Today’s personal ad contest is somewhat inspired by our recent amnesia romance synopsis contest. You know the score: The first person to give us the correct title, author and heroine’s name will find yourselves the proud bearer of a Smart Bitch aristocratic title—a prospect that would make anyone pee in their pantaloons, to be sure.
Love-Addled Fool
Tall, feisty, republican blonde chick with even taller, feistier, republican-ier brothers seeks big, robust man who can keep up with her but not boss her around. Mild retardation resulting from a kick in the head from a horse OK, but if you’re a redcoat…well, I’ll still totally hump you in the hayloft, but our love will be doomed, DOOMED, I tell you. Love of violin music a definite plus.
Is it Karyn Monk’s “The Rebel and the Redcoat” featuring Jo and her hero Damien?
Nup!
We need another hint! I haven’t the foggiest!
(Okay, so I hate revolutionary war era books… so I’ve probably never read it!)
Ummmm…both hero and heroine are blond?
And there’s a sub-plot involving a spy/double-agent.
And what the hell—this book was published back before Harper was bought over by Avon.
Also: how many romances set during the Revolutionary war that involve involve visibly brain-damaged heroes ARE THERE, anyway? I mean, when I say “mildly retarded,” I MEAN mildly retarded.
OK, another hint: I’ve used another one of this author’s books for a personal ad contest before, and like this time, the book eluded our readers for quite some time.
This author has won a RITA.
Okay, shot in the dark here:
Susan Kay Law
Traitorous Hearts
Elizabeth Jones, aka Bennie
YAYYYYY!
YES, Robin, you’ll finally have your own Smarte Bitche title!
Everybody, do the Snoopydance!
(I really, really love Traitorous Hearts. I do. And dammit, I wanted one of the brothers to have a sequel, because he seemed so interesting. If youse guys can find a used copy somewhere, I highly recommend it.)
Oh I SO knew this one! Damn living across the world and thus 14 hours ahead! The posts go up in the middle of my night!
I really, really love Traitorous Hearts. I do. And dammit, I wanted one of the brothers to have a sequel, because he seemed so interesting. If youse guys can find a used copy somewhere, I highly recommend it.
The sad thing is that this book is still in my TBR pile, and when I went searching through all of my American historicals today, ta da! So now it’s jumping to the top ‘o the pile, and until then, I’m feeling retroactively reborn from my fumble with The Golden Touch. Now I have two blonde moments—one tragic and one victorious—with two blonde characters (and one blonde guesser). Yippee for me (I think we all know I’m not particularly humble)!!
Actually, the sad thing is that I actually searched for this book, but it sounded so familiar, and I have two big school projects that require my assiduous procrastination right now.