This HaBO request is from one of our new reviewers, Sneezy. It’s incredibly detailed (and hilarious): The book I’m looking for is about a princess (or some kind of royalty; I don’t remember the exact titles used in this book, but it’s an equivalent position) who is sent off with her nanny/chaperone/maid to wed a prince from a desert nation/tribe. Initially, she kind of bummed about this. She felt like she was being married off … Continue reading HaBO: Princess Married Off to a Desert Kingdom →

This HaBO request from Stephanie, who is looking for this historical romance. Content warning for the description below: The heroine’s name is Maggie. She is poor and lives in a shack, but she’s beautiful. She wears a threadbare gown and her creepy dad secretly lusts after her, but wants her to stay a virgin because a rich guy named John wants to marry her. She doesn’t like John, but he sets fires in her body … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Tries to Save His Sons in a Flood →

This HaBO comes from Nancy, who is looking for this romance. It sounds like a contemporary: The heroine is raising her nephew (her older sister’s child, sister died somehow). The nephew is a teenager around 15-16. They live in a small town. The boy’s father (hero) never knew about his son, but receives a letter stating that the boy is his son and asking for money in exchange for keeping his secret. The hero is … Continue reading HaBO: Gardener is Raising Her Nephew →

This HaBO request is from Jessie, who is looking for a contemporary romance that was published in the last decade: I’m looking for a book that I read within the last 10 years. I think it was a fairly contemporary book. I’m 99% sure I read it on my Kindle, so I don’t know what the cover looks like. The heroine owns a soap (or maybe toiletries in general) store in a city (probably New … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Runs a Soap Store →

This HaBO request is from Becca. Content warning for the description below: I’ve been looking for a book for several years. It was probably published in the 80s or 90s. All I remember of the book was that there was a prologue where the rich teenage heroine was in love with this boy who lived and worked in the stables. All her friends were into him, and they had a pool going on who would … Continue reading HaBO: Stable Boy Turned Corporate Raider →

This HaBO is from Megan, who is searching for this paranormal romance: Looking for a crazy sauce lycanthrope book. The heroine somehow ends up in an alternate universe/reality where lycans are a thing. I think she runs and hides in some abandoned cabin or shed in the woods, and screams ensue when lycans come strolling in all fury half-man beast style. Turns out, in this new reality she has stumbled into (I think there was … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Cares for Sick Lycans →

This HaBO is from Katie, who was inspired to find this book after our Category Romance Rec League: The category romance rec league reminded me of a sample I read a long time ago, and I can’t remember the title or author. Google was not helpful, especially since I didn’t actually read the book. Now it’s driving me crazy. I’m kind of curious about trying category romance, but even if I never read this, it … Continue reading HaBO: A Billionaire, a Secret Baby, and a Baker →

This HaBO request is from Robin, who is looking for this contemporary romance: This has been driving me crazy. It’s an older book, maybe a series book. It’s about a woman who grew up with an abusive father. Now she owns a woman run advertising company and works mostly with women clients. A man hires the firm and wants her to handle an account. Then he wants to date her. He is persistent until he … Continue reading HaBO: Advertising Firm for and by Women →

This HaBO request is from Alyssa, who wants to find this historical romance: I’m looking for a historical romance I got from a library used book sale sometime in the early 2000s. It has a grey cover and looked benign enough that my adolescent self thought it was a fantasy novel. There might have been a sword. It took place in the middle ages in what was probably France. It turned out to be a … Continue reading HaBO: Gender-Flipped Three Musketeers →

This HaBO comes from DiscoDollyDeb, who is searching for this historical romance: Greetings Bitchery! DiscoDollyDeb here and I’m looking for a historical romance I think I read in the late 1980s or early 1990s, although it may have been published earlier. I don’t read much historical romance now, but the reason this book has stayed with me is that it introduced me to something I had no idea about: during the Civil War, the Confederacy … Continue reading HaBO: Confederates in Canada? →

This HaBO request is from Mirna, who wants to find this contemporary romance: It has been driving me nuts that I can’t remember the title of this book. It is a contemporary interracial romance. The hero is white and the the heroine is African-American. They meet when she is out celebrating, either having finished law school or taking the bar exam. He is a rookie football player out partying with friends. They meet at a … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Tattoos Heroine’s Face on His Chest →