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HaBO: Wave Causes Heroine to Lose Her Virginity

This HaBO is from Amanda, who is looking for this Old Skool romance:

Long ago, I read a book with a bonkers plot. It had to have been published in the 80’s.

The heroine, a virgin of course, ends up on a ship heading to the Caribbean. I don’t remember if she was trying to escape her family or if she was kidnapped for revenge.

Anyhoo, she and the ship’s captain butt heads. He thinks she’s a sex worker but can’t resist her, and she falls in love with him, as one will do in an 80’s novel. They mess around, but never do the dirty deed. Once they reach the island, he drops her off at his house on the beach. The night before he leaves, they’re in the ocean fooling around saying goodbye.

Now here’s the crazy part. They consummate their relationship when a wave picks her up and she lands on his…you get the idea…she’s no longer a virgin. The man is such a dolt as he doesn’t realize it’s her first time until later.

He finds her sitting in a window seat in his house on the top floor all depressed. Of course, they profess their undying love for one another and sail off into the sunset.

That’s all I remember.

That must have been some wave.

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  1. kkw says:

    Was there a villainous mistress who had all the kinky sex?
    Or was the virgin heroine a secret pirate?
    Not that I remember the name of either of those books, which could be the same book, for that matter.
    Just wondering how many relationships were consummated because of impatient Carribean ocean waves. Because I have definitely read at least one where that happened.

  2. Carol S says:

    Shana Galen, The something something bride? (the roguish pirate’s bride? the pirate’s roguish bride? There’s a Johanna Lindsey one about a Carribbean pirate too.

  3. Lostshadows says:

    The only Lindsey one I can recall with a dedicated Caribbean pirate was far too rapey to be this book.

  4. Lisa F says:

    This is super duper early 80s-ish. Too crazysauce to be a Robards or a Roberts, but feels like something from around that time period? It feels very familiar, either way.

  5. chacha1 says:

    “That must have been some wave.”

    LOL

    OMG for real. Not simply force, but accuracy!

  6. Carol S. says:

    OMG WHY DID I THINK THERE WAS A PIRATE IN THE BOOK????

  7. Beck says:

    The author definitely doesn’t know how sex works. Not even a tiny bit.

  8. Debbe says:

    The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss would be my guess.

  9. Betsydub says:

    @Debbe- Nope; in TFATF, I think the “hero” rapes the heroine on his ship. Well, I’m positive about “the ‘hero’ rapes her” part, anyway…

  10. SC says:

    This sounds so familiar! Is it Catherine Coulter? One of her really early ones?

  11. Janet says:

    i kind of need to read this book now

  12. Marian Perera says:

    I read the title and thought the wave itself took the heroine’s virginity, i.e. the hero was not involved.

    That made for one weird mental image.

  13. Caiti says:

    I think… Island Flame by Karen Robards. There was a sequel too called Sea Fire.

  14. That sounds bonkers.

  15. S says:

    I’m definitely looking forward to the resolution of this HaBO, this title sounds crazy! Perfect summer read!

  16. Lisa F says:

    @Caiti – I’m almost 100 percent you’re correct! I think I discounted her crazysauce propensity.

  17. María says:

    Lady Vixen by Shirlee Busbee?

  18. Brianna says:

    This was a previous HABO from 2014. Someone else suggested what @Caiti said.

  19. Aaron says:

    I don’t think it’s Island Flame. I looked at it, via Scribd, and the “hero” just straight up rapes the heroine in the second chapter.

  20. @Aaron I agree. I read a very detailed review on Goodreads and it’s nothing like the description above.

  21. Aaron says:

    I feel like the plot sounds a bit like Chance the Winds of Fortune by Laurie McBain, but I don’t want to pay six dollars to see if the wave-sex is in there. I own a couple of McBain books, but this isn’t one of them.

  22. Amy says:

    Lol Aaron, “wave sex”. Maybe it can be a new trope. Ooohhh-maybe Aquaman can be involved.

  23. S says:

    Alright, Chance the Winds of Fortune is available at my local library. I’m going in … probably in the next few days. I will report back!

  24. Dee says:

    My first thought was Once An Angel by Teresa Medieros but I don’t think the hero was a pirate or sea captain so I am not sure. (But that one had crazy sauce for other reasons as I remember).

  25. Molly-in-Md says:

    “The heroine… ends up on a ship heading to the Caribbean. I don’t remember if she was trying to escape her family or if she was kidnapped for revenge.”

    Sure. Because she couldn’t be on vacation or moving to a new job. Of course not. LMAO and RME.

  26. S says:

    Chance the Winds of Fortune is not it folks. The sex in that one is on a very sandy beach although a lot of the premise is the same. Sadly, no wave of glory in this title!

  27. Marleen says:

    This description somehow reminds me of Rosemary Rogers’ Wicked loving lies, but I’m not certain as I read it tears ago in French (Le sabre et la soie), when I was living in Normandy. It fits the time period and the sex worker part, at least.

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