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Personal Ad Contest Time, Kids!
by Candy | June 03, 2006 | Saturday at 12:10 am | 13 CommentsAll right, my frisky little kittens! It’s Friday, and you know that this means
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another chance to win yourself a SWEET-ASS Smart Bitch aristocratic title. Yo. So: be the first to correctly guess the author’s name, book title and heroine’s full name, and yea, thou shalt be awarded richly—with pixels. And possibly anointed. With Essence of Fabio.
Heroine with superhuman patience seeks man to stretch it to the limit
Looking for the man I’ve been in love with ever since he kissed me when I was 16. Willing to put up with a lot of stuff and nonsense, up to and including flirting with your mistress in front of me, taking me to see a sex show and a near-death experience in a cemetery, but after that, you’re cut off, see? You want me back, you’re going to spend about a decent chunk of the book apologizing for your awful behavior and trying to win me back.
Filed: Guess That Lonely Heart!
Susan said on 06.03.06 at 01:22 AM
Is it Upon a Wicked Time by Karen Ranney? I seem to recall the storyline is similar.
Charity said on 06.03.06 at 01:38 AM
Is it Tessa Astley in Upon a Wicked Time by Karen Ranney?
Candy said on 06.03.06 at 02:28 AM
WOOHOO! Charity got it right! Yayfor Charity!
CindyS said on 06.03.06 at 03:49 AM
Hot damn, looks like another book to add to the TBB list although I did get burned on my first Ranney - miracle cure of leprosy - dropped the book the minute it happened.
CindyS
Candy said on 06.03.06 at 04:15 AM
Awww, I liked My Beloved, Cindy. And it wasn’t so much miracle cure of leprosy as misdiagnosis of eczema for leprosy, anyway.
Charity said on 06.03.06 at 01:58 PM
I won? I won! Oh, wow. I’m not sure I’ve stopped by on a Friday when the personal ad hasn’t been completely solved. I can’t wait to see my new title.
Victoria Dahl said on 06.03.06 at 06:19 PM
And it wasn’t so much miracle cure of leprosy as misdiagnosis of eczema for leprosy, anyway
Tell me this wasn’t the hero.
Molly said on 06.03.06 at 08:03 PM
Tell me this wasn’t the hero.
It was the hero.
But I liked that book too, even though disease was a plot point it wasn’t gross or anything. And medieval doctors misdiagnosing someone is pretty plausible, IMHO, as romance plots go.
CindyS said on 06.04.06 at 08:08 AM
See, I was so sure that it was another type of skin disorder also but I think the author set it up in such a way that it *had* to be leprosy. I think that’s why I was pissed. Basically he woke up believing he was cured and I dropped the book. I was totally waiting for someone in the story to realize it wasn’t leprosy but I guess the author took it too far for me to believe her anymore.
Was there a reason it cleared up overnight? ;) Hormonal release?
Ah well, what works for one ;)
Have you ever read The Mad Earl’s Bride (it’s a short story)? This was one story that worked for me. It was believed the hero was going insane but I think it was he was allergic to red wine thus the weird headaches and blackouts. There was another book by McKinney that had a hero who blacked out and when he woke, the police would find a woman dead. He was to the point where he believed he was killing them. Really well done - wish I could remember the name.
CindyS
smoorman said on 06.04.06 at 08:59 AM
In The Mad Earl’s Bride he suffered from migraines. The bad, make you wish you were dead kind. He decided he was dying, and between that and the way he acted when he was drugged, everyone deided he was right.
KarenS said on 06.04.06 at 09:55 PM
I loved the Mad Earl’s Bride. But then Loretta Chase could rewrite the phonebook and it would keep me up all night to see if we really do get to Z at the end. My only problem with it is I wish it had been a whole book instead of just a novella. They were such great characters and I wanted to spend more time with them. By the way, I liked My Beloved and then there was a follow-up set in the English Civil War that was great too.
Emily said on 06.04.06 at 11:38 PM
I was going to guess “Ethan” from Long, Tall Texans III by Diana Palmer.
But then I saw it said “*since* I was 16” rather than “I’m 16 now and I’ve loved you since I was twelve.”
Maybe she was nineteen. I don’t know, they had to make it legal. Or some such crap. God that book scared me.
Candy said on 06.07.06 at 06:44 PM
See, I was so sure that it was another type of skin disorder also but I think the author set it up in such a way that it *had* to be leprosy. I think that’s why I was pissed. Basically he woke up believing he was cured and I dropped the book.
I don’t remember Ranney setting it up so that it had to be leprosy (which isn’t particularly easy to get—you must have somewhat prolonged, intimate contact with a leper—but on the other hand, I can’t remember if he had or not). The hero certainly felt a lot of guilt for his actions, etc., and thought it was some sort of punishment from God. And he didn’t wake up miraculously cured—the heroine gave him an unguent to help him with soothe the pain or something, and that basically took care of the eczema.
Wow, we should totally warn people that there’s a MASSIVE! SPOILER! ALERT! in this discussion.
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