This HaBO is from Kate, who hopes to find this romance. Content warning for the description below:
I probably read this book back in the 80s or 90s, and I need to find it again…because it had such a crazy plot. I must reread it.
The heroine is a doctor or a health care professional. She lives in Montana or Wyoming on a ranch. Her elderly husband recently died and left the ranch to her.
Okay, the bonkers plot elements: her husband’s adult son from his first marriage shows up on her doorstop. The son is hostile, but attracted to heroine.
Next plot element: there have been a series of rapes and maybe murders in the area. Heroine suspects a particular doctor, and has sex with said doctor so she can get a sperm sample from herself!!!!! To compare to DNA from rape victims!!!
Meanwhile her “stepson” is still hanging around and falling in love with her. He is a lot like his father, so she is falling for him too. I know there is a happy ending because there is a sequel where she is pregnant and they go to some clinic or conference in the Caribbean.
The only other thing I remember is that I checked this out of the Boise library, and the book was in the first fiction shelf – in the A to D authors. Oh, and either the heroine or the authors first name is Samantha.
Hopefully some of my fellow veteran bitches will know the answer. Thanks for any answers.
Bitches, assemble!
Wow. There’s a lot going on, definitely a book of its era.
The crazysauce here is admirable.
Okay, I know I read this. Is it possibly one of Sandra Brown’s category romances under one of her several nom de plumes? I’m trying to think of anyone else I read back then who would dive that deep into the crazy sauce. Come on unconscious long term memory spelunkers, do your work.
That sounds like a lot of sex for a HQ in the 80s.
Ok I need someone to find this. I totally need to read this. Purely for romance history research purposes.
This was not a Harlequin or Mills and Boone. It was a regular hardback in the public library – Kate
@Kate: Thanks, Kate! I don’t know why I had Mills & Boon in my head. I’ve corrected the post.
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