This HaBO comes from Hely, who wants to find this historical romance:
I am an avid romance reader. I and a few of my fellow readers on Reddit can’t remember/don’t know the name of this book and will be truly grateful if y’all could help out. Here’s all we know and remember:
It’s a historical romance. The hero is called Ned. He is a huge nerd, a physician, a Scot, and wears eyeglasses. He is very polite. However, he is a complete Dom in the bedroom–quiet and authoritative.
There was a scene in the bedroom where he asked the heroine not to turn around and undress slowly. He refused to touch her the whole time. She was a shaking mess by the time she got her clothes off.
This is heavily paraphrased by the way, I have not read the book. The description was provided by one of the commenters and nobody knows what this book is called but a lot of people on this subreddit wants to read it.
The only historical I know with a Ned is Bedding Lord Ned by Sally MacKenzie, but I don’t think that it’s it considering the sex scene descriptions. (I also haven’t read it, so I’m assuming here.)
Commenting to follow! I do love a nerd in the streets/Dom in the sheets combo 🙂
Courtney Milan has a book with a hero named Ned Trial by Desire. Don’t remember enough to know if it fits the rest of the description.
Julia Quinn has a Ned in a novella, called Where’s My Hero. She doesn’t usually write doms, but a hero demanding the heroine disrobe while he watches wouldn’t be totally unexpected.
Possibly something by Nicola Davidson? I haven’t read all of her books, but she writes historicals that feature D/s relationships, menages, etc.
Bad news, friends! The requester emailed us shortly after this was posted and said the Reddit commenter was confusing this with an unfinished draft they’d written. Fingers crossed it makes it to publication someday.
So, Amanda – do the thousands* of us for whom our Tuesday highlight is the HABO get another post to work out today?PLEEEAAAZZZE?
(*totally unscientific guestimate, but I feel good about it)
Haha, “confused it with their own unfinished draft” seems like a very handy trick to drum up interest in their upcoming work. I mean, but it achieved its goal — 100% would read this book.
That is patently unfair, because I REALLY want to read this.
Stupid sexy Flanders…
Dangit! I think you called it Sue C. Yeah… I would really like that book. If anyone knows of a different romance featuring a polite, be-speckled nerd who turns out to be a dom, please let me know!