From very alert reader Cora comes this bit of HILARITY. This month’s Mills & Boon Newsletter highlights some of their recommended titles, including Kathleen O’Reilly’s Sex, Straight Up, which is being released by M&B as Intoxicating!
That’s all well and drunken fun but… what’s this? Looks like The Virgin Secretary’s Impossible Boss got a whole new workplace problem.
OMG VIRGIN LESBIAN CATEGORY ROMANCE. WHY didn’t I think of THAT?!
OMFG, Mistry89, that’s the exact book! You astound me! Imagine being able to find the book based on the single scene I remembered.
@SonomaLass:
That’s it, thanks. I loved Sebastian. Truthfully, I don’t remember the stories they were in (the main couple in each book) but him as the gardener really sticks with me. I haven’t read the last book in that quartet, so it must have finished off Esme and Sebastian in the 3rd book.
Thanks so much!
Oooh, that one! Didn’t he buy her apartment building and practically stalk her in it? And I seem to remember him being one of the “You wanted my punishing kisses, whether you knew it or not!” types, which confused me once I found out that he was a virgin.
@Suze
You described it really clearly (usually I have these “Oh, it is at the tip of my tongue” moments).
@Lynz
That’s it! He is very much an alpha male – just ended up waiting (the attempted seduction thing messed with his adolescent mind and then bull-headedness set in, IIRC) until he found The One.
I should re-read it (although I seem to have retained a fair amount of the story *g*) as I’m fairly sure he gets all “over-come” in the lift ….
Late to the party (as usual), but one of Lavyrle Spencer’s books had a virgin hero. I don’t remember the name of the book, but the hero was an immigrant from Sweden and the heroine was his mail-order bride who had sold her virginity to a man back east to get the money to travel out west and become a bride. She really wasn’t much more experienced that he was, but she was no longer a virgin.
Oh, there’s also Anna Campbell’s Untouched. (heh)
The heroine’s a widow, but still really isn’t all that experienced. Because if you can’t make your widow a virgin, you’ve gotta make sure she’s never had an orgasm. *sigh*
There’s Barbara Metzger’s book Snowdrops and Scandalbroth, with a virgin hero (and heroine). Haven’t read it for a long time, but it was funny, and he had a good reason for being a virgin still.
thanks for the Wild at heart cite…raised by wolves? I have to find this!
I think it’s a little 20th century to automatically assume a secretary is a woman.
On the other hand that wonderful “reviewer” Harriet Klausner has written an absolutely delightful Amazon “review” of Pitch Black:
Alas, poor Harriet may have confused some readers into assuming Pitch Black is a different type of romantic suspense.
Leslie Parrish graciously pointed out the mistake in the comments. I’m glad she wasn’t too hard on poor old Harriet. When you “speed read” your way through a book, you’re bound to make a few minor mistakes, such as mixing up the gender of the male lead.
It was The Endearment. Our hero also had to deal with the fact she couldn’t cook, keep house, look after animals or do anything that a prairie bride would need to do. She also had a younger brother with her, which meant another mouth to feed, etc. and could definitely get in the way of a wedding night in a one-room sod-house.
One can’t help but think these things should have been far greater liabilities than lack of virginity, so after the first reading I found the the book pretty annoying, but I recall some pretty good descriptions of prairie life in that era.