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This Help a Bitch Out request comes from Michele:
I read this book maybe….20 years ago or so?
Historical romance, set in the 1800s (possibly the Regency, although the tartan connection makes me think it's early Victorian), steamy.
The hero was a Lowland Scot who was kind of a scientist/inventor/scholar guy, and I think his family had a history in the cloth/weaving trade for the Scottish royals or something (the family name was Napier, and there was some business in the story about his clan colors being black and white).
The heroine was some kind of assassin/bodyguard, and I think maybe the hero hired her to protect his kids for some reason (he was a widower).
This sounds like it could be a Marsha Canham book, but I don't think it is.
Please Help a Bitch Out!
Somewhere, RedHeadedGirl just sat up and doesn't know why. And I can already hear several of you saying, “I WANT TO READ THIS.”
Do you recognize this book?
It sounds like Beguiled by Arnette Lamb. Here’s the back cover…
A Woman of Rare Valor
At the wedding ceremony of her sister, Sarah, Agnes MacKenzie leapt in the path of a speeding arrow, saving Edward Napier’s life. For Agnes, it was a matter of instinct and training—all Scotland knew her fame as a bodyguard. Few knew the heartache that spurred her perilous course.
A Man of Science—And Mystery
Despite the towering rage of her father, Lachlan, Duke of Ross, Edward Napier used his medical skills to tend Agnes’ wounds. Owing her his life, the widower granted her request to accompany him and his children to Glasgow. But he had no intention of allowing this beautiful, foolhardy woman to search out his unknown assassin.
A Passionate Union of Equals
Agnes had forsworn romance until she could right the wrong that burdened her, yet Edward’s powerful intellect and easy grace drew her like a magnet. Her audacious ways provoked him to fascination—and occasionally to fury. Amid a new storm of poisoned arrows, they would yield to a love as sudden as it was joyous…a love to cherish and protect as fiercely as life itself.
::ear twitch::
I finally know one and someone beat me to it. Shucks.
@Redheadedgirl….. Go on, you know you want to, it’s calling to you with all it’s purply, passionate, siren singing, bodice ripping magnificence ! 🙂
Scientist hero? Assassin heroine? That’s some Carrie bait, too
There I was peacefully eating my morning oatmeal, when I felt disturbance in the force. I heard a sound, like a million voices suddenly crying out, “Scientists hero! Assassain heroine!”
cool stuff
Annette Lamb also had one called Threads of Destiny that is very similar to this plot.
Who doesn’t want to read this one?
(Please, someone tell me is available in digital…)
Oooh! Doesn’t look like it’s in digital though, boo. I’m actually tempted to get a print copy, which I rarely ever do.
I appears Openlibrary has a copy. You guys can get it after I am finished 😉
https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Beguiled+Arnette+Lamb&has_fulltext=true
It was my question, and Avengela is right!!!! Now I can sleep tonight.
And then I need to find a copy of this. I hope it’s a good as I remembered.
THANK YOU, SMART BITCHES!!! 🙂
Michele, Openlibrary.org has it, and there was only one person on the waiting list when I turned it in. And if you haven’t tried open library yet, it’s awesome. Anyone with an internet connection who makes a free account can check out any of their books. It’s not even a requirement to be in the US best I can tell. Get the PDF version though, not the epub, because they’re scanned physical books. They have quite a lot of old books that aren’t available digitally.
Thanks, Erin! Openlibrary is awesome. Believe it or not, the library system for which I work still owns two paperback copies, so I put one on hold. Can’t wait! 🙂
I’m always impressed when paperbacks last that long at libraries. It makes me think the patrons of that area are kind and careful.
I was surprised, too. I’ll bet one of those copies is the exact one I read 20 years ago. They’re at our district center, though, and that’s a big library with a large romance collection; they often buy duplicates of titles popular authors (which Lamb was back in the day) and keep them in storage for when the originals wear out and/or go out of print.
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