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HaBO: Swan on the Cover & Cucumber Cream in a Barn

This HaBO is from E.D., who has been searching for this book for at least a decade:

I’ve been looking for this book for over 10 years.

All I remember is:

  • The cover had a swan I think, not sure if it was part of the cover or a publishers logo.
  • I know the characters wore corsets and lace up petticoats, but I’m not sure about the time frame of the book just that it was set in the past. Pre-1900s I think.
  • The main character has freckles and at one point is using some sort of cucumber cream when she falls from the barn loft right in front of the main guy.
  • She’s kind of tomboyish, and the dress she’s wearing when she’s with the main guy to visit someone is too big for her. The person they visit points it out and says the dress is ugly, might have been yellow in color.
  • The guy is kind of mean/rude to her at first and sees her as a bother.
  • Something about horses. I think the guy rides them and she wants to, but since she’s a girl she isn’t allowed.
  • They end up in a compromising situation so they have to get married, but they were set up by his and her family.
  • After she thinks they have sex for the first time, she wonders why she isn’t walking funny, like she’s seen the mares do after they are mounted by a male.
  • She ends up pregnant, and they both are very in love.
  • Near the end, I think she’s sitting cross legged on the bed pregnant and naked with her long hair covering her breasts, and her husband thinks she’s beautiful.

That’s a lot of detail! Someone knows this book.

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  1. Hope says:

    Google Books is pointing me to The Valentine Legacy by Catherine Coulter – it even has the bit about the cucumber freckle potion

  2. Huh. This would be the book where CC gives an explanation for what happened to Roanoke Colony. Haven’t thought about The Valentine Legacy in years.

    Hope got it in one. You go, girl!

  3. MMVZ says:

    And the older editions have the swan on the cover as well

  4. MMVZ says:

    Got the wrong link and Would like to delete the link above but I can’t. Would you do it, pls at Smartbitchestrashybooks?

    Thanks

  5. Amanda says:

    @MMVZ: Link deleted!

  6. Gloriamarie says:

    Wow the Kindle version is expensive, at least to me, but hooray, it’s in my public library

  7. Sue says:

    How about After Innocence by Brenda Joyce? I read this and have it somewhere. She’s a shy artist, he’s a dick at first. If not this one, it sounds like Brenda Joyce; her earlier heroes tend to be jerk-ish at times to the heroine.

  8. Ellie says:

    Highly disappointed that cucumber cream is not, in fact, the euphemism that I thought it was.

  9. Olivia says:

    I also really wanted it to be an euphemism, and turned into a complete child and couldn’t stop giggling.

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