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 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 Full Metal Ox, who is hoping to find this romance comic: This one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain; I recall having seen—probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on a platform other than Dreamwidth—a U.S. romance comic from the 1940s or 1950s that had an anthology host, something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorro-esque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history (and … Continue reading HaBO: Vintage Comic Search! →

This HaBO comes from longtime reader, Hanne: So, the book is quite old – I remember finding it in my parents’ bookshelf, probably during the mid-to-late-nineties, and it may be from around then or even earlier. My parents’ hardcover was in black, white, and red, I believe – but I may misremember. It was in one of the hard-to-reach shelves, which of course meant that it was one of the more interesting shelves to early … Continue reading HaBO: Wee! Woo! Bonkers Book Alert! →

This HaBO comes from Isabella, who wants to find this historical romance: The details are hazy but I remember the hero was some kind of gardener but also maybe nobility? And he was rebuilding something akin to Covent Garden or Vaxhall Gardens after a fire. It might even have explicitly been Covent Garden… There was a scene of him in the garden doing gardenery stuff with his shirt getting soaked through from the rain. I … Continue reading HaBO: Fire at the Theatre →

This HaBO is from Jesi, who wants to track down a paperback they read: The book was a random paperback but it was amazing and I re-read it so many times. This is what I remember: – Heroine’s name is Hazel and she is American. At the start of the book she’s on holiday in Europe where she meets… – The hero, whose name is Marcus. He’s rich and handsome (of course) and I think … Continue reading HaBO: Maple Syrup & Baseball →

This HaBO request is Susan, who wants to track down this historical romance: I’m looking for a historical romance I read a few years ago. The heroine answers an ad for a position (can’t recall what it was for, maybe a governess?). In reality the hero had placed the ad under false pretenses. He is really looking for a wife and is using the ad to find somebody inappropriate to his family. He decides she’s … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Needs Someone to Annoy His Family →

This HaBO is from Omphale, who wants to find this historical romance: So I was googling about the safety of leaded crystal (basically, I can use my grandfather’s leaded Edinburgh tot glasses so long as I drink quickly!) and it reminded me of this short Regency I read back in the mid-2000s (so it might have been Signet or Zebra) where all I can recall is an extremely suspect mental health “solution.” I have no … Continue reading HaBO: A Lithium-Glazed Pitcher →

This HaBO comes from Meghan, who wants to find this holiday romance: I recently moved and lost a box of books which in itself is its own disaster, but I can’t remember the name or author of a particular book I was hoping to reread. It came out pre-2021, and most likely sometime after 2015 since I got it at a Walmart somewhere between 2017 and 2020. It’s a contemporary romance, part of a series … Continue reading HaBO: An Artist Who Loves Christmas →