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HaBO: Heroine Uses Inheritance to Start Art Studio

This HaBO request is from Alexis, who is looking for a contemporary romance with sisters:

I would be ever so grateful if you and the Bitchery could help me find a book that I’ve racked my brains about and done all the googling I can think of. It’s a contemporary romance that features two sisters: the older sister who has everything together (who might work in a field like accounting) and the younger sister who is a wannabe actress and DOES NOT have it together.

The older sister is the main protagonist and she’s also the apple of her father’s eye, which causes the younger sister to be very jealous. Then one day the older sister learns of an inheritance from her (surpise!) real birth father. She uses the money to start some sort of artistic related studio in a warehouse. All I can remember about the hero is that he rides a motorcycle.

By the end of the book the heroine learns for sure that her father is not her father and when the man who raised her finds out, he essentially abandons her. Luckily she’s found true love to keep her company by then.

I’m very interested in this hero…

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  1. Olivia says:

    I feel like this might have been another HaBO or a sale book that started a discussion?? Possibly about sisters in Florida (?), that readers kinda hated the heroine…except I’m thinking she might have inherited a bar? So probably not the book…

  2. Lostshadows says:

    I don’t know the book, but I seriously hate her “dad” and possibly the author*. You raised her. She was the apple of your eye. And you just abandoned her when you found out she wasn’t a blood relative? WTF is wrong with you?

    *Without knowing how they handled it, I can’t say for certain, but the whole blood=real family! thing is rarely handled well. (My cousin was adopted. He’s still family.)

  3. chacha1 says:

    That sounds like the kind of plot I call “conflict soup.”

  4. Susan says:

    @Olivia–I think that was a different book. I can’t remember all the details (surprise, surprise) but think an old guy died and left the bar to a younger friend named Jake (?) who was a recovering alcoholic. The waitress/bartender thought her mother may have hooked up with the dead guy at some point, and that she might be the dead guy’s daughter, so she was planning to contest the will so she could inherit it. Plus, she figured she deserved it since she’d been working there for so long. Or something like that. Frankly, everyone in that book sounded like toe rags so I don’t remember specifics, only how pissed the synopsis made me.

    tl;dr–different book.

  5. Silver James says:

    While this is NOT the HaBO, a book with a slightly similar plot line to what @Susan described is Roxanne St. Claire’s BAREFOOT AT MIDNIGHT. Older hero (silver fox) is a chef, former mentor leaves him a dive bar in Barefoot Bay, which he wants to turn into a restaurant. Biological daughter shows up and wants to turn the place into a yoga studio. Sparks and romance ensue. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXWY5OW

    I hope someone figures out the HaBO because I’m all over a motorcycle riding hero!

  6. Susan says:

    @Silver James–that’s the book I was thinking of! Glad someone else’s memory is better than mine.

    Here’s the review that set me off:
    http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/barefoot-midnight-roxanne-st-claire/

    Apologies to the OP as this doesn’t help identify the book she’s actually looking for.

  7. LB says:

    This is ringing so many bells for me but I can’t pin down just one book that ticks all the boxes.

    At the end of Room at the Inn by Ruthie Knox they are fixing up an old factory that the heroine ends up owning somehow (maybe she inherits it, I don’t remember) and turning the space into artist lofts. The heroine is an innkeeper.

    Then there’s Crazy In Love and Wish You Were Here by Lani Diane Rich, which feature sisters, one of whom is a failed actress who can’t keep a job, and the other is very serious and works for their father in real estate development. The failed actress is sent to run an inn that the family have inherited; and in the other book, the serious sister is sent to try to buy a campground. Their father is a really horrible person.

    I don’t think anyone rides a motorcycle in any of these, though. Which is odd, given how popular motorcycles seem to be for romance heroes.

    Also, I had not realized quite how many books I’ve read where the heroine runs an inn that she may or may not have inherited, but it turns out to be a lot.

  8. Jen says:

    Could it possibly be Between the Sheets by Molly O’Keefe?

  9. Gloriamarie says:

    cuious

  10. Alexis says:

    Thanks for trying! So far none of these books are the one I’m looking for, but I’ll keep hope alive. I *think* the heroine may have made jewelry.

    And sorry for the spoiler about the birth dad. He was awful! If it helps, he doesn’t reveal his douchery until the absolute end of the book so you don’t actually spend too much time thinking of him during the romance.

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