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This HaBO comes from Lauren, who is searching for a book she read about a decade ago:
This is a long shot, but I read this book at least 10 years ago.
It was a story about a girl who comes from a rich family and is trying to prove herself to her dad or maybe just get out from under his influence. She gets into a car accident and either actually gets amnesia or fakes it. She goes to live in a small town and tries to support herself.
There is a hunky carpenter/handyman in the town and they fall in love, but it’s complicated by the fact that she isn’t who she says she is…
I think her name is either Jessica or Jessica is the name she goes by, but I could be wrong.
If she’s faking amnesia, that must take some serious commitment.
This probably isn’t it but that’s exactly the plot of this Christian romance book Secrets by Robin Jones Gunn. Except she falls for a paramedic, not a carpenter. http://bookshop.robingunn.com/collections/glenbrooke/products/secrets
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella has a similar plot. I was going to say “but it’s definitely not 10 years old, haha!” until I checked and whoomp there it is. I am getting old. But the heroine does’t have the same motivations, I think she was a lawyer who messed up big time at work.
Amnesia always makes me think Sandra Brown, but I can’t remember one that lines up.
I’d say it is An Heiress on his Doorstep by Teresa Southwick, but the guy she falls for is wealthy. She is faking the amnesia.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7086022-an-heiress-on-his-doorstep
I never know the answers to these but I read the Sandra Brown one and would like to read it again. Does anyone know the title?
Oh my god, Secrets is it! I had borrowed it from neighbors who are very religious and was pretty young at the time so I think the spiritual aspects were sort of lost on me. It hadn’t occurred to me that that would be an important point. This is unbelievable! I have been plagued by the memory of this book forever just wanting to know who is to blame for my amnesia (fake or real) trope obsession. Thank you so so much!