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This HaBO comes from Priya, who is looking for a possible category romance:
I read this (possibly Silhouette) romance in the mid-90’s. The heroine is a travel agent who once married an older man and adopted a son with him, but is now a widow raising a teenager by herself. The hero is a well-off business dude who’s only just discovered that his high school sweetheart got pregnant and gave up his/their baby without telling him that she was ever pregnant. He’s tracked the baby down (who is now being raised by the heroine) and wants to get to know him. And he ends up falling in love with the kid’s mom.
Does anyone remember this book? I think it was called “Loving Rachel” but the only book I can find with that name is a memoir and decidedly not a Silhouette romance.
So maybe I’m wrong about the title. Would love to know if anyone else remembers this book.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Looks like Romancing Rachel by Natalie Bishop?
https://www.fictiondb.com/author/natalie-bishop~romancing-rachel~4916~b.htm
Multimillionaire Tyrrell Rafferty III had everything a man could want…except a family. When he found out–years later–that he had fathered a child in high school, he was eager to be a part of his son’s life. There was only one obstacle…the boy’s adopted mother, Rachel Stone. She wasn’t quite so eager.
Recently widowed, the last thing Rachel needed was to have a white knight come charging into her life. She would take care of her son–difficult teenager that he was–without anyone’s help. She didn’t want Ty’s money, his assistance, his interference–until he broke through her defenses. Then Rachel decided that maybe…just maybe…she needed his love.
That’s the one! I’ve literally been looking for this book for years. And you’ve found it almost instantly. Thank you NT!