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 request comes from Lulu, who is looking for a historical romance:
I’m really struggling to remember a book I’ve been looking for ages and can’t find it, or remember the title or author.
It’s a historical. The heroine is a painter, who I think is divorced or in an unhappy marriage. She is attempting to forge a career as a portraitist.
The hero is a spy, who is sort of a chameleon. He is posing as an aristocrat (I seem to remember that the novel is set between Paris and London), but is really some sort of intelligence officer/assassin from Eastern Europe. He has a manservant/sidekick that went through a traumatic time with him in his past. The hero is always described as feline, and he pretends to be asleep a lot, which has something to do with spy training and techniques.
I know this isn’t much to go on, and I’m sorry I can’t provide more details!
An artist heroine and a spy hero. I know quite a few members of the Bitchery who would be into this!
I feel like it is Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00502AYRC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
I second Captives of the Night!
I only know the ones that everyone knows. Yes. Loretta Chase (and in the Lord of Scoundrels series. Icon cleaned and verified by this same artist in LoS
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I knew this one! LOL Captives of the Night
Well that was the easiest HaBO ever!
Definitely Captives of the Night! The most underrated Loretta Chase, ever!
I read this book this summer, and loved it. Read the HaBO and had no ideas what it could be.
I am so glad everyone else is better at this than I am!
This sounds great, and I am SO glad the Bitchery is so amazingly good at identifying books!
And now I realise I want a ressource that helps me find books with my special catnip – somewhere I can enter “librarian, cat, pediatrician/baker/carpenter, hot sex” and I get a list of books that fit the description. Is there an app for that?! 😀
Thank you so much, I feel kind of embarrassed it was so obvious to everyone else. But overall V grateful to find it, and excited to read it again!
Thanks so much xx
@Alexandra:
I WISH. But we’re working on building something that might help a little. Stay tuned!
@SB Sarah:
OMG ALL THE YAYS! 😀 I am excited and delighted and looking forward to you revealing whatever it is! 😀
Loretta Chase- Captive of the Night- LOL I had to pull it up from my list at the library!! amazing book- also the heroine is french? or spent a lot of time in France!
Ohhh that sounds exciting @SB Sarah