You did it! We figured this one out! It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me for certain) that the Bitchery pretty much knows everything, and really, it's true. Scroll down to see the solution for this HaBO - and many thanks!
This HaBO request is from AJ, who is trying to find this book, though is fuzzy on the genre:
I really hope the Bitchery can help me on this one! I read a novel in the past 2 years. It is a Regency or contemporary setting, probably published post-2000. I have a tendency to find a Kindle book I want but it’s book 3 in a series. I then have to buy the whole series, so it might be slightly before that.
There isn’t too much I remember about this romance, but I do remember that the her and heroine flirted through unsolvable riddles/paradoxes. I don’t remember the genre specifically, but the hero pursues the heroine. The heroine loves him, but has to push him away because reasons.
The one paradox I distinctly remember is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immoveable object. At the height of the tension – spoiler alert – he “gives up” (I don’t think he actually did; I think he was just retreating to re-evaluate?) his pursuit of her and delivers this statement: “There is one other solution: the unstoppable force goes around the immoveable object.”
It contained all the angst!! Can you please help me remember the name/author of this novel?!
The riddle aspect seems more fitting for a Regency because these days, I don’t have the patient to flirt in riddles.
Is this Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas? I seem to remember the unstoppable and immoveable object. Lovely series.
I also remember the unstoppable force and immovable object from Married by Morning, though I think the line in that book is “The unstoppable force stops or the immovable object moves.” But the hero and heroine DEFINITELY use riddles as part of their courtship, or rather the hero does – “How many months have twenty eight days” and etc.
It’s definitely Married by Morning. I have the whole series on my Kindle and may have treated the whole thing as one really long and delightful book on more than one occasion.
Yep, Married By Morning. It’s my favorite of the Hathaway series!
Thank you so much! I knew you could solve it! That was so much easier than finding my keys this morning! I will now stop working and just read the book for the remainder of the day