This HaBO is from Lori, who wants to find this romance: I read this book in the late 70s or 80s and I’m thinking it was a Harlequin. A man is on the run (maybe from the FBI) and he kidnaps a woman who suffers from ulcers. Milk toast is the only thing that settles her stomach. He escapes with the woman by rafting through the Grand Canyon, where she has a change of heart. … Continue reading HaBO: Milk Toast
This HaBO comes from Kierra, who wants to find this YA book: I read this book a friend gave me when I was in 6th grade (I’m 20 now for reference). It’s about a girl in a post-apocalyptic (maybe, not sure?) world, and she has this love interest named Cole. There are a few other characters. I remember this one guy who dates a girl named Kayla (maybe?). She ends up dying and I think … Continue reading HaBO: Apocalyptic Cole
This HaBO is from Elizabeth, who wants to find this romance: I need help finding this old Harlequin romance from the late 90s: The main female character’s name was Nikki and she was an olfactory scientist performing research on how the brain reacted to various scents, similar to how pigs find truffles in the woods. She was specifically trying to research if voles, or hamsters, could make bonds through scents. She sets up an experiment … Continue reading HaBO: Olfactory Scientist
This HaBO comes from Emily, who wants to find this book: I’m looking for a book that I think was a HABO – maybe five years ago? Not recently, and it might have only been something discussed in the comments of a post, because I have searching all the keywords I remember on the site and haven’t found it. What I remember is that it was a category romance from the 80s or 90s and … Continue reading HaBO: HaBO from a HaBO
This HaBO comes from Liz, who wants to find this book: I would love to track down my very first romance read (20 years ago) that I discovered at age 19 in my (very waspy, educated, and serious) grandma’s house. She taught me that even serious educated women can love romance AND always order dessert ❤️ Here is what I recall: A historical with enemies to lovers… Innocent, virginal maiden is on a carriage ride … Continue reading HaBO: Robin Hood Sex Party
This HaBO comes from Christine, who wants to locate this romance: I remember in the early 90s reading a time travel romance, in which the heroine goes back to the Old West. She meets up with Jesse James’ James-Younger gang and falls in love with one of its members, Clell Miller (who was an actual person). This is all I remember but as Clell Miller did exist, I thought it would be easier to find. … Continue reading HaBO: She Falls in Love with a Member of the James-Younger Gang
This HaBO is from PamG, who wants to find this romance: I read this book some time in the last decade and I don’t think it was older than that. I remember no names associated with it; it’s as though I was mind-wiped by aliens, but I’d really like to read it again. The male protagonist is a genius professor/researcher known for his unpleasant attitude, antisocial tendencies, and his brilliant research. His boss/department head wants … Continue reading HaBO: Earlier STEM Contemporary Romance
This HaBO comes from Becky, who wants to find this romance: This one’s driving me crazy. I own it, but I haven’t read it in ages my digital libraries are so out of control I can’t even begin to try and find it with no author or title. It’s a m/m/f erotic romance where the heroes are already together (they live together, but I’m pretty sure they’re together, together too) and the heroine keeps running … Continue reading HaBO: Threesome in a Parking Lot
This HaBO comes from Kim, who wants to find this historical romance: The book is about a young woman who goes to live with a duke(?) she is supposed to marry. This aristocrat has a twin brother who lives in the mansion (the hero of course). The young woman believes that her “maidenhead” is her actual head and when the twin sees it, she panics and yell at him for “taking her maidenhead.” The duke … Continue reading HaBO: She Takes “Maidenhead” Too Literally
This HaBO is from Full Metal Ox, who is hoping to find this romance comic: This one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain; I recall having seen—probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on a platform other than Dreamwidth—a U.S. romance comic from the 1940s or 1950s that had an anthology host, something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorro-esque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history (and … Continue reading HaBO: Vintage Comic Search!
This HaBO comes from longtime reader, Hanne: So, the book is quite old – I remember finding it in my parents’ bookshelf, probably during the mid-to-late-nineties, and it may be from around then or even earlier. My parents’ hardcover was in black, white, and red, I believe – but I may misremember. It was in one of the hard-to-reach shelves, which of course meant that it was one of the more interesting shelves to early … Continue reading HaBO: Wee! Woo! Bonkers Book Alert!
