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 is from Jennifer. She’s hoping to find a historical romance from several decades ago:
The book I am trying to remember was from the late 1980s (sometime between 1986 and 1988, I think), and I remember buying it at my local CVS.
It was a Revolutionary War romance. The cover was of a dark-haired man and a red-haired woman. The main characters were Devon and Cassie, and Cassie worked in a tavern. Devon and his family were well-to-do on a farm in one of the colonies, and I remember there was some scandal involved. Then, he was fighting in the war and somehow she became an American spy involved in Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware. I think they end up being a happy colonial farming family after the war.
Anyone know this? The names are a huge help!
Silver Storm by Cynthia Wright has a female Devon, she’s a red head, he’s dark haired. But his name is Andre. Old skool pirates and bodice rippers.
My Google Books search has suggested Raging Desire by Colleen Faulkner.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Raging_Desire.html?id=XXq5sAmqiJIC
Kara, I read Silver Storm recently, and it’s not it, but a good one–pirates are YUM, esp in a Cynthia Wright book!!!
Andrea D, I think you found it, WOW that was quick!! I just ordered it from Amazon. this time, i won’t be lending it to an unreliable friend, haha! 🙂 thanks!!!!
@Kara, you had me at pirates. And Silver Storm is free on Kindle!
@Jennifer (LW), Yay! Glad to help. Always fun to see a HaBO solved and especially to help find it! It’s been stressful days lately, so I’ll take victories where I find them.
Where I live, Devon is a manufactured meat.
Which makes for weird reading sometimes.