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This HaBO is from Atiqah, who wants to find this historical romance:
I don’t remember exact specifics. All that I can fully remember is that the heroine and hero are in different social classes.
The heroine is in a committee of laborer/workers (?) where they’re trying to make a petition on something. The heroine has to paste all these posters of the petition around town, (she has a friend or a companion, I think). The hero’s an aristocrat (very North and South) and he’s so fascinated with the heroine that he helps her to put up those flyers or something?
They were both attracted to each other, but kept resisting it. There was a scene where the hero went to visit a village, the heroine accompanied, a fire happened, they had to put out the fire, and all I remember are pails of water.
Hopefully someone recognizes this book because it is killing me.
Wow, that escalated quickly!
The Duchess War
by
Courtney Milan
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I’m pretty sure this is Duchess War by Courtney Milan!
Seconding The Duchess War.
If not Duchess War one of the others in the Brothers Sinister is possible. The fire sounds like The Suffragette Scandal, also in that series.
Agree, this is three different books in the Brothers Sinister series — putting up the posters I believe is a Kiss for Midwinter, the Duke interested in social justice is The Duchess War and the fire is Suffragette Scandal.
I’m pretty sure the flyers are in Duchess War – doesn’t the hero get paste on the heroine’s dress at some point while they’re putting them up? The fire’s definitely in Suffragette Scandal, although the circumstances are a little different – it’s the heroine’s house that gets burned down, and the hero tries to help her put it out.
They flyers are in Kiss for Midwinter — Doctor Grantham helps Lydia put up public health posters.
Sounds like Suffragette Scandal to me.
All three are really good books.
Now I am trying to remember if the same flyer incident is described twice — once in The Duchess War with Robert and Minnie putting up flyers on one side of the street and Jonas and Lydia on the other side of the street described in A Kiss for Midwinter.
Oh, hey, an excuse to re-read Courtney Milan. I’m already re-reading the Turner series so why not 🙂
I believe the flyers are in both, because of I remember correctly, both Grantham and the Duke use the occasion as an excuse to spend time unchaperoned with their respective interests. However, the other details except the fire all for The Duchess War.
Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan
The posters are a plot element in both SS and Duchess War, but the rest of the details are SS.
Never mind, I reread the HaBO, and I think Duchess War.
Just read the entire Brother’s Sinister series. They’re fantastic. One of them will be the right book, and you’ll get to enjoy the others as well.
Another book in this vein is Starlight by Carrie Lofty. It’s not the HaBO, the details don’t match up – but has an aristocratic hero and a mill worker/union activist heroine, set in Glasgow in the 1880’s. It had some issues but I remember being impressed with the unusually wide social gulf between the h/H when I read it years ago.
Omg yes! It is The Duchess War, don’t know why I never thought about it. The things I remember got lost in between the plotlines I remember from the book, which was the chess and fainting etc. I looooove Suffragette too, Free always!!
Thank you so much everyone.
Now gotta go back and reread the entire Brother Sinister series again.