This HaBO comes from Dimitrea, who is searching for a mix of what seems to be romantic suspense and paranormal romance: This book I started many many years ago and lost it or is somehow unidentifiable in the horde of ebooks I currently own! Strap in because my memory of the first chapter or so is bonkers. The book opens with a SWAT/Private Mercenary team going in to rescue someone. There is a young mysterious … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Brings SWAT Member Back to Life →

This HaBO request comes from Ruth, who is looking for a novella that may be part of an anthology: I’m searching for a novella that was in one of those classic Christmas romance anthologies, usually four tales in a paperback. I believe this one was by Edith Layton, but I’m not 100% sure. I’ve searched many of those old anthologies for this particular tale, but have never found it. What I remember is that it … Continue reading HaBO: Historical Holiday Novella with Ice Skating →

This HaBO was sent in by Molly, who is looking for a YA series: A decade or so ago, I read a series of YA novels in which the main love interest was a bad boy, but he worked/volunteered at a senior citizens home and actually loved Barry Manilow. Specifically the song “Can’t Smile Without You”. I remember vaguely that maybe the titles had something to do with numbers? Like eight, nine, ten? And the … Continue reading HaBO: Bad Boy Loves Barry Manilow →

This HaBO request is from Jerrica, who is hoping to help out a library patron: I work in a library and someone is looking for a short story, but cannot remember the title. The person thinks it is Ursula Le Guin, but the anthologies we had on hand didn’t contain it. In brief, the story is about this land where people are given some kind of an aptitude test (by the government) and careers suggested for … Continue reading HaBO: Library Patron Help! →

This HaBO comes from Shawna, who is looking for this contemporary: I bought this romance as a paperback from the grocery store (or something similar), so around the early 2000s. The hero was a wrestler, WWE style, but aging out of the game and thus precipitating an identify/”what do I do with the rest of my life” -crisis. The heroine thinks wrestling is the dumbest, fakest thing ever, but has to be involved for some reason. … Continue reading HaBO: Wrestling Romance →

This HaBO comes from Allison, who is looking for this contemporary romance: I saw this one on Bookpage’s blog when that was still a thing, maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Now that they’ve changed the format, it’s gone. The excerpt was from when the man and womdorty an meet at the beginning of the book. It’s from her perspective, I think she’s a real estate agent or possibly a lawyer. He walks in to the … Continue reading HaBO: Muddy Boots →

This HaBO comes from Katelyn, who is looking for a book that is at least a decade old: I am trying to remember I book I read prior to 2009. The book was about a nobleman that was raising 10-14 children he claimed were his but were actually left on his property by a village woman and he wants a homely, unattractive wife to help raise them. His butler finds the “perfect” woman, however looks were … Continue reading HaBO: Nobleman to Raise A Dozen Children →

This HaBO  request is from Lianne, who is looking for an older fantasy/paranormal series: This is for a book that’s at least twenty years old (sorry). It’s a book in a series about romances between mer people and land people. One was set in ancient Greece, another was contemporary, but I’m looking for the book that was set in historical China, where the heroine was the mer, and the love interest is a Jewish doctor … Continue reading HaBO: Mermaids in Historical China →

This HaBO comes from Megan, who is searching for a paranormal romance: I read a book at least 2 years ago. It was a contemporary wolf shifter novel with enemies to lovers trope. The heroine was the daughter of the prior alpha who is killed by the hero prior to the book starting, which is what elevates the hero to alpha. He allows a bunch of degenerate wolves to join the pack and the pack … Continue reading HaBO: Hero and Heroine are Both Alphas →

This HaBO is from Elizabeth, who is starting to worry this book is just a figment of her imagination: I am trying to find a book that I read, but only remember a few things. It’s a historic, but I feel like it wasn’t written that long ago. I think that it’s a M/M romance where one hero has to marry this woman in a marriage in name only. I think she is asexual, but … Continue reading HaBO: M/M Romance with an Ace Wife →

This HaBO comes from Norma, who is search for this historical romance: I’m looking for a book I read a couple (few?) of years ago. It was about three sisters, one of which was abused by her husband. Somehow or another, the heroine’s husband ends up drinking poison which was in his drink – whiskey, I think (and yes he’s titled – he’s an earl or a duke or something like that) and for some … Continue reading HaBO: Goodbye, Earl →