This HaBO request comes from Samantha. She wants to find a historical romance that has some Devil in Winter qualities:
I am trying to remember the title of a historical romance. I think it was published pretty recently.
The heroine lives with her uncle, who is always making inappropriate advances on her and she wants to escape from him. So she decides that she needs to get married. The heroine has her maid send a note to the hero and asks to meet with him. The maid has been with heroine for years. I think she might end up getting fired by the uncle, and she leaves a note saying that she went to stay with her family.
Anyway, the hero and the heroine get married – maybe elope. It is a similar plot to Devil in Winter, but the family situation is different, and I think the hero and the heroine like each other from the beginning.
Does this ring any bells?
My first thought was Ten Things I Love About You by Julia Quinn, but I just looked and the creepy uncle is the hero’s uncle not the heroines.
I think some of the other plot details are similar though?
This isn’t the book you’re looking for, but there’s also a similar plot in Lisa Kleypas’s WORTH ANY PRICE
I feel like this is the plot to Along Came a Duke by Elizabeth Boyle, but the plot on goodreads doesn’t quite match my memory of the book. I think she inherits a fortune somehow, and her uncles try to get her to marry her distant cousin or something by lying about how she can inherit it.
I think I know this one.
The Six Month Marriage by Amanda Grange. I would link but this stupid mouse won’t let me right click.
interested in the answer and I fear I have ni idea. sorry.
His At Night by Sherry Thomas? It doesn’t match up perfectly with the description, but the heroine does have a creepy uncle she is attempting to escape.
Courtney Milan’s Heiress Effect also has a creepy uncle, but no marriage or elopement, so it’s almost certainly not that.
Joan Wolf’s The Deception has a somewhat similar plot. The creepy uncle tricks the hero/heroine into a compromising position for revenge purposes,forcing their marriage, and the the couple has to work through this inauspicious beginning. The uncle gets even creepier as the plot devolves.
Funny how many creepy uncles there are in historical romances!
I feel like I have read this, but if I haven’t I definitely want to, it sounds really catnippy!