This HaBO is from Nancy, who is looking for a book she read long ago but wasn’t permitted to finish. This one is an American Historical and sounds seriously old skool:
This one has been driving me crazy for decades! Back in the 70s, I was on a family visit to my aunt’s house, and bored out of my skull. I remember raiding her bookshelf (there wasn’t much there), and finding a couple of bodice rippers.
One was A Fire in The Blood by Mary Kay Simmons, but it’s the other one that is driving me crazy. It was set in the 1600s or very early 1700s, and went from England to colonial America.
I believe the hero was a ships captain. I don’t remember much about the heroine, except that she had a teenage sister with red hair, who later fell in love with a Native American brave who called her Autumn Woman. Since it was the 70s, this is seriously old school, but I would love to find this one again.
I didn’t get to finish it while at my Aunt Beulah’s, and my mom wouldn’t let me ask to borrow it. I’m really hoping The Bitchery can save my sanity! Thanks.
This one sounds like a challenge, but then, y’all know pretty much everything. I’m betting someone will be able to identify this one right away if they’ve read it. Do you recognize this book? Help a Bitch Out!
Possibly “Somewhere in the Whirlwind” by Amanda York?
http://www.paperbackswap.com/Somewhere-Whirlwind-Amanda-York/book/0671826069/
One of the few I found that didn’t include the heroine being abducted
I wish modern authors used this time period more often (or at all)! This book sounds interesting but I don’t usually like old school romances much.
hmm, I know I have read something like this with a hero-douchebag who travels from England to make a fortune and adventure in an early settlement in The Americas. He may have married the heroine because she is poor and therefore suited to the hard work he assumes she will be doing (and of course she knows this) and her sister is taken in an attack by the indians. But he was not a captain, I think he was some sort of younger son or adventorous almost nobility. Of course I cannot remember title/author, but since it was translated to norwegian it must have sold reasonably well in the US?
Thanks for all the help so far. I just remembered that the book had a black cover, with the cover art centered in a medallion. And the hero may have been a second son looking for fortune and adventure. There was one scene where he went into the sister’s room to say goodnight, (she was an endearing young brat and he rather liked her) and he stumbles, landing with his hand on her breast. He’s stunned when she likes it, and tells his wife she’ll be a handfull in another year or two.
The book in the original post may not be SWEET SAVAGE EDEN by Heather Graham, but I’m reasonably sure that’s the book Hvitveis is talking about. SSE was one of the first romance novels I ever read, so I recall it with a certain fondness.
Ashlyn: that sounds like “my” book. Cannot say I liked it that much, hero was a bit too much of an ##!%&! but the scene of the raid/aftermath have stuck with me. And the forced “seduction” of the sister that just squicks me out. (make her orgasm and all is forgiven… yuck.) But I remember liking how pragmatic the women were.