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This HaBO comes from Lisa F. and they want to find this very Gothic sounding historical romance:
It was a historical – I want to say it’s roughly set in the late 1800s London. A kind of a Frankenstein pastiche.
The heroine is the abused daughter of a disgraced doctor. She’s forced to assist him as he does medical/resurrection experiments on the stolen (dead) bodies of wastrels. Hero is a “corpse” the father steals, is very much alive (duh), and an amnesiac Duke-or-Earl who was robbed and knocked unconscious and dumped into the pile of stolen corpses. When the heroine realizes he’s alive, they rely on each other to escape her evil father and return the hero to his family, falling in love along the way.
I remember two other specific things about the book: she calls the hero “My Lachlan of the Moor(s)”, and there’s a scene that happens late in the book when she’s pregnant and he approaches her at a garden party.
This sounds fascinating.
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/tracks thread with bated breath.
I lost this book at the library and they sold it in a used book sale and I’ve never been able to find it again but I loved it dearly. Whenever I google My Lachlan of the Moor I get…things that are not this and romances that are not this, and I’m so looking forward to see if anyone else remembers it!
Omggggg I’ve seen this featured recently but I can’t remember where!!! It is a somewhat recent one and author not super well known.
I recently read something along these lines – the hero had been in Newgate, beaten almost to death, thrown into a mass grave and quicklime tossed on top. He crawls out, badly burned by the lime and suffering from amnesia, and the heroine spots him from the carriage, insists they save him and nurses him back to health … aside from the amnesia. Turns out he’s a pirate captain who has purchased a French title and, after her father and brother die, presents himself as the new earl (I think it was). He gets his memory back, has lots of money, finds a friend from Newgate (who has taken the hero’s name, since he was supposed to be the one killed). The hero had a dragon tattoo on his arm which was distorted by the chemical burns … it was a map to a treasure.
Could this be it? it really wasn’t that good (my copy’s gone to a second-hand book sale); the history was a mess.
Is this Tracy MacNish’s Stealing Midnight?
“Set in the English countryside, this exquisite new novel by Tracy MacNish reveals how one woman’s courage wins her the love she never dreamed she’d find…
While Olwyn Gawain lives as a virtual prisoner in her home, her scientist father conducts chilling experiments on stolen corpses in the dungeon of their keep. One night, Olwyn is shocked to discover that her father’s latest subject—a breathtakingly handsome young man—is still clinging to life. Refusing to let him die, Olwyn stops her father at gunpoint and flees, determined to bring the innocent man to safety…
The son of aristocrats, Aidan Mullin doesn’t know what to make of the unusual, intriguing Olwyn. But as the pair make their way toward Aidan’s home, he finds himself drawn to the alluring young woman who saved him from certain death. Fiery and sensual, Olwyn’s very touch fuels a desire in Aidan too fierce to deny. But when Olwyn learns he is hiding a heartbreaking secret, Aidan must face a difficult choice—or risk losing forever the love he so desperately needs…”
!!!!! MEGAN YOU DID IT! That’s the exact book! I even remember the clinch cover!! Thank you so much!!!!
@Todd – Not quite, but now I’m curious about that one. Is it the Earl with the Dragon Tattoo?
Stealing Midnight is $1.99 right now at Barnes and Noble!
I do hope Lisa F will give us a follow-up review
One-clicked this one!!
@Dorothea – I’d honestly be glad to!
Lisa F – yes! that was it … seemingly, it’s part of a series because the friend from Newgate turns up – well to do and happily married. I was blanking on the title.
@Todd – yay! I’m glad we figured that one out!