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This HaBO comes from Nancy, who is looking for this romance. It sounds like a contemporary:
The heroine is raising her nephew (her older sister’s child, sister died somehow). The nephew is a teenager around 15-16. They live in a small town. The boy’s father (hero) never knew about his son, but receives a letter stating that the boy is his son and asking for money in exchange for keeping his secret. The hero is famous/wealthy but I can’t remember how/why. The hero assumes that the letter is from the heroine and in their first meeting he is very angry, but it turns out that she is not the one trying to blackmail him.
I believe the heroine earns a living as a landscaper/gardener. As the book progresses, the heroine feels insecure because the hero can buy so much more for his son that she can.
Does this book ring any bells?
Long Time Coming
by
Sandra Brown
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Long Time Coming, an old Loveswept romance by Sandra Brown, hits all cylinders except the heroine is a graphic artist, not a gardener. (She is gardening when the astronaut hero rolls up in his Porsche to yell at her about the letters he’s been receiving, though.)
(To further highlight my age and immaturity, I am now laughing like Beavis and Butt-Head over the book’s title.)
This sounds very familiar and I definitely read Sandra Brown, but for some reason I am thinking Jill Shalvis?
Yes it is long time coming. The hero is an astronaut.
It does sound Sandra Brown-ish. Also does she have a thing with astronauts? I remember reading The Switch, (totally not this HABO) which also has a hero astronaut (and twins, one who was murdered, and a pregnancy, and a cult).
This sounds a lot like Never Enough by Lauren Dane, 4th book in the Brown Family series, except the heroine is a piano teacher & the hero isn’t being blackmailed, although at first when he finds out about his son from the heroine, he thinks she wants money.
Definitely Long Time Coming.
You all are awesome, it is Long Time Coming! Whew, thank you, it was driving me crazy. But I’m definitely going to look up Never Enough and Jill Shalvis to expand my horizons. Thank you, everyone!
I will be looking this book up just for the title ROTFL