behalf. And that's all I can remember! It's contemporary and I probably saw it about a year or two ago. Can't be older than that, I think? Amazon Media EU S. Customers who bought this item also bought.

Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. The Sheikh's Untamed Bride: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 9 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This is a re-release of three previous publications of HB namely The forgotten husband, The marriage arrangement and The husband test. If you are a fan of HB or have read her books you will know that they are formulaic and may seem repetitive and predictable. This is because she has a standard formula for almost all her novels: Her heroes are chivalrous and often more demonstrative with their actions than verbally acknowledge the love they have for their partners.

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Sometimes the men employ high handedness and cave man tactics to effect a reconciliation. So if you don't know this sometime you will find her books annoying, repetitive and predictable. Despite the standard formula, the plotlines vary and the setting although somewhere in Australia also varies.

This same formula applied to all the three books in this series with a running theme of marriage of convenience. In the forgotten husband, the heroine is forced through circumstances to marry the Hero and subsequently the circumstance that brought about their union changed and she did a runner. However fate dealt her a blow while on route to her hideaway with an unforeseen car accident that left her with a memory loss. The hero , seized the opportunity to court and woo her in order to build a better relationship than the one they had previously.

His actions showed the depth of his affection, but once the heroine regains her memory, we go back to square one with distrust, jealousy and insecurity until of course she is able to work out that her husband loves her. The 2nd book is the marriage arrangement , I think this was my favourite. Both hero and heroine where well matched. The heroine believed they married for the sake of uniting their powerful families and consolidating their wealth, but the Hero knew otherwise and while they lived a life of mutual respect, honesty and trust, they never voiced the L- word.

Until a french model flies into town and set her sights on the hero. The hero did nothing to encourage her and despite his efforts to protect the heroine and show his affection she was insecure and doubtful that he would not succumb. Full marks to her for fighting for her man, but she then realised that what they have is not enough if there is no love.