This HaBO request is from Alison, who is hoping to find this romance:
I’m trying to remember a book I read and have neither the title or author.
She has IBS or Crohn’s or UC. She goes on a vacation-ish and ends up staying in a friend’s family vacation house. The brother is fixing up said house.
Grumpy/ sunshine romance begins.
He has/finds a dog and begrudgingly takes care of it. They go to a friend’s house, she eats beans to be nice and it super tiggers her digestion issues. It’s set in a wooded or mountain-ish setting. She was taking time off work due to her health. I believe he painted either as a profession or hobby.
I have no idea if that is enough, but I’d love to find the book again!
I know we can HaBO!
I’m almost positive this is a Chloe Liese book … With You Forever?
SEALed with a Kiss by Mary Margaret Daughtridge? The heroine has celiac disease. And there is a dog. 🙂
I was thinking it might be Toni Blake Whisper Falls. I verified that the MC has Crohn’s disease and she has an episode of illness in the book.
I agree with @Saby – “With You Forever”. Rooney is the best friend of Willa, who was coupled with Ryder Bergman in the first book in the series (“Only When It’s Us”). Rooney has IBS – the situation with the beans happens in Ch. 21. Axel Bergman is an artist who is on the autism spectrum (he is the oldest of the Bergman brothers). Although Axel is grumpy, he is a sweetheart, especially in the aftermath of the bean episode. This book has a marriage-of-convenience trope – Axel is fixing up his family’s vacation A-frame in Washington, and needs to be married to claim an inheritance that will fund the repairs.
I second Toni Blake’s Whisper Falls.
Please, never confuse IBD and IBS. Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are very serious diseases. I have Crohn’s. Both are incurable autoimmune diseases of the gut. I’m a certified IBD advocate by CCF, formerly CCFA. I’ve lead support groups, testified in the MD Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee for legislation, fundraising, etc…
Celiac is not IBD. Many IBD patients avoid gluten, but they are not the same.
If your looking for a book with positive and authentic IBD representation, try Jacquelyn Middleton’s A Smile in a Whisper.
Most authors get a lot of aspects of IBD wrong.
Also, calling diseases recognized and protected by the ADA “digestion issues” is not kind. It sounds dismissive, out of context, and is not empathetic. We are people with real, incurable chronic inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract. We face discrimination every day.
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@Denise: Thank you for your comment! Admittedly, I wasn’t sure how to categorize the list of possible diseases mentioned in the post, especially because these HaBO requests can be nebulous with details vs what actually occurs in the book.
That being said, I’m happy to change the title of the post and I appreciate you taking the time to correct me. I apologize for my flippant categorization.
Sounds very much like Chloe Liese’s With You Forever, an absolute beauty of a book.
It’s not the book being sought, but Lucy Parker writing as Elle Pierson in the book ARTISTIC LICENSE features a heroine with Coeliac Disease.
Thank you, Amanda. <3
100% this is With You Forever by Chloe Liese.
Wait, Lucy Parker writes under another name???? Mind blown. Off to see what’s out there.
And Denise, thank you so much for your advocacy regarding autoimmune diseases, of which I have one (lupus). They are so complex and seem to have many symptoms in common which can make them confusing. The one thing they all have in common: they suck donkey balls.
The hero, not the heroine has Celiac in Artistic License. But it’s a great book.
Definitely With You Forever. One of my favorites!
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needs to be married to claim an inheritance
Ooh, it’s the genre of “make up a wholly imaginary and unenforceable legal situation to drive the plot”.
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I have joked so many times about going to Romance Novel Law School so I can specialize in the most absolutely off the wall last wills and testaments. “Want to piss your family off from beyond the grave while also making plot fodder for countless novels? Call now!”
You laugh, Sarah, but my Estates and Trusts attorney hubby has shot down some of my best plot ideas because “you can’t control people from beyond the grave.”
However, you can make their lives more difficult, e.g. his trust said that if he passed, the estate would pay for our children to go to college at any school not located in Athens, GA or Tallahassee FL. He couldn’t prohibit them from going to specific universities, but he could limit their options. Fortunately, it was never an issue.[g]
@Darlene: Romance Novel Law School’s Trust and Estates division begs to differ cordially with your attorney hubby! I’m sure they will exchange letters about it, of course.