This HaBO is from Smiley, who is hoping to find this romance:
I am desperately looking for a book that had these scenes.
1. The book is part of a series and contains characters from prior series.
2. The protagonist is a war veteran who returns home.
3. He becomes involved romantically with the sister of one of his friends.
4. There is a scene where the protagonist gets into a fight at a bar and his best friend absolutely blows up at his sister and she goes home.
5. The sister feels neglected by her brother, who struggles with PTSD and anger issues.
6. The protagonist leaves and returns for a happy ending.
Does anyone else recognize these details?
Sounds like a Mary Balogh,
I don’t know which one, sounds like tropes she would use
Do we know if this is historical or contemporary? Thanks.
I don’t have an answer, but it sort of feels like one of the later Virgin River books (Robyn Carr). Most of the protagonists were war veterans.
Any chance it was a Fool’s Gold book? There was a least one war vet with PTSD. One of those billionaires.
Also reminds me of books set in Marietta, various authors use the setting, and characters show up in different books.
I’m thinking it might be a contemporary since they are at a bar for a fight? I feel like this could be so many books, this is a tough one.
Maybe Laura Kaye or Harper Sloan?
Oh! Suzanne Brockmann? She has the navy seals series, and I’m sure that’s one of the plot lines.
Doesn’t ring any specific belles, but it made me think of Elle Kennedy.
I agree about Suzanne Brockmann. One of the later ones with Eden and Izzy-but possibly not their book. That storyline went on for a while.
the Suzanne Brockmann novel with that plotline is Taylor’s Temptation but not sure if that’s the one OP was referencing.