This HaBO request is from Jay, who wants to find this romance (and yes, it does sound similar to last week’s but there’s no relation):
I’ve been trying to figure out the name of this book for years, so I may be misremembering things at this point, but you guys are my last hope!
The main thing I remember is that the heroine and hero (and possibly a villain) are stuck in a cycle of not ending up together, she dies, and then they get reborn. She doesn’t remember any of this, but I think he does.
The book starts with a girl in a castle/keep and the hero is a warrior/warlord that arrives and I think they might need his help? Then for some reason they get matched together. She finds him terrifying, so he tied himself to a chair (in a tower?) so they can talk.
I have high hopes that if anyone knows this book, it’ll be one of your readers. Fingers crossed and thank you for all you do!
The “tied himself to a chair” feels very familiar to me!
!!! Reader, does this reincarnation romance plunk them subsequently into the 1930s and then into the modern era?
Linda Howard’s Lake of Dreams is a novella with several of the elements of the HABO. A couple are reincarnated several times throughout different time periods which he remembers but she only knows through dreams.
I do not know what this is but I want to read it immediately!
Jo Graham has a series that could fit. The books are all set in different time frames beginning with The Black Ships. The same characters get reincarnated in each book, but are different people.The Black Ships is set during the Iliad the next is in Egypt, then Alexander the Great, and on through history. I have not read the one set in 1700s.
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Jude Deveraux Rememberance
Could this be one of Katie macallisters books? She had a couple that were reincarnation-y/ past lifes-y. Good luck!
Might it be Barbara Erskine’s Lady of Hay? It’s been a really long time since I’ve read it, but it involved past life regression. Unfortunately I don’t recall any other details.
Would it have been a Kay Hooper book? I think she had a few reincarnation ones. I think in Finding Laura he knows but she doesn’t but I don’t know if there’s a medieval theme.
Could it be Kay Hooper’s Finding Laura? The main hero knows but heroine doesn’t but I don’t remember a medieval theme.
Hmmm, the only one I can think of is Mary Luke’s The Nonsuch Lure. It has the multiple reincarnations plot, but it starts in the time of Henry VIII.
@KarenF–Lady of Hay doesn’t have any re-incarnations, just the time-slip between the modern era and the time of King John. I loved that book, but boy, does it put the reader through the emotional wringer!
Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole has a similar plot, but switched: the hero is cursed to keep dying and reincarnation, while the heroine is immortal and remembers everything. Think it starts with a Viking flashback
If a major plot point was that he is a vampire, I’d say it sounded a lot like Time Without End by Linda Lael Miller. It starts with a medieval setting, she always dies, and there is a villain in the cycle with them. But the warrior part of the HABO doesn’t match and the “he is a vampire” part of TWE is pretty hard to forget…
I’m not very confident in this match, but the description reminds me of The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller.
I doubt it’s My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares… I hated that book so much. I threw it across the room. According to the goodreads reviews, many copies of this book flew across rooms.
It has lovers meeting over and over again through time. He remembers, she does not. It does not have an HEA, but it was supposed to be the first of a trilogy (so eventual HEA), but then book 2 was cancelled.
@Barb in Maryland: OMG, someone else remembers The Nonsuch Lure! I own two copies because it’s so hard to find now. It does have the “enemy through time” element, but it lacks the “she’s scared of him and he ties himself to a chair” element.
Mesmerized by Candace Camp has a reincarnation plotline but I don’t remember if the other aspects are correct.
Maybe A Moment in Time, by Bertrice Small? There’s reincarnation, Welsh mythology, and multiple timelines. And I vividly remember my mom yelling at me for reading it in the car in the way to church.
I also think it’s Remembrance by Jude Devereaux.
I don’t know it but I want to read it. Fingers crossed that one of them is the actual book
Ahh, I totally missed when this got posted! I looked into most of your recommendations, and I don’t think we’ve found it yet.
One of the main things I remember is that there wasn’t a major modern component, and it started in the medieval (I think) setting from the girl’s perspective. The initial meeting was standard historical romance and didn’t yet include the reincarnation angle.
I did get sucked into Dreams of a Dark Warrior, which looks like it’ll be a fun read! Thank you all for your guesses!