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This HaBO request is from Clemence, who is looking for what sounds like a pretty crazy romantic suspense:
I am looking for a book I could swear I first learned about from your site, but I’ve just spent way too much time searching the HaBO archives, and I can’t find it.
In this book some kind of military dude is protecting some kind of aid worker in (Africa?) because thee’s been a coup or something. They’re holed up hiding overnight and she tells him she’s a virgin and doesn’t want rape to be her first experience of sex, so he…obliges. It’s hot.
Then the next day they’re somehow rescued and she’s whisked away by her super-rich family’s security force and brought back home because they always knew that her going to Africa or wherever was a terrible idea, and she can now go back to being a society hostess which she hates. And then the military dude somehow magically KNOWS that she got pregnant from their one night of highly unsanitary war-zone loving, and he comes and rescues her from her stuck-up family, and then I can’t remember what happens.
This is driving me nuts. I don’t even think this book was that good, but for some reason it keeps popping back into my head and I need to get it out of there!
Whoa, any HaBO veterans recognize this from a previous one? Or possibly an older review? I know I’ll be hunting through the archives!
I think it’s “Mackenzie’s Pleasure” by Linda Howard – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1561628.Mackenzie_s_Pleasure
Sounds like Linda Howard but she was hostess for her dad, the diplomat, not an aid worker. And he went to go find her because wanted her, not because she was pregnant. Of course once he knew, she got wisked to Vegas for a wedding.
Even if this is not the book you want, I foresee a re-read in my immediate future. The 7-up scenes…!!! 🙂
And there were brothers too, right? Do I remember a scene where she goes with him to a house they share and meets the other guys?
I agree with Nancy, although I don’t remember the name of the book. But I definitely read one where she was a hostess for her diplomat father, was kidnapped, and they had sex so rape wouldn’t be her first time, etc.
Yes, Paige is correct, this is definitely the one with Zane MacKenzie and the pregnant heroine keeps downing cans of 7-Up in one shot. I think it’s the third book in the series and the first three really are the best.
Karen Robards wrote a book called To Love a Man in the 1980’s about a sheltered journalist who goes to Africa and gets caught up in a revolution or something. She is rescued by an American mercenary and they have to run for their lives, meanwhile, of course, having unprotected sex. I’m pretty sure she discovers that she is pregnant after she is safely home and he chases her down and says he loves her, blah, blah, blah. This was the first contemporary romantic suspense book I read that had an Alpha asshole hero and it seemed somehow so much worse to read about in a contemporary than in a historical.
It sounds like one of Lucy Monroe’s Goddard Project books but I’m really bad at this so I’ll let you go from there.
http://www.goodreads.com/series/72465-goddard-project
It’s totally the Linda Howard. Thank you so much! I conflated it with some other aid worker in Africa plot, but I just re-read the scene where the hero, with zero contact, smugly KNOWS that the heroine is pregnant and then goes to find her. Totally weird. I’m so relieved I didn’t make this up in my head.
There is a book by Suzanne Brockmann Everyday Average Jones which might be what you are looking for.
Clemence, I’m glad the mystery is solved. I recognized your book as “Mackenzie’s Pleasure” right off the bat, too.
Man, the ONE time I could ACTUALLY help a bitch out, and everybody beats me to it!
On the bright side, I’m totally pulling out the Mackenzies for immediate re-reading. 😀
WSS – I’m so excited that I knew one! Add me to the Love Zane Train. 🙂
Yep. Time for a Zane Mackenzie re-read. :=)
I knew it was Zane’s book, too. I think that was my first Linda Howard book so I glommed all I could find, and she is still one of my favorite authors.
SandyH, I was totally thinking this is almost identical to Brockmann’s Everyday Average Jones, but not the same book. LOL, I loved that one, and that series.
Isn’t there also an Iris Johansen book with a fairly similar plot, but in South America? I think the heroine and hero were both captives of a terrorist despot, and for some torture reason the terrorists kept putting the heroine into the hero’s cell, plus there was probably also some actual torture, until finally they get it on because otherwise the despot will rape the heroine, so she gets to lose her virginity with an audience, and then they somehow escape?