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This HaBO request is from Lynn, who is trying to find an older historical:
I’m trying to find a historical romance in paperback. My mom had it roughly around the 80’s-90’s. It was so excessive that I loved it.
The heroine was a mountain woman who lived alone. She saved the hero from a bear. The descriptions were awesome — I remember “bluer than a possum’s balls in a skiff of snow” and “colder than a witch’s tit”. The hero was a city feller, and I think she might have tried to make it in the city for him, but it’s been many years since I read this book.
I would love to find it, because it was crazy.
I am very interested in this heroine!
I don’t know the book, but I do know that the “descriptions” are known colloquial terms, so googling them probably won’t be of help.
Not a book, but this reminds me of the movie Continental Divide with Blair Brown and John Belushi…
Could it be The Barefoot Bride by Rebecca Paisley? It sounds like it.
I’d love to know the answer.
I’m with Mabel on the title.
“”The Barefoot Bride”is now on my Kindle. I believe that’s it. Thanks!
Sounds like it might be a Maggie Osborne or Pamela Morsi…they did some great “off the beaten path” western romances in the 80’s & 90’s.