You did it! We figured this one out! It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me for certain) that the Bitchery pretty much knows everything, and really, it's true. Scroll down to see the solution for this HaBO - and many thanks!
This HaBO is from Sal-Pal who is looking for a sample read recently – but not too recently:
This has been eating at me for months because I think I only read the first chapter maybe a year ago, and it was definitely an ebook (so it may have been a sample?) and believe it’s fairly recent, as in from the last 3-5 years.
All I remember is that the hero is a police officer (Matt? Mark? Maybe?) and to prove he’s harmless entering a woman/love interest’s house for some reason in the middle of the night, he handcuffs himself and once she’s reassured he isn’t a threat, she uh, takes advantage of the situation.
This is terrible because I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT but holy catfish was it hot.
It’s nothing I can find in my Kindle samples either, and between that and Google I am at a total loss.
Thank you! THANK you!
Does he handcuff his hands behind him, or in front of him? Either way, that sounds… interesting. Do you recognize this book?
Ooo, this sounds good. Now I’m curious–hope someone can identify this one!
Oooh, I would so read this book. Somebody hurry and come up with the title, please.
Oh I think I read this book description- argh! But it reminds me in the best possible ways of the Courtney Milan scene with the ropes…
I think I know this one! In Hot, by Elizabeth Hoyt, Turner has robbed a bank to get evidence about fraud for which her uncle was (wrongly) convicted, and John McKinnon is te detective on her trail. He’s convinced that they need to talk, so yes, at one point he handcuffs himself to the bed so that she won’t run away from him.
It is indeed hot…
Is this the one? It came out as an e-book recently, and Hoyt originally used the pen name Julia Harper.
I think there was a scene like that in a very old Jill Shalvis book called The Harder They Fall(?), but he wasn’t a cop. I believe the book is available on Scribd.
It’s also a bit, but not quite like Christie Craig’s Divorced and Desperate. But not quite.
Thank you to folks who have responded! None of the three so far ring any bells reading the first chapters, although they all resulted in one-click buys (Especially since Divorced, Desperate and Delicious was free on Kindle!).
I wish I had a better memory, augh!
Although on even more googling I wonder if I am somehow mashing up a bunch of Tessa Bailey’s books? I know I went on a glom of her Officer Off Limits series (and found ’em in my 2012 history). There’s a Matt in one (who I do not believe winds up handcuffed) and a Brent in another who DOES, and from the bits I’ve read tonight they’re all vaguely familiar, but the samples cut out pretty early. I happen to OWN a bunch though!
Clearly I am re-reading all of these books this week to get to the bottom of this — however I wouldn’t have figured out the right stuff to search for without folks here as it was some “others also bought” recs that had Tessa Bailey in them!
@Sal-Pal
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, would you let us know if you find out. I’ve been watching this All Day because I want (need!)to read this book.
Ta.
@Coco
Heck yes! Because this is super catnippy for me, getting several similar-to books from the comments has been a huge win, but solving this mystery will let me put a couple of years worth of brainweasels to rest.
I’m reading Hot by Elizabeth Hoyt right now! That’s totally it! She wrote it under a different name originally.
@Abi
Oh! That’s fantastic! I read the online sample but it must cut out right before what I recall — it seemed familiar but well, so many books do sometimes.
I read a lot but have trouble retaining a whole lot — I actually use Calibre to note which books I’ve read, which I should likely re-read, themes, names, etc. But I hadn’t started using it when I read this, so whee! I am so, so excited to read this book and find out what happens next!
Thank you thank you and I’m so sorry Catherine for not cluing in sooner! I am SO GRATEFUL, you have no idea how much this has been bothering me, and so happy!
(Also his name is John MacKinnon, so that might be where the “M” came from, and he’s FBI, not police, and I am really shocked that I remembered what I did and not uh, SpongeBob and Yoda, because that kind of thing sorta should stand out…)
Yippee!!!
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*logs in to library website*
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Woohoo!!!
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*places hold*
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OK, now what!?
@abi Thank you! I am so buying this book!
Oh wow, I was right? So exciting – I never get these, but I just happen to have read this one for the first time a few weeks ago! Sorry my description wasn’t quite right – I was typing on my phone on the tram and going from memory…
All this handcuff/rope talk had me thinking about Giving in by Maya Banks. The hero lets the heroine (an abuse survivor) tie him up to reassure her that she’s totally in control during sexytimes.
I second the Tessa Bailey’s Asking for Trouble.
cool. I just got her newsletter this morning.
For the Love of Pete is also by her (hoyt/Harper) and it’s also WONDERFUL, and involves kheer (not in a sexy way, but still, it’s a major plot point) and it very loosely is related to Hot (the FBI guy’s partner in Hot is the main character in For the love of pete).
I know you already found the book you were looking for but that made me think of the Shayla Black MMF book Dangerous Boys and Their Toy. It’s really well done and has a male lead tied down/or right in the beginning. http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Boys-their-Shayla-Black/dp/1936596202/ref=sr_1_79?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428441893&sr=1-79&keywords=shayla+black