You did it! We figured this one out! It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me for certain) that the Bitchery pretty much knows everything, and really, it's true. Scroll down to see the solution for this HaBO - and many thanks!
This HaBO comes from Rebecca, who is trying to track down this book:
I read this book a year or two ago and can’t seem to track it down.
TW: abuse
This book follows a young English(?) woman who escapes her abusive father (after fetching the wrong pair of slippers(?), he once split her head open. She came to on the floor a few days later, and had to rip the already healing wound from the floor, resulting in a scar). I believe she was betrothed to another potentially abusive man (the other reason she was running away). She begs for the help of a, I want to say, Scottish man and he takes her along the journey back to his castle or estate with his men.
I remember her falling into a creek, her wearing her mother’s dress (one of the few items she has left of her), and her getting blisters from walking in ill fitting shoes.
The band of men also call her wench a lot and take a while to warm to her presence. Also, she nearly gets taken by highwaymen after going her own way when the other main character and his band of men tease/treat her meanly/with indifference.
If anyone can tell me the name of the book or the author, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks!
Someone has to know this!
The Iron Earl
by KJ Jackson
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It’s The Iron Earl by KJ Jackson.
I was thinking The Duke With the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne.
Jeebus, why? Why would anyone want this?
Definitely Iron Earl. I remember reading this (the floor bit sticks in your head) and checked my copy after Susan’s comment to verify.
All I can say is that I hope with all my heart she has a HEA because if ever anyone does, it is she.
FWIW The Iron Earl is currently in KU.
@Crystal, Lorelei has a leg disability, I believe. Her brother is cruel. The Rook rescues her before the wedding.
I think I will borrow this from KU just to show solidarity with the requestor. I hope we never get so “Smart” that we look down on other people’s “Trashy.”
Well put MaryK.
Susan is right! The requester emailed us to let us know it’s the right book. Another HaBO solved!
Looking at the reviews, I’m very amused that books like this (with sex and cursing) are apparently the downfall of society.
@Varian Ross- those are the reviews that made me get it. As soon as I read them I was clicking so fast, click, click, click.
@Varian Ross & @Christine — I’m always floored by those reviews because I want to find those women and ask them what they thought they were getting into when they’re so shocked by the sex. I don’t read them, although I do understand that “clean” romances exist, but there’s no indication that this book is one of them from the description.
Also a big fuck off to those same reviewers complaining about language; that blows my mind too since I truly don’t understand how one can exist without swearing at this god damn world every day. 😉
@spinster.revival, a-fucking-men
I don’t mind a book with cursing and/or. I don’t mind a book without cursing or without sex. If it’s billed as “clean and sweet” though, it’s a guarantee that the book is shoddily written with over-simplistic plot lines, dialogue that sounds like it was written by high-schoolers, and heroes and heroines that over-react to stupid shit. No depth or nuance. Like the heroine will jokingly laugh at the hero’s hat, and he will throw a fit and sail off to India for 5 years kind of over-reaction.
I’m guessing those reviews come from clean and sweet devotees.
I am always more frustrated when I start reading a Christian romance that hasn’t been billed as such.