This HaBO comes from E, who is hoping to find this historical romance:
In these profoundly weird times I need my comedy Regency fix.
I remember a book where the hero and heroine keep stealing an item back and forth from one another.
I believe it was jewelry and had a special significance for the hero’s grandmother or mother.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
This is very familiar to me.
Reminds me of “The Sandalwood Princess” by Loretta Chase, one of her old Regency short novels from the early 1990s. It wasn’t jewelry, but a sandalwood statue that the hero stole from the heroine, and I seem to recall she stole it back, and there was this back-and-forth of theft.
oh goodness… I know what book you’re talking about but I can’t remember the title, either!
It was a family ruby that was given away, considered stolen, stolen back, etc.
Candice Hern’s _Her Scandalous Affair” is a STRONG possibility. The hero’s grandmother (a countess) wants a heart-shaped pendant. Every previous countess in her husband’s family was painted wearing it, and every previous marriage was a love match. The hero and heroine keep stealing it from each other and replacing it with a fake until they finally get the “whole story” about how it wound up in her grandmother’s hands.
All I can think of are those delightfully hysterical bunch of P G Wodehouse novels where Bertie’s Wooster’s Aunt Agatha orders him to continually steal a silver Dutch 17th-century cow creamer. Jeeves is of immense help.
Aha! It was Candace Hern’s Her Scandalous Affair! Thank you! I cannot wait to re-read it. But now I’m nervous to, because I really need it to be as funny as I remember it being.
Gloriamarie Amalfitano, what on earth is a cow creamer? It’s conjuring up several images in my mind, and they are all really disturbing.
@sweetfa: I haven’t read them, but it’s probably a little jug designed to hold milk/cream as part of a tea set. Presumably either cow shaped or with a cow engraving.
Apparently, they are popular collectibles:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=cow+creamer+vintage&_trksid=p2334524.m4084.l1311.R4.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xcow+creamer.TRS0&_osacat=18875&_odkw=cow+creamer&_sacat=0
DiscoDollyDeb …. I was mooooooved 😀
@sweetfa, I thought I amnswered you!! LOL
It is a creamer, to hold cream in the shape of a cow. Apparently it is quite a thing:
http://www.ascasonline.org/windowGIUG97.html
The first book that came to mind was Pickpocket Countess by Bronwyn Scott, but rereading the synopsis I’m not sure about the stealing back and forth? The heroine definitely steals a family heirloom of the hero’s though.
I remember reading a historical romance that the heroine had stolen the heroes watch. In the epilogue of the novel it is said that in every wedding anniversary they had she was re-gifting him his watch that she kept stealing. Unfortunately, I am still looking at my library and I can’t find it. Maybe someone else will remember.
Is it All Through the Night Paperback
by Connie Brockway?