Fawn is looking for a book that she needs for research. And re-reading, obviously.  I have been referred here and am praying you can help me as I have searched in so many ways and am unsuccessful in my attempts so far. My description is below. I believe I read it in the 90s. It was about a Saxon girl being given in marriage by her horrible father and brothers (the father and brothers are … Continue reading HaBO: Chieftan Hero Helps Heroine Escape from Family →

This HaBO request comes from Mendi, who is searching for a book that I'm betting at least 56% of you will immediately want to read:  I read this book my senior year of high school, 1994. I borrowed it from a friend and loved it, then she made me give it back to her! I've been looking for this book for almost 20 years now, so, I hope you fine ladies can help a bitch … Continue reading HaBO: He’s a Gardening Unionizing Pooka Disguising Seduction Expert! →

HaBO Time! When you can remember bits and pieces of a scene, but not the author or title, we're here to help. Because, well, the Bitchery pretty much knows everything. Today's request is from M, who writes:  Firstly,I'd like to say I love your site and I apologize for any mistakes I make. Bear with me, English is not my first language. This is the first time I contact you and I really hope you … Continue reading HaBO: Virgin Widows? Aw, Yeah. →

This HaBO is from ppyajunebug, who is looking for a book from a while ago:  Okay, so it's not 100% a romance, but it definitely has ~strong romantic elements~. This was a YA book published in the early 2000s, I believe. It took place during the Civil War- the heroine lived in northern Virginia and her older brother joins the Confederacy. At some point she meets a Union soldier, at another point she somehow gets … Continue reading HaBO: A YA from the Early 2000s Set During the Civil War →

Remember all the harem books? I was a huge crack-addicted fan of Silver Angel (though I don't think this description matches that book), and I remember a few other kidnapped-and-sold-to-a-harem stories at about the same time. TrippingOutMySoul is looking for a harem book – and I kind of like the sound of the heroine in this one:  I'm hoping you can help me identify a historical romance I read some time in the past 8 years or … Continue reading HaBO: Kidnapped and Sold to a Harem →

This HaBO request is from SusieQ, who is searching for a historical romance:  Historical, with an 'older' rogue-type hero who finds the heroine when he goes through her downtrodden (war-torn?) village. I'm pretty sure she was all alone/had been left behind somehow. Maybe her family had been killed? Anyhow, she comes from a family of stained glass artists, who I guess had made a famous stained glass dome at some point. Hero ends up taking … Continue reading HaBO: Stained Glass Secretly Made by Women →

This Help a Bitch Out request is from Nancy, who is looking for a book that is not quite a romance, but sounds completely spectacular: I have a HaBo request. The book is not strictly romance, I don't think, but I seem to recall some romancy bits in it. It's steampunk and most of the story follows an archaeologist who has come back to England after excavating dinosaur bones in America. He's got this big … Continue reading HaBO: Steampunk Archaeologists Fight Over Bones, Plus Ada Lovelace →

This request is from Ijin, who is searching for a book from long ago, about a period of time even longer ago, with redheads:  This is about a book I've read long ago, maybe in the 1990s and unfortunately I don't know the author or the title – obv, otherwise I wouldn't be bothering the bitchery. It's a medieval historical. The heroine and hero are both redheads and she seeks him out because her husband … Continue reading HaBO: Historical Red Heads Are Up to Something →

There's forced proximity, forced engagement, forced marriage by shotgun and by other duress, and now… forced to get pregnant asap! Kelly is looking for a book, and I'm hoping someone can tell me, no, really, that science is real:  I have a HABO request– it's been driving me nuts and my mad Googling/Bing skillz are no help. I read it when I was in my mid teens, so it dates from late 80s, early 90s. … Continue reading HaBO: Science? What Science? →

Min has been seeking this book for a long time – her first email to me went awry, but this one landed and oh, this book sounds fun:  I read this book back in the late 80s/early 90s (i think) but I've always been super bad about remembering titles and authors. I'm pretty sure the cover had a blonde heroine and the hero could have been Fabio. It's a little fuzzy. I want to say … Continue reading HaBO: Vikings on Ice with Ice Capades! →

This request comes from Naughty K, who read a book and has described it marvelously. I thought I knew this one, but when I went to look it up, too many details were off for me to be right. But I'm certain you will know this one.  Firstly I would like to say that I just found your site and it's awesome and one of the best sites I've come across! THANK YOU so much. … Continue reading HaBO: He Spends the Night. Sort Of. →