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This HaBO is from Tanya, who is looking for a historical romance that she remembers a few pieces of:
I’m looking for a book that I read while I was procrastinating from assignments, so it was published as an ebook as well. (not sure if that is relevant at all).
The heroine didn’t want to get married, so she thought that if she created a scandal (at a house party or ball?), she would be ruined and sent to the country. However, she ended up being forced to marry the hero, when they were discovered. Thus her plan backfired, to some extent.
She wrote letters to her grandmother and kept them all together as her grandmother had passed away, leaving the heroine with money (possibly).
She also wrote letters to her husband and ended up showing these to him near the end of the book.
I think that this is sort of what happened. Its a bit vague, sorry. But if anyone could help, that’d be fantastic 🙂
This one is tickling the back of my memory and I swear I know it but I just can’t think of enough details either to Google them or go search my library. Do you recognize this book?
Could it be Miracles by Judith McNaught?
I second Christa. Based on the details given, it’s Miracles. I like Nicki and Juliana, but I felt kind of cheated of their story due to its length. Nicki deserved more than a novella, imo.
I just read one like this, not a McNaught, is it the one where she writes to him as they grow up, when he’s away at school, and the beginning of each chapter are letters, and after his parent(s) die suddenly, he stops answering them, but she keeps writing them, even when she’s not sending them to him anymore? and in the end, she writes a cute little letter to her…
The one I’m thinking of is “A Rogue By Any Other Name” by Sarah MacLean
Oh except the hero ruined her on purpose, forgot that bit, but I feel like there’s another one I’ve read that also uses letter excerpts at the beginning of each chapter…
Sounds like “miracles” by judith mcnaught, which was originally published in a christmas antho. A Holiday of Love, i believe.
Also, @eleine – yes x 1000. Nick’s story was absolutely cheated to be done as a novella and not a particularly long or well-paced one, at that.
Fourth-ing “Miracles” by Judith McNaught. It’s in at least one anthology, maybe two (there was a separate anthology with Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught holiday-themed novellas that republished some novellas, I think). I totally thought that story needed to be longer, preferably with more estrangement and more groveling. Always needz moar groveling!
Sounds like the novella ‘Miracles’ by Judith McNaught – Julianna and Nicki’s story. I really wanted it to be longer!
It does sound like Miracles. She didn’t set them up to be caught but the hero thinks the worst of her and believes she did. Then he dumps her in the country and goes back to London (where to me it sounded like he recommenced his bachelor lifestyle, which ruined the character for me).
It was Miracles by Judith McNaught. Thanks guys so much, I’ve been trying to find it for years 🙂
I recently read the Fitzhugh Trilogy by Sherry Thomas and your remembrance of writing letters sounds like it could be “Claiming the Duchess” which is currently a free download on Kindle.The letters, however, were not written to her grandmother but to a friend who she never met face to face until the end. Could that be it? I think it sounds like it is. Claiming is a novella, an extra story associated with the trilogy 1) Beguiling the Beauty 2) Ravishing the Heiress and 3) Tempting the Bride. Tempting the Bride might be the one you are talking about with Helena Fitzhugh who owns her own publishing company and is caught by her brother’s friend in an inappropriate relationship with a married man. (The married man’s wife was forced into the marriage to save the family estate.) Actually, as I write this, Tempting the Bride is probably the one you’re looking for. Finally, I would recommend “The Bride of Larkspear,” also by Sherry Thomas which is the gentleman’s porno/very naughty manuscript that Helena throws into the bottom drawer of her desk. Hope this is helpful to your search.