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HaBO: Michael the Missing Husband

This HaBO is from Halie, who wants to find this romance:

Can you help me find the title of a book I read about a woman who had her husband’s baby while he was missing?

I read this probably 15-17 years ago but it might have been older than that. I’d love if someone could help me out! I’ve been looking for this for years!

I don’t remember many scenes from the book, but the main idea is that there’s a woman who has a baby. Her husband has been missing since before she had the baby. You find out later, she wanted a divorce and I think she tells him that around the time he disappeared.

One of the only scenes I really remember, is that she was with her child, at her parents home. She miiight have a boyfriend. It also might’ve been during the holidays. There’s a knock on the door and someone goes to answer it. It’s her husband, who’s been missing for a year. Turns out, he had gotten in an accident, or was attacked or something, and he had amnesia the whole time and he only recently regained his memories, and came home.

He wants to fix their relationship, she still wants a divorce. It’s a romance novel, so obviously they get back together. There’s a scene I think where he climbs up to her window and into her room and they get intimate. There’s a scene I remember where he sucks on her nipple through her nightgown.

I’m pretty sure his name was Michael, or maybe the baby was named Michael? and I think her name started with an S. Maybe Sarah or something.

Please help! I’m desperate. I’ve searched through all the amnesia romance I can, but it’s not any of the ones I’ve found. I think it’s because he had amnesia off script/screen and not in the whole book.

Sound familiar to anyone?

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  1. Heather says:

    This is older and doesn’t share all of the particulars, but Thorne’s Baby by Joan Hohl (1989). Thorne and his wife Valerie are having marriage problems and are childless – the tail end of the book Jonas is kidnapped and loses his memory, and his wife discovers she’s pregnant.

  2. LJO says:

    Following…..

  3. Abigail says:

    This sounds like about a half dozen Silhouette Romances I looked at when I was reading through abstracts trying to find a specific title. SO MUCH AMNESIA

  4. Gloriamarie Amalfitano says:

    Was he on a boat when he went missing? If so, I am embarrassed to say I read it, but can’t recall the author or the title. The boat might be another clue.

  5. Jenna says:

    Some possibilities:
    The Stranger She Married by Crystal Green
    “Two years ago her elegant, horse-breeder husband, Matthew, had up and vanished, leaving Rachel Shane and her little girl prey to the scandalous whispers of Kane’s Crossing. Then, without warning, a dusty, slim-hipped cowboy named Matt sauntered onto her ranch, professing amnesia. He looked every inch an outlaw, every inch a temptation….

    Matt vowed to claim what was rightfully his — his home, his family…his wife. But was he the husband who’d shattered Rachel’s dreams by disappearing…or a man who could seduce her hungry heart into welcoming him home?”

    Husband Found by Martha Shields.
    “Rafe Johnson had been searching for his past but he’d never expected to find a long-lost wife! He could hardly believe his eyes, yet being close to Emma, touching her, kissing her, stirred memories he’d thought lost and gone forever .

    Amnesia? Emma thought that excuse belonged in soap operas. Still, she couldn’t deny the yearning in Rafe’s gaze or the longing in her own heart. Six years’ separation had changed them both, yet Emma had never forgotten her husband. But now she had to introduce him to the son he’d never known he had!”

  6. Halie says:

    I don’t think any of those are it. The stranger she married seems close, but he wasn’t a cowboy and the child was a boy (and a baby)

    He might have been on a boat? I though it was a vehicle though.

  7. Scifigirl1986 says:

    I don’t know if there’s anyone named Michael, but as soon as I read this description, I immediately thought of Fade to Black by Amanda Stevens. I remember reading it when I was in college, which was about 15 years ago (oh, god, I’m old!).

    https://www.amazon.com/Fade-Black-Silhouette-Intimate-Moments-ebook/dp/B00TXCFGWI/ref=kwrp_li_stb_nodl

  8. Alison says:

    This sounds close but the kids is too old?

    Forget me Not by Marliss Melton
    Grand Central Publishing, Nov 15, 2008 – Fiction – 384 pages

    Helen Renault has started her life over thinking that her Navy SEAL husband Gabe was dead, but when Gabe returns he seems different and more caring, until the memory of the past three years starts to come back to him.

    A Hero’s Nightmare.
    Gabe Renault doesn’t know why he was in a prison camp. He has no memory of the past three years or of the Navy Seal mission that went wrong. Only two things kept him going: thoughts of his wife and the certainty that he must escape.

    A Sudden Homecoming.
    After Gabe is presumed dead, Helen pulls the tattered pieces of her and her daughter’s lives back together. Married young and for all the wrong reasons, she’s standing on her own two feet at last-and proud of it. Then comes the biggest shock of all–Gabe returns home. Gone is the distant, secretive husband he once was. This new Gabe is a man she could easily, finally, lose her heart to. But his memory is slowly returning, exposing a trail of government treachery…and jeopardizing his and Helen’s second chance at love.

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