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This HaBO is from Katie, who was inspired to find this book after our Category Romance Rec League:
The category romance rec league reminded me of a sample I read a long time ago, and I can’t remember the title or author. Google was not helpful, especially since I didn’t actually read the book. Now it’s driving me crazy. I’m kind of curious about trying category romance, but even if I never read this, it will bother me if I don’t remember it. I don’t think it’s that old, probably within the last 10 years, because I think I was out of college when I ran across it.
The hero is a rich guy (not sure if he’s a billionaire) who slept with the heroine and then stayed away from her because he didn’t want a serious relationship, and he really liked her and was worried it would get serious. I think she’s some sort of baker, possibly of cupcakes, or maybe a caterer. There is a secret baby. The impression I got from the sample was she tried to get in touch with him by phone and email to meet, but he never answered her (see above re: fear of commitment) and that’s why he didn’t know about the kid.
I think this was part of a series involving brothers with a matchmaking mother, because I remember him thinking about how the mom introduced him to the heroine. Also I think they were all adopted, but I could be mixing that up with something else.
In the sample, the heroine is in his hotel room for some reason (I think arranged by the mom to get them together) and he walks in and finds her (in the shower?). It wasn’t in the part I read, but I suspect the kid or evidence of the kid is there and that’s how he finds out. The opening was from the hero’s POV, because all of this stuff about her attempts to contact him and him not wanting a relationship were things he thought about in the sample.
I realize this is vague and full of common tropes, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Sweet Surrender, Baby Surprise
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Kate Carlisle
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I know this one! I believe you’re looking for “Sweet Surrender, Baby Surprise” by Kate Carlisle. It was the middle book in a trio about three brothers (all adopted) and their meddling mother. They were Harlequin/ Silhouette Desire books.
I’m always surprised when HaBo comes through. No matter how vague the description, someone’s gotchu!
That’s it! I recognize the sample. First try, too. Thank you so much! It would have just nagged at me until I knew what it was…
Wow! The knowledge of the SBTB community does blow me away! I don’t know if this is something that would interest anyone else-but I would love something like HABO-but not necessarily romance, to find books. For example, I am dying to find a book I read back in the 1960’s or 70’s-it was about a girl in high school who played basketball-I LOVED that book. I feel like this community is such a resource of readers-with a wide age range. All who are such book lovers-maybe a miscellaneous HABO? I totally understand if Amanda, Elyse and CarrieS wouldn’t want to dilute the message, but I’ve been on other sites that try to figure out these things-but I feel like SBTB blows everyone else away in terms of the commenters.
@Maureen: We’ve run non-romance HaBOs in the past, so feel free to submit the request!
@Maureen, did she play basketball or might she have been a cheerleader at basketball games? One of my favorite books in the seventies was Ruth Doan MacDougall’s The Cheerleader (published in 1973).
Oh, goodness, I’ve got a book, too. Not a romance. But it does have amnesia – woman beaten unconscious, husband killed with a piece of sculture, She remembers not much, but starts to explore what turns out to be an abusive relationship and a horrible, abusive childhood. In the end, she remembers all and her psychiatrist is helping her make peace with the past and she is starting to date.
Read in the 90s, was second hand.
@ Maureen: The book has to be “My Sister Mike”. Thanks for reminding me of it! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1794265.My_Sister_Mike
@Amanda-Thank you!! I will do that!
@Kareni-she played basketball, that was a big part of the story. Now that I think about it, the book could have been written even earlier than the 1960’s. It was a library book that had been weeded from circulation, and given away. Thank you though, and I need to check out the book you mentioned!
@Maureen, if you read The Cheerleader, I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Did you see Michele’s suggestion above?
I still have some of my Sunfire and other teen romances from the early 80s. My mom bought them to stop me from reading her romance books–like that would happen.
OH MY GOD!! MICHELE!! That is the book! I am seriously stunned right now! I knew her nickname was Mike-but all my googling never found the right title. YOU ARE MY HERO!
@maureen, I’m glad I could help. No one is more surprised than I that I remembered the title, but it popped into my head immediately.
The basketball-playing high schooler could be R R Knudsen’s Zanbanger. It’s the sequel to Zanballer, where she plays football on the boys’ team. Both books were written in the early 70s.