This HaBO request is from Rammy, who is looking for a book that sounds like a contemporary romance:
This story was a part of a series; the couple from the book before are getting married in this one. That couple was a woman, who was marrying her dead husband’s brother, and she just gave birth to twins who may have been either her dead husband’s through in vitro or his brother’s through the same method.
The couple in this book is a woman who may own a bed and breakfast or hotel. Either way, the home she owns is old and needs a lot of work. She receives help from the local amnesiac and of course, they fall in love. He lost his memory in a car accident; he may have been driving a motorcycle. Whenever a memory would return, he would get a migraine. He may have been a reporter or a photographer or a photojournalist.
In the end, he discovers his identity and must go away to take care of some business, and the heroine thinks he isn’t coming back.
I know those are a lot of sketchy details, but my memory works in the most mysterious ways.
I feel like I know this book or have fuzzy memories of one that’s similar, but nothing concrete is coming to mind.
The woman marrying her dead husband’s brother and with twins sounds a lot like part of Nora Robert’s Inn Boonsboro Trilogy, which does have a book where someone is refurbishing/running a B&B, but the love interest is local hottie contractor, not an amnesiac.
I know Gina Wilkins The Stranger in Room 205 had an amnesiac who turned out to be some sort of journalist (I think) but none of the rest of the story is similar. The heroine in that one was a local newspaper reporter
I KNOW I’ve read this! I looked through a couple Goodreads lists of amnesia romance and…. This one? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/361540.Bad_Boys_On_Board
There’s not a description of each story, but the era I would have read the book in would have been when I was glomming on Lori Foster and Donna Kauffman.
From a review on amazon: “A FAST RIDE (Nancy Warren)…Nell Tennant has come home to Kansas to regroup from the fast paced life she led in L.A. When an unconsious biker flies into her aunt’s yard, she saves his life…and arouses his desire. Suddenly she has a criminal in her house that doesn’t even know his last name. And one that she lusts after. She knows that the game will be up when he regains his memory, but for now, Nell decides to take advantage of the man that stirs her blood like none other. Wes knew that he wasn’t a criminal, but he didn’t know why he knew that. All he knew was the only person he could trust is Nell. The only thing he can’t figure out is why he can’t remember someone like Nell. When he does get his memory back, he doesn’t know whether to be outraged or flattered. He does know that he won’t give Nell up, though.”
How about Born in Ice by Nora Roberts. She had a Bed and Breakfast and the hero was a mystery writer (not amnesiac sadly). In the end he leaves her behind while she valiantly says goodbye. When he comes back a few minutes later he catches her sobbing her eyes out and proves to herself she isn’t made of ice after all. Some elements match but certainly not all.
Actually sounds like some Sandra Brown form back in her Loveswept Romance days Send No Flowers & Breakfast in Bedi
FROM back in her Loveswept days. FROM.
Hi this is my request. All of these books sound interesting, but not quite right. Although he was riding a motorcycle, he wasn’t a typical biker. And send no flowers sounded like the book before it in the series, but the twins are too old.
So close!
I feel like I read the earlier one! Where the widowed heroine finds out her son has leukemia and it turns out the best bet for a bone marrow match would be a full-blood sibling so she tracks down her dead husband’s estranged identical twin to knock her up via in vitro so that she can have another genetically full sibling for her kid. But he has the hots for her so he THINKS ABOUT HER while he jerks out his “specimen”. And then she’s pregnant with his twins and they somehow fall in love? I read it in the mid-2000s and I think it was a Silhouette, maybe from a bit earlier than that…
Hi Sabrina
This probably was a Harlequin or Silhouette from the early 2000s. But she didn’t have a son, the twins were her only children and the brother wasn’t a twin.
I’ve never read a Silhouette where they actually show the hero giving a “specimen”. That sounds interesting.
Haha, I was convinced that was the one but after some googling it seems like maybe “hooking up with your dead husband’s brother while pregnant” was a more common trope in the early 2000s than I thought… haven’t seen anything that looks like your book though, sorry I couldn’t help!
Thanks, it’s amazing to me all of the different tropes that are out there.
I love it when an HaBO reveals a sub-sub-genre like this. Who knew this would be a popular trope?