‘Tis Friday, and therefore, ‘tis personal ad challenge day. Today’s is going to be a bit different: I want the hero’s name, instead of the heroine. So, the magic combination today is:
Title + Author + Hero’s Name = TOTALLY FUCKIN’ AWESOME TITLE FOR YOU.
Shy, bookish man, much more comfortable with dead Greek philosophers than live English debutantes, seeks quiet, meek girl willing to listen for hours about assorted obscure subjects. Am not at all looking for a beautiful, hot-tempered larcenous female intent on carrying out all sorts of hair-raising schemes revolving around her scandalous father’s memoirs. No, really. Not interested in dark snapping eyes, masses of curly hair or a figure that would make the gods weep, especially not attached to a female who is, for whatever mysterious reason, not averse to stolen kisses from me. Seriously.
OK, I so know this one—have the book in front of me even as I type—but I’m going to be good and not say because I already have a title.
Graciously,
Duchess Twitterpants
C’mon, already, fer cryin’ out loud, someone else say it otherwise I won’t be able to control myself!
Not so graciously,
Duchess Twitterpants (who would look really spiffy with another title—liked matched bookends)
IT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS!!!
Aaaaargh! You people are driving me crazy!!
*sigh*
Hey, I know this one. Off the top of my own sweet head
The Devil’s Delilah by Loretta Chase. Hero: Jack Langdon
YES! THANK YOU JESUS!
Oh.
I guess the Bitches need to agree with you first. But that’s got to be the answer. Either that, or Chase is going to be entitled to go all medieval on someone who stole her story.
Yeah, it’s one of my favorites too… though I gave my copy to a friend in some misguided purge a few years ago.
I would soooo answer a personals ad from JL.
YES! DebL is our latest winnah!
Coronation ceremony to be held when I get home tonight. Congratulations, DebL.
And Darlene: This is one of my favorite books, too. Jack Langdon. Oh sighsighsigh. A nerd hero done RIGHT. I would so pounce on him and make him Aeneas to my Dido, except without the freaky shit involving curses and funeral pyres and stabbing myself in the chest.
Candy—Next to Kinsale’s Merlin, Jack’s the nerd Regency character who sets the standard. He was also adorable in The Vagabond Viscount and I recommend reading that first before Delilah. Fortunately, they’re together in a Signet double.
And isn’t Delilah’s dad hot, hot, hot? Talk about your dark and dangerous not completely reformed rakes! Woo!
>>I would so pounce on him and make him Aeneas to my Dido, except without the freaky shit involving curses and funeral pyres and stabbing myself in the chest.<<
*Snrk* That’s what I love about this place. Most other sites would have used a Britney-and-Kevin reference.
Eeeee! So very excited to be joining the ranks of the titled. I will now have secret sense of superiority when I am forced to say “milord” and “milady” to fake Court of Appeal Justices during Law school exercises in which I argue fake cases as a fake lawyer.
But seriously… I think I’d throw Jack Langdon out of bed for Basil Trevelyan (on second thought). Because Loretta Chase does bad-boy Regency heroes even better than she does nerdy ones.
Oh hey, I have that Signet double, but only read the Viscount’s Vagabond.
Oh, Nicole, do read The Devil’s Delilah. If you liked Jack in Vagabond you’re going to love him in Delilah, when he finds exactly the right woman to shake his world down to its foundations. Lots of fun, and frankly, a more memorable story than Vagabond.