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HaBO: Regency Heroine Kidnapped & Auctioned Off

This HaBO is from Rose. She wants to find a steamy historical romance (NSFW description, ahoy):

I’ve been looking for a book I read at least 5-10 years ago. I was hoping I may have been able to find this book without having to make a specific request, but alas I have had no luck. Here’s hoping someone will recognize this.

I’m pretty sure it was a regency style romance, and the hero was a viscount. There was a scene in the book where the heroine was I believe in a brothel (having been kidnapped and auctioned off or some such thing) and the hero is put in the position of not wanting to “take advantage of her,” but also having to fulfill some commitment from having bought her (maybe having to show proof of his conquest, blood on the sheets, etc). So he decides to use a dildo to pleasure the heroine. She may or may not have been tied. I’m fairly sure she did not realize who had bought her, although they were not strangers.

I think the book had blue on the cover (doesn’t help much and may be a false memory).

I thought it may be Tempting Fortune by Jo Beverley, but having found the scene after the auction, and that is definitely not the book I’m looking for.

I’m pretty positive that someone knows this one.

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  1. Karena says:

    Sounds like Johanna Lindsey’s Say You Love Me. But I could be wrong.

  2. Lizzy says:

    Wait, am I getting this right? He doesn’t want to rape her with his penis so he rapes her with a dildo? Because that’s better?! He couldn’t have just, I dunno, cut his finger or something?

  3. In Mary Balaogh’s Heartless, the *villain* does this to the heroine after he’s kidnapped her, so that he hasn’t personally raped her, but she is no longer (technically) a virgin. Close, but probably not close enough?

  4. OK, I am officially giving up on ever trying to use HTML for links on SBTB! The book is Heartless – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110299.Heartless

  5. Lostshadows says:

    Don’t know the book, but definitely not Say You Love Me.

    The heroine auctions herself off in that, then leaves the brothel with the hero. She is kidnapped later, but she doesn’t end up back in a brothel.

  6. trashymctrashbooks says:

    I’m pretty sure there’s a brothel auction in one of the Emperors of London series (Lynne Connolly), Rogue in Red Velvet. I’m not remembering a dildo tho… Maybe that knocks some other ideas loose?

  7. kitkat9000 says:

    I’ve read at least 2 books in the last year with brothel auction scenes and neither was this. Evidently, this scenario is more of a thing than I realized. Hunh.

  8. Gloriamarie says:

    @Georgie Wickham, Thanks for the link to Heartless.

    @Lizzy, I’m with you. There didn’t have to be any penetration of anything in order to get a spot of blood on the sheets. And presumably, she then falls in love with him. Didn’t we get sick of the rape to love scenario when Luke raped Laura in General Hospital?

  9. The Shocking Lord Standon by Louise Allen opens with a prim governess who is kidnapped and brought to a brothel and is rescued by an Earl but there is no dildo or ‘proving’ going on.
    The cover, however, is blue. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  10. Hopeful Puffin says:

    The Bride Sale by Candice Hern has a husband selling his wife because he can’t afford a divorce. She’s bought by a titles fella but I’ don’t think he was a viscount. No dildo. But totally angsty.

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