This HaBO is from Elle, who wants to find this historical romance: I’ve been doing a bunch of searching on both SBTB, GoodReads, and Google, and am not finding a specific novel I remember loving from my formative early romance reading days. Key plot points: It was historical set in the US with a train journey cross-country. I think the heroine was a writer? Maybe a journalist. And she maybe wore spectacles. The hero might … Continue reading HaBO: Cross Country Train Ride →

This HaBO comes from Priya, who is looking for a possible category romance: I read this (possibly Silhouette) romance in the mid-90’s. The heroine is a travel agent who once married an older man and adopted a son with him, but is now a widow raising a teenager by herself. The hero is a well-off business dude who’s only just discovered that his high school sweetheart got pregnant and gave up his/their baby without telling … Continue reading HaBO: Travel Agent, Maybe Rachel? →

This HaBO request is from Susan, who is searching for a historical romance: Hero’s backstory: He is the son of a Duke (?) and his mom hates his dad so much she drops the hero off on the London docks/Thames waterfront when he is a small child. He gets put to work as a mudlark along with other young boys. When he is years older, maybe 8 to 12 yeas old, his father somehow finds … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Abandoned on the Docks →

This HaBO comes from Mary, who is trying to find what she describes as “British chick lit”: I’m hoping you can help me find a book I read several years ago, in the middle of a British chick lit binge! I really thought it was a Jill Mansell, but none of the plot descriptions are ringing bells and I don’t want to read through her entire backlist to find it. The plot I remember is … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Ghostwrites His Aunt’s Books →

This HaBO is from Shannon, who is trying to track down one of the first romances she read: This is everything I remember about one of the first romance novels I read sometime in the late 80s or early 90s and have not been able to find again. It may have been in a Reader’s Digest condensed book. My grandparents had a stack of them and I’m sure no one thought anything about me reading … Continue reading HaBO: Comstock Laws →

This HaBO comes from Emily, who wants to track down this historical romance: The book I’m trying to find is n historical set in England – London mostly – I think it’s a Regency. It’s part of a series I’m pretty sure. The heroine is the daughter of a professor/inventor/scholar of some sort and her mother’s dead. They live in Europe somewhere. Then her father’s killed and she hides until his attackers – who are … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine’s Father Leaves a Note in Book’s Margins →

This HaBO is from Atiqah, who wants to find this historical romance: I don’t remember exact specifics. All that I can fully remember is that the heroine and hero are in different social classes. The heroine is in a committee of laborer/workers (?) where they’re trying to make a petition on something. The heroine has to paste all these posters of the petition around town, (she has a friend or a companion, I think). The … Continue reading HaBO: Historical Heroine Puts Up Petition Posters →

This HaBO request is from Amina, who is looking for a romantic fantasy book: I am DYING to find this book. It’s a fantasy with romantic elements or a strong romantic subplot. The heroine is shy and isolated. She is the priestess or caretaker for the town temple; the townspeople are afraid of her and mean to her. One day a wounded, hot guy is left at back of her temple door. She takes him … Continue reading HaBO: Shy Priestess Heroine →

This HaBO request comes from Katie, who is searching for this historical romance: The heroine is the daughter of a physician who has since died. She is very interested in medicine. The hero is, I believe, a titled Englishman with either a son or ward. The hero and heroine marry. She continues to pursue her interest in medicine even as hero forbids her to do so. At one point, while the hero is away, the … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Walks in on Heroine Doing an Autopsy →

This HaBO comes from Florence, who is hoping to find this paranormal/fantasy romance: The story is about a woman who is trying to escape something or someone, I think her evil family who wants to marry her off. She gets caught by a group of cursed horsemen (quite sure they had black, scary, truly devilish horses with red eyes). These horsemen are traveling the world like reapers, either collecting souls or killing people that should … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Travels with the Four Horsemen →

This HaBO request is from Riz, who is looking for this historical romance: After a long period of forced exile, I’ve come back to the fold of literary sisterhood. But I wish to start it of with the one that got away. I’ve been looking for a period romance book and it’s been driving me nuts. The heroine, a debutante, gets set up while at a social event/ball by some other jealous girls and gets … Continue reading HaBO: Couple’s Clandestine Meeting is a Setup →