This HaBO comes from Emily, who wants to find this book: I’m looking for a book that I think was a HABO – maybe five years ago? Not recently, and it might have only been something discussed in the comments of a post, because I have searching all the keywords I remember on the site and haven’t found it. What I remember is that it was a category romance from the 80s or 90s and … Continue reading HaBO: HaBO from a HaBO
This HaBO comes from Liz, who wants to find this book: I would love to track down my very first romance read (20 years ago) that I discovered at age 19 in my (very waspy, educated, and serious) grandma’s house. She taught me that even serious educated women can love romance AND always order dessert ❤️ Here is what I recall: A historical with enemies to lovers… Innocent, virginal maiden is on a carriage ride … Continue reading HaBO: Robin Hood Sex Party
This HaBO is from Braylin, who wants to find this book. Content warning for abuse in the description below: I read a book when I was about 12-13 years old. It was way out of my reading level but I was so intrigued by it because it had a few illustrations of the characters drawn in black and white, like really old portraits. I believe it was a historical fiction book. The main character is … Continue reading HaBO: Historical Fiction with Sketches
This HaBO comes from Christine, who wants to locate this romance: I remember in the early 90s reading a time travel romance, in which the heroine goes back to the Old West. She meets up with Jesse James’ James-Younger gang and falls in love with one of its members, Clell Miller (who was an actual person). This is all I remember but as Clell Miller did exist, I thought it would be easier to find. … Continue reading HaBO: She Falls in Love with a Member of the James-Younger Gang
This HaBO is from PamG, who wants to find this romance: I read this book some time in the last decade and I don’t think it was older than that. I remember no names associated with it; it’s as though I was mind-wiped by aliens, but I’d really like to read it again. The male protagonist is a genius professor/researcher known for his unpleasant attitude, antisocial tendencies, and his brilliant research. His boss/department head wants … Continue reading HaBO: Earlier STEM Contemporary Romance
This HaBO comes from Becky, who wants to find this romance: This one’s driving me crazy. I own it, but I haven’t read it in ages my digital libraries are so out of control I can’t even begin to try and find it with no author or title. It’s a m/m/f erotic romance where the heroes are already together (they live together, but I’m pretty sure they’re together, together too) and the heroine keeps running … Continue reading HaBO: Threesome in a Parking Lot
This HaBO request is from MelKelCan, who wants to track down this romance: Once upon a time I read a historical romance set in Scotland (I think?) where the heroine was married to a lord of some kind, who became ill and progressively lost control of his legs. They discovered that he would be unable to father children, or even have sex. At some point, a third character entered the scene, possibly a former laird … Continue reading HaBO: Man Asks Scot to Sire Children with His Wife
This HaBO request comes from Jacquie, who wants to find this Harlequin romance: I stumbled upon your website from Reddit. There is a book I have been trying to track down for years, with zero luck. Here goes: It was a Harlequin historical romance novel, from before 2000 (I think likely from the 1980s or 1990s. I think I read it around 1998…it probably wasn’t new then though). The man in the story was a … Continue reading HaBO: Captain Buys Her Soft, Leather Gloves
This HaBO request is from Jenny, who wants to find this romance: The book focuses on a female main character and I think she lives in a big city like NYC, London, Chicago. She has a problem at her work and decides to get help from a very grumpy partner who is always the first one in the office and the last one out, always has his door shut and everyone tries to avoid him. … Continue reading HaBO: Grumpy Coworker Never Comes into the Office
This HaBO comes from Kim, who wants to find this historical romance: The book is about a young woman who goes to live with a duke(?) she is supposed to marry. This aristocrat has a twin brother who lives in the mansion (the hero of course). The young woman believes that her “maidenhead” is her actual head and when the twin sees it, she panics and yell at him for “taking her maidenhead.” The duke … Continue reading HaBO: She Takes “Maidenhead” Too Literally
This HaBO is from Alyssa, who wants to find age-gap romance. Trigger warnings for pregnancy complications in the description below: I’m going out of my mind not being able to find this book again! I read it last year on Kindle Unlimited and I can’t find it anywhere. Its not really all that dark but more of a taboo relationship. It’s an age-gap romance. I think there’s like a 15-16 year age gap and the … Continue reading HaBO: She Falls for Her Late Dad’s Best Friend
