Udas had been plodding through the muddy rice fields for a long time, and he was almost on the point of falling down through sheer exhaustion; he had to throw his boots away, for the water in the fields occasionally was knee-deep, and the boots, far from being of any help, seemed to be a great hindrance. He was very hungry—he had eating nothing for a very long time Overhead the sky was dull His long matted hair; his heavy breathings, which seemed more like the snortings of a hunted animal; his pail face; his bloodshot, sleepless eyes and his mud-bespattered dress, might have evoked the pity of even those who were hunting him down.
The events that had forced him to take this tramp were quite unforeseen. He had just joined the University, and that week-end he came down to a small town to take some of the revolutionary leaflets back with him, and to take lessons in sending telegraphic messages. He had never before been in this place—but he had been told that some comrades would meet him at the station. When he got there, however, he found things quite different; somehow the police had got a clue and they had already raided houses and made many arrests When the railway train arrived at the station he found the police were apparently on the look-out for a new-comer; Udas avoided them and got down at the next station His idea was to wait there some time and then take a train back to Calcutta; but he was very soon disillusioned, and found that it would not be possible to get back to Calcutta by the trains from that small town The police were searching every passenger very carefully and asking many questions of each one They seemed to have got hold of his photo somehow.
Without wasting his time in the difficult and almost impossible task of boarding the train at Koti, Udas decided on a better plan He would march right across the rice-fields and hit on the main railway line. He knew there were quite a number of fairly large stations along that line, and every day a very large number of passengers travel over there From what he knew, the main line was some thirty miles away. Thirty miles is not a very long distance On other occasions he had covered this distance in a single day—but this had always been on the high roads And there was one chief drawback now—he did not know very much about the way But he hoped he would soon come across some village—where there would be no vigilance from the police—and where they would give him shelter; he had always an exaggerated notion about the honesty and hospitality of the country folk.
As a rule they are not much better than others, and sometimes they are most reactionary and extremely difficult persons to deal with. Late that evening he came across one of those collections of mud huts, which are commonly called a village in this area. Every one seemed to be in bed then; only a few tumbled down huts had some brightly-lit windows In the monsoon rains the only street that the village could boast of was muddier and in a worse state than the bare fields.
It was here that Udas came to know all about the activities of the police; the village watchman—a big, stout man who continuously spat on the ground, making grimaces—told him everything: I am not going to arrest you—nor will I tell the authorities anything about you.
But, please, you must get out of here as quickly as possible—if the villagers know you will be in a difficult position. What do you thank me for? I am only doing my duty. Anyway I am not going to stop you. He was speaking so loudly that Udas thought any moment some head would be popped through one of the windows to find out the cause of the disturbance. Fortunately no such thing happened You see I have few educated gentlemen to speak to—that is why I am telling you all this. Please keep to the North Right to the North, and you will soon get to the main railway line Udas had been marching all the night.
It was now morning. He was tired, sleepy, and quite worn out. He felt he would fall asleep any moment. Once he had heard how one comrade had been caught by the police inside a cab; he had hired that cab, and the cabman at the end of his journey found his passenger fast asleep. He tried to wake him up, and when he pushed he found a revolver dropping down from one of the pockets of the sleeper The police had him without any scuffle—even This comrade had done very important work before—but he had had no sleep for two nights, that is how he came to fall fast asleep in a cap.
If only he could get a shelter Not a tree could be seen on the whole horizon. A dismal day it was; still, as he looked up, he felt after all it was not so bad. In the cities you can never realize what it means to gaze on the sky in an open countryside! There it is vast—and Udas then felt it was something more than vast, it was infinite—the eternity itself—solemn and majestic. He could never believe that the people who every day gazed on this awe-inspiring canopy could ever have mean prejudices.
He wondered how could a peasant toiling all day under the free sky ever get into the dirty, narrow mud huts and call it his home He looked on the great cornfields intently, wistfully—the wind was playing over them—it seemed to caress the gr[owing] blades of corn. They, too, [seemed to] be infinitely extensive But then how was it that the agricultural labourers were always so badly off? They toiled year in and year out—in the sun and in the rain; But in spite of all this they always remained the poorest of the poor. The profits of their honest labour went to the landlords, the middlemen, the merchants, and the speculators in corn.
It was their toil that fed the millions, but they were the half-starved. They never knew what their fate was going to be the next year A deal of the speculators may make the price of the corn go up or down They always found themselves the losers; probably that was the reason why all the peasants had been so very conservative, and why they distrusted all new innovations; they were afraid and they thought Udas knew how most of the peasants had always been in debt For a time this young University student forgot all about his fatigue—and why he was there; a strange feeling—a feeling of sadness and triumph came over him; he was glad A diseased age it was—with its burden of overwhelming sorrow—with its load of terrible injustice and monstrous oppression Yet one thing made him glad: In spite of the failures, and of the present drawbacks, the Truth will triumph and the Right will prevail.
Quite unexpectedly he found in front of him, only a few yards away The very suddenness of coming across a man so unexpectedly seemed surprisingly queer; both of them—Udas and the man with the hoe—were equally surprised; they both looked at each other for some time before they could trust their eyes. Udas said in a feeble voice: Could you find me a shelter? This fact alone would have surprised him—but last evening he had been told how a dangerous revolutionist had been near about these places.
What the profession of a revolutionist was he did not know, nor did he care—the only thing that mattered was the reward the police had offered. The peasant eyed him cautiously as if Udas was a beast of prey—he looked at the mauser revolver He had never seen a German, nor did he know why people had been saying so many things against the Germans—but in his simple mind this man thought a revolutionist would naturally have some connection with the Germans. He moved slowly towards the Temple. When he had got on the stone steps of the Temple the news of his arrival had already spread round the village.
Evidently the story of his big revolver had been circulated as well—for a big crowd soon gathered, but they kept themselves at a distance from him. A young woman had brought a red cap for her child—she thought it would be an opportune moment for her to show this new purchase to the village, and she rushed towards her home, dragging the child; the youngsters appeared in large numbers—they did not know what the commotion was about; some began clapping their hands, thinking Udas was a sweetmeat dealer.
The men, however, took the matter very seriously; they all shouted at the same time; some gesticulated wildly, throwing up their hands, and occasionally turning round to see if Udas had vanished in the earth, or had changed himself into some super-human form All this appeared extremely comic to Udas—but the crowd apparently waited for somebody, and this conjecture was true, for a few minutes later there appeared on the scene a fat well-fed person, wrapped up in a piece of cloth which had very patterns all over it.
It was no less a personage than the village priest—the commotion of the crowd went down as if by magic. The priest shouted to Udas in a growling voice to throw away the revolver and come down from the steps of the holy temple. Hell itself is too good a place for you. Tired as he was, the student wanted to tell them why he was there, and what the movement wanted to do for the peasants.
He did begin his address, and soon found how the people had given up their hostile attitude; but the priest interrupted him, shouting: You mean to say a low-caste pariah is the same as me? Some of the older people thought that before his holy anger the earth would swallow the blasphemer up.
In a voice almost choked with passion the priest demanded:. Son of a bitch! You are an atheist. We have sent for the military police You shall have a lesson soon. Already the village constable appeared One of his children had removed his baton to play at soldiers, and the futile search for this official ensignia of law and order had delayed him so long that, in his great hurry, he had no time to put on his full uniform—he had only the blue trousers on We are against the oppression of the rich and the priests He had become truly mad; his eyes seemed to be bulging out of his head.
Had it not been for the mauser revolver round the neck of the stranger, he surely would have led a bold attack of the whole village on this young blasphemer. The student saw in the distance the military police coming towards the Temple. One of them was on horseback. The floor was muddy and extremely slippery; in lifting the heavy idol up he lost his balance, and fell down on his face. A terrific sound like the explosion of a bomb immediately followed—the ten cartridges of the revolver had exploded all at once—his body was torn open.
They said that the death had not been instantaneous—someone had seen him roll round several times, and when the police officer picked up the still warm corpse he found that the face was turned toward the dark ceiling of the Temple, and there was a last linger of a faint smile left on his face. As a matter of fact the boy was not killed instantaneously; he did hear the cartridges explode, but curiously enough he did not feel any pain. Probably he lived just a fraction of a second after the explosion—but in this very small space of time he thought much.
He did not think of his comrades, nor of his own short life He saw a bat, which was hanging on the rafters inside the ceiling, flutter about, disturbed with the sound of the explosion—he smiled at its discomfitures. Suddenly the dark sooty ceiling of the Temple vanished—he seemed to see the vast horizon above him—it was all crimson with clouds painted blood-red by the sinking sun All the church organs seemed to peal this anthem, the whole of Humanity seemed to have become awake and changed this hymn; it was strange, but Udas dreamed of coming across the fat village priest in this multitudinous throng.
He smiled again, and tried to say just before his death. If they only knew No one wept for him—none seemed to regret his untimely death. Apparently no one missed this pale youth, cut down even before he had reached the prime of his life. The villagers thought that the priest would utilize the incident as an opportunity for exacting money on the pretext that the idol had been polluted; they had been quite sick of the way in which he proclaimed his superior intellect and position—but they resented most his extortions of money—he seemed never to be satisfied But the priest, on the other hand, himself had been really frightened.
He wondered if the village elders would take him to task for not locking the door of the Temple. Once they had done so—when the gold necklace of the idol was found missing—of course, the priest himself had removed it, but he innocently had declared that the door was not properly locked. But nothing serious really happened.
This incident seemed to have very little effect on the life of the village. The old monotonous cycle of dull and toilsome days went on as before. Only an old woman, who had lost her first child in a factory accident near Calcutta, could not forget this tragic incident. Years afterwards she would tell the story to her grand-children at nightfall, and would weep over it; she used to tell all about it to the strangers who happened to pass through the village. The brackets indicate places where the text was illegible.
All day long the congested traffic had made a terrible noise—and the electric cement-breakers, too, had added much to the din. Gopesh Babu, the head clerk of the contractors, McDonald and Co. He was dressed in a very thick Irish ulster—a garment that was never meant for the mild winters of Calcutta. This engineer had come from Scandinavia, and somewhere he had heard that round about Darjeeling there are fine winter sports and ski-ing every year. He hoped it would require a very thick coat to go over there to the sports.
Gopesh Babu felt very warm, but still he was uncomfortable. He had been put there that evening to catch the thief who had stolen several electric accumulators from that place the evening before. Poor Gopesh Babu was a quiet man. He could never understand why people steal. Of course the thief might have been in want; but Gopesh Babu wondered how long the man could keep himself by that sort of stealing.
He thought, too, that even a thief ought to have some respect for public utilities, and should not hamper the progress of laying tramway rails. He hoped that the thief would not turn up, at least not this evening, to take any of the things that lay scattered about. It was a bit foggy that night and old Gopesh Babu coughed; once a missionary had told him that it was the fog in the cold countries that was responsible for the scourge of tuberculosis. He lives in a big old castle with another vampire, a werewolf and a ghost.
Each of these characters brings humour to the story and are important in their own right. They balance each other out and have been friends for a long time, given the length of a paranormals life, a very long time. Their current case is troubling and not easy to solve. Paranormals are turning up dead but stranger still they are turning up with dead humans and nobody knows why.
Ben has travelled from New Zealand for an overseas experience and has settled into the small town of Flint. He works in a coffee shop and spends his spare time pursuing his passion for photography. He has spotted Simon around town and would love to photograph him but he always seems to disappear before he has the chance to approach him. When they finally get to talking it is obvious they are both attracted to each other but that attraction has to be put on hold when another murder takes place, this time it is a close friend of Simons.
Then comes the age old problem of how do you tell the poor unsuspecting human that you are a Vampire? Ben requires more proof than most and the way to do that is to share memories, he is left shocked and scared and does the one thing he promised not to and runs. When you have just found out your boyfriend is a vampire the last thing you probably want is to be talked back from the ledge by his best friend, who owns up to being a werewolf, but that is exactly what happens.
It works and Ben and Simon are reunited to work through their difficult relationship. When an enemy from the past returns it becomes clear who has been killing off the residents of Flint and for what nefarious reasons but by then it may be too late for Simon. The love from their soul bond maybe the only thing to save them now as Ben goes on a hunt for revenge.
My View — Narration: Michael Ferraiuolo is a new narrator for me and I think he did a cracking job. His English accent and the way he spoke it depicted Simon perfectly. Very easy to listen to and clear throughout the story. Oct 25, Morgan Skye rated it really liked it. Full Review Here http: Ben is a foreign student studying in America from New Zealand.
One day he sees a man who catches his eye and after seeing him several times in a row decides to approach him.
- John Calvins Commentaries On Jeremiah 30- 47!
- Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850 (The History of Retailing and Consumption)?
- 100+ Of The Best Creepypasta Stories On The Internet?
Simon is a vampire, over a hundred years old, who sees Ben and identifies him as his potential soul mate. Though Simon is lonely and happy for a chance at a life-companion, there is much in his past to suggest Ben might be better off without Simon. Eventually, the two do meet and neither can stop their attraction from blossoming into a relationship and then love. Simon must come clean and confess what he is and Ben has to accept the monster that lives inside Simon. In the meantime, Flint, their little town, is being subjected to a string of serial murders involving both humans and vampires.
Simon has to overcome his deadly addictions to save Ben and Ben has to trust that Simon is more than a victim of his desires. There is a lot of the typical lore, but some parts are newly constructed. The smexy scenes were good, and they got better as the couple got to know one another, and the romance was sweet and tender. I enjoyed the writing style very much and thought it was a refreshing. I give the story itself a 4. Michael Ferralulo is a new narrator to me, but I thought he did a good job. He tried to alter the voices so that each sounded unique and I could easily differentiate who was speaking based on his voice modulation alone.
One big complaint I had was Ben. Ben was from New Zealand, used New Zealand vernacular, and was only studying in America a short time but Michael gave him a flat American accent. Simon is British and has a lovely British accent. It would have felt more authentic if Ben had an accent. Overall, he did a solid job and I would listen to another narration by him in the future. I give this narration a 3 of 5 stars. This review can be found at The Blogger Girls review site. But things go beyon This review can be found at The Blogger Girls review site.
But things go beyond Simon and Ben when the number of crime scenes featuring dual murders of a vampire and human starts to escalate out of control. I have to admit, that recap is a little weak on explanations. Simon is very old-fashioned and honestly, a little awkward.
More From Thought Catalog
While I liked the story, I had several issues with it. I would have liked to experience this romance that took place behind doors. Not to mention a few other scenes that were never shown, like how Simon was cured, the time after the incidents, Ben talking to his grandfather, etc. Beyond that, I felt like the mystery was a little too nicely wrapped up and easily fixed not to mention I found it odd that it was never mentioned how the vampires were murdered.
Still, with all that, I found I enjoyed the story. While much of the romance is done off page, it still felt like there was a slow build up to Simon and Ben getting together, which I really liked. The characters are also intriguing with Simon being very old-fashioned and Ben more modern. This audiobook was provided to me by the publisher through Hearts on Fire Reviews in exchange for an impartial review. Ben Leyton was restless when he completed his university degree, and on the advice of his grandfather, decided to take a trip to the US, specifically to Flint, Ohio.
His grandfather had been there as a young man and told Ben that it he loved it and hoped Ben would too. Simon Hawthorne lives in Flint, Ohio and has for many decades. Together, they form a task force to police the supernaturals in the town, making sure the community stays safe for not only their kind but mankind as well. They are currently on the trail of a serial killer who is killing his victims in pairs— one human and one vampire.
Eventually, the two do meet and go out together and ultimately fall in love. If anything, the two become closer, with each realizing the other is his soulmate. But the danger is still there, and the action steps up in the latter part of the book when both Ben and Simon are put in danger. This was an interesting story but was difficult to follow at the beginning. I suspect that was because it was an audiobook and with such a large cast of characters, in addition to the setup for the world-building, it was confusing to listen to.
At about the midpoint of the story, it became much more interesting, and by the end, with all of the danger and action scenes, I was looking forward to an exciting conclusion. The narrator did a great job with the MCs accents and the voices of the various featured secondary characters. However, the story lacked a certain depth or maturity, and I found that I had to suspend belief in a few areas. Though I was looking forward to an action-packed scene for the culmination of the hunt for the murderer, it was quite mild, very simplistic, and definitely fell short of my expectations.
As I stated, the narration is very good— Michael Ferraiuolo is getting to be one of my favorite narrators. If you are considering this story, then I definitely recommend it in audio. Sep 14, GayListBookReviews rated it really liked it. A very sweet, extremely cute, delightfully loving start to a paranormal series.
With a cast of vampires, werewolves, a ghost and a beloved Kiwi soul mate. Ben is a very nice young man from New Zealand who has no idea that vampires, shifters and other beings of legend exist outside of the graphic novels he enjoys. Simon is a traditional British gentleman who has lived through wars and suffered many losses while his body kept the appearance of the twenty-two year old young man who was turned into a A very sweet, extremely cute, delightfully loving start to a paranormal series. Simon is a traditional British gentleman who has lived through wars and suffered many losses while his body kept the appearance of the twenty-two year old young man who was turned into a vampire a hundred years ago.
Ben has come to Flint, Ohio on his OE overseas experience after finishing his degree. A sweet and friendly Kiwi, he's found a job at a cafe that allows time for his passion of photography. Spending time taking photos in the park led him to meeting Simon. As the two dance around the intense attraction that's hampered by Simon's odd secrecy and behavior they find that they can't seem to get enough of each other.
Simon's never fallen so hard or fast, but he knows that Simon was meant to be his. Simon knows exactly who Ben is from the first moment he sees him. He just has to decide if he can survive risking his heart by loving a fragile human, soul bond or not. Afraid to lose Ben when he finds out about the vampire thing, the courtship progresses with coffee and dinner dates, allowing not just the attraction to build, but also the friendship.
I liked these guys, and their friends. Simon is part of a team that helps investigate paranormal happenings, and at times deal with them. I am so excited to read more of these guys in the following books. They each deserve their own story, and happy ending. I really enjoyed the world building in this story. The authors' takes on some of the traditional myths were fun and added a sense of individuality to this world.
The blending of our reality with the one in Flint was well done and pretty logical, if needing a tinge of suspension of disbelief. There was something that I felt was hinted at with some of the comments and occurrences in the story that never happened. A little niggle, it's left an itch and sense of things not finished.
It seemed, to me at least, that there was an aspect of their reality that even the author wasn't sure about that made me feel slightly less satisfied with their romance. I enjoyed the heck out of their story and read it all in one sitting and I'm planning to read the next book as soon as possible. Mar 24, Melanie rated it liked it Shelves: Review at All About Romance - http: In the small town of Flint, Ohio, the townsfolk have many secrets. The victims are paired off, one vampire and one human, and it looks more like a murder-suicide than anything else.
But there are hunters involved, supernatural hunters, who know that there is more going on than it seems. Simon Hawthorne, vampire, and his friends are working to uncover the killer before the next victims are found. Unfortunately for Simon, he has a bit of a complication, one Ben Leyton. Ben has only been in Flint a short while, but he and Simon were drawn to each other immediately. Ben knows that Simon has secrets, most people do, but he has no idea just how big those secrets are.
But being soul-bonded, love at first sight,etc Honestly, the things that bothered me the most were twofold: Add in Ben and you have a bit of all the different mentioned races in town! Second, the villain and the mystery seemed under-utilized in the grand scheme of things. The end was a smidge anticlimactic, with how the mystery wrapped up, and the story just Feb 03, Monika rated it really liked it Shelves: The romance part is cute and the mystery about the serial killer is good but it did need something more. The secondary characters, except for one of course, could all handle their own stories and I would look forward to reading them.
I felt the chemis 3. I felt the chemistry between Simon and Ben and knew right from the beginning they belonged together. The mystery of the serial killer could have been handled better. It started out like it would be a big part of the story but I found it inconsistent and waned between important and something to fill the pages around the love story of Simon and Ben.
I expected more and was hoping for a big conclusion, it all seemed a bit too quick and easy. Over all I enjoyed reading Shades of Sepia and await its sequel. Feb 24, Gillian Kevern rated it really liked it Shelves: I really enjoyed reading Shades of Sepia! I thoroughly enjoyed all the little details of Ben's accent and phrasing causing confusion, his ringtone, 'flat white' Even the difficulties of coordinating a Skype chat across differing time-zones really spoke to me, and made it easy for me to get immersed in the story.
Simon and Ben held my attention throughout, and I really enjoyed the latter half of the I really enjoyed reading Shades of Sepia!
Simon and Ben held my attention throughout, and I really enjoyed the latter half of the book as their relationship allowed them to support each other and communicate around Simon's vampirism. The action at the end was compelling and travelled along at a fast pace, while the love scenes were romantic and sweet. I found the ending satisfying. The only reason that this is a 4 and not a 5 is just that the pacing felt a little off during the courtship phase, and that the attack on the villain at the end felt too easy, and there were a few loose ends -- although given that this is the first book in a series, I anticipate having to revisit this opinion!
There were all personal preference things, and I strongly urge anyone who enjoys paranormal romance with vampires to check this book out. The vampire-lore that Barwell has created here is unique and I loved the use of mirrors, silver and viruses within the story. I will definitely be reading more of her works!
Feb 05, Jana Denardo rated it really liked it Shelves: Blends of mystery and urban fantasy are one of my favorite things to read. He came here following his grandfather's footsteps and at his suggestion. He's also a photographer. He tries to photograph a man he thinks is following him without success. Later the man introduces himself, Simon, a professor at the local university. For his part, Simon is working with his partners and housemates, Forge and Lucas to sol Blends of mystery and urban fantasy are one of my favorite things to read.
So, the girl dressed up, pretending to be a boy and went to meet their newly appointed guardian. The Duke, trying to "man up" his new feminine looking ward took him her to a bordello very comical and that was where he found out that he was actually a she!! He ended up marrying her and then had her twin brought back from the ship he was on.
I think the girl's name was Alyssa and her twin was Nicky. There is more to the story but any help you can give would be appreciated.
- Get A Copy.
- Search form;
- Fairy Tail Vol. 19?
I've been looking for this book for a while but couldn't find it. I don't remember a lot of details. It's about a model coming back to her hometown. The book starts with her speeding when she's going into town. The male character is a cop and they went to high school together. Any help finding this book would be greatly appreciated! I'm looking for a book about a woman who is married with a small daughter. She is hit by a car, I believe, and dies while in the hospital. But, she decides that it's not her time yet and takes over the body of a single woman who was also injured.
She recovers from her new body's injuries and finds her husband and daughter to check up on them they end up becoming friends and more. In the end, the husband finds out or she tells him what happened and after a while they end up back together. I believe it was a Silhouette or Harlequin. I am in need of your help! I have been trying to figure out the title of a book.
Here is a summary of what I remember of the plot Ringing any bells for anyone? I am a newbie here The heroin however disguised herself as a normal girl and work at a ranch. She likes all the heavy machinery used at the ranch. The hero is her boss and owner of the ranch. He treats her like his other worker and has a girlfriend i think. The girlfriend is very vain and the heroin notice that his girlfriend pretends to be trendy but actually she is not. I have been looking for a specific romantic book for ages.
I came across this site today and thought I would give it a try. I think he has nightmares and the girl tries to help him with that. I am not so sure on the specifics. So some of the above could be totally imaginary. I hope someone can help me! I came across this site today and hope someone can help me.
Here's what I remember: The heroine is from France, an orphan, goes to love with her uncle? Her cousin is an heiress. The hero is poor nobility and must marry for money. He visits the uncle's estate with his two friends to court the cousin. One of the hero's friends helps set her up with a shop in London where she resells dresses.
Thanks so much for the help! I'm glad I found this thread. I'm new to posts like these so bare with me. I've been trying to find the name of this book for a long time now and it's driving me crazy. I don't remember much of the plot of the story or the names of the characters 'coz I read this book a while back. What I do remember though is that this book is kinda on the adult romance genre. The story starts where a beautiful virgin young woman daughter of a man of power - probably a politician gets raped by a fat, short and old diplomat not really sure if he's a diplomat but he scares the girl by saying she can't tell anyone 'coz he has immunity in that country.
After being raped she is kidnapped by the same diplomat but she gets saved by a man love interest 1 but then she gets caught again by the diplomat and after some time saved by another man love interest 2. She then gets abducted by tribal people and she was deemed to be "the one" deity or something maiden or sun goddess because of her beauty.
Love interests 1 and 2 joins this ritual and 2 wins and they escape from the tribal people. Going back to civilization she gets confronted by the two love interests to choose between them who she loves most. She chooses love interest 1 but near the end she realizes, she loves love interest 2 more so she leaves 1 for 2 and they live happily ever after.
I forgot most of the scenes and it was a thick book so there were a lot of scenes I forgot I wanna read them again but I just can't remember details that will lead me to the book. I don't know if what I read was already an omnibus or just a very long novel. New to this, but hopefully someone can help! I've tried searching for this book, but Google is failing me. It's a regency romance novel. He takes her to his country home, and she gets along with his staff. Possibly something about her organizing his library. She gets pregnant, but hides it from him. He takes her back to London, and she continues to hide the pregnancy from him she's miserable in the carriage ride to town -- I think because she's trying to be the perfect ton wife.
Her morning sickness gets so bad that she avoids callers; and then she's still so tired in the afternoon, that she cleverly avoids social calls and stays home to be well enough to go out for evening events tells Lady A that she'll be at Lady B's musical, tells Lady B she'll be elsewhere, etc. When her husband realizes that he is in love with her, he tries to track her down in the afternoon, going from point A to B to C, etc.
They both profess their love, he takes her back to the country, and everything ends well. Hi guys I'm new here! I need help finding this book. I of course can't remember the name of the book or author or even character names but heres what I do remember: The woman moves in with the cowboy, I think she works at a theater, or maybe she's a mail order bride, but the cowboy pretends to be his twin brother throughout the story, who she eventually falls in love with. I remember there was an Indian couple living in the back yard and she helps the woman give birth.
Also, at the end of the book is when she finds out that the guy has been playing as his rough and tough twin brother. If theres any way you can help me it would be much appreciated!!! She ends up falling in love with 'Lucas Holt' who had a twin brother 'Slade Holt'. Slade was brought up by Indians and is the rougher of the two.
Lucas pretends to be both Lucas and Slade throughout the book to lure an enemy out of hiding. Hi all, I'm new to the group and the site. Hoping someone can help me with the title or author. It's historical fiction possibly regency. She literally stumbles over unknown man, drunk, and he proposes. After being chastised again at home she takes him up on his offer. Turns out he is nobility. Jan 6, , 9: Hero needs to marry and produce an heir to secure estate. Her father is getting remarried to a shrew. It seems like both threads are active now!
I'm a noobie, but here goes Medieval setting, published in late 90's or early 's I think --Two or three related books--one has a heroine named Judith, she marries beneath her somewhat, to a fairly impoverished noble family. Her husband had mistresses he called by days of the week and she burned up their bed so he knew she wouldn't put up with it. The family's name had falcon in it, I think.
Another related one same author, some shared characters was about the impoverished knight's little sister, named Zerah or something similar, who had always dressed as a boy and learned to fight like a knight. She is bested in a fight or something, and the other knight knows at once she is a woman though no one else, even her sister in law from the other book, don't know.
I hope someone knows these! This is so amazing, how some people know all of them! I had actually accidentally posted in another thread, and someone answered anyway, people are nice: I need help finding the title of this book! Hopefully someone could help me - you all seem to have excellent memories. Its a fairly recent book I believe. But she has a big heart and is going to school to become a teacher. Things come to head when the sister gets sick. The real story is that the bf tried to have sex with the h, fed up with the spoiled nature of the sister, believing that the kind and sweet nature of the h was more his speed, but she denied him.
The bf goes off in a rage and promptly breaks up with the sister, spouting about how much better a person the h is than her, alluding that they had had sex. The sister runs to her brother, the H telling him how awful her friend, the h, is for sleeping with her bf. He tells her off, yelling about how they took her in and were kind to her, all the while she was a cheating backstabber, etc.
Realizing that she had just been kidding herself and would never be good enough for the H, she leaves for a teaching job in Texas? Things quickly fall apart between the H and his sister, especially as she realizes that the was probably wrong and took her anger out on the wrong person. The sister grows up and decides to become a nurse. Meanwhile the h is teaching in Texas where she is stabbed accidentally by a street kid when she gets in the middle of a fight. The H and the sister fly to her aide and bring her back to the ranch against her will. During her recuperation thats when the h and the H make up.
Hoping someone can help me out with this. I read a book as a teenager it might have been either a young adult or a general romance book about a girl who goes out west dressed as a boy. Unfortunately, I don't remember many details from it -- I think it had a mostly white cover with drawn characters in brown tones.
It was probably from the early s, although it could have been the late s as well. It might have been a series book Harlequin, or something similar. The girl is traveling with a group, and she of course likes one of the guys, who might have been the guide possibly on the Oregon Trail. He only realizes she is a girl when he's helping her up some obstacle, like a hill, and his arm grazes her chest.
I read the beginning at the library as a kid and never finished it, but it stuck with me, as you can see! Thanks for any leads. I'm struggling to find the name of this book.. This guy had an operation during which he tied his tubes ergo he can't have children. Then he enters a shop one day, a few years later and happens to look at her screensaver and find an image of a child that looks almost alike to him when he was a child I keep getting confused with storylines similar to this one.
Look for the name and author of a romance i read over 10 years ago and it was an older book then, i'm thinking Romance story that the woman of the book was a reporter and while trying to get an interview with someone she gets bitten by a dog. He has a baby left at his door. It's an old harlequin romance novel i believe 's in which the hero and heroine fall in love but unfortunately before anything can come out of it the hero's adopted father asks him to return home to marry his daughter who does not have long to live. Suffice it to say the hero's wife dies after two years and leaves him with a daughter.
The hero immediately hops on a plane to go back to the heroine however the plane crashes and the hero receives terrible burns and has to undergo plastic surgery. When the hero is finally reunited with the heroine who is an author or publisher she tells him she has a three year old son. The hero wants to be with her but doesn't know how to tell her about his situation. The hero's father- in- law meets him and the heroine learns about everything and runs away telling the hero she wants nothing to do with him.
The hero's daughter's name is Anna and I think the hero also had a mole on his back that was removed during his operation. Anyone having an idea or think the book I'm referring to then please let me know. I'm looking for the title of a romance book where she goes on a trip with a girlfriend, there is a hurricane and then she is all of a sudden in medieval times.
There are two more books to this series and I would love to read them all. I read this book years ago and cannot remember the name of it. I remember that the man was a lawyer who sided with the woman's husband and won the case, then they meet years later. The woman does not like corsets or lawyers. The story takes place in the U. I only read it once and started thinking about it and would like to read it again, please help me. I read this in the 80s. It was part of a "Historical" series like Harlequin.
Some of the "men" get together to see if someone can get her to say yes to a marriage proposal. There is a broke Scotish Laird in town who is trying to arrange money to help his clan. One night she is going back home from a dinner and her carriage is attacked and he protects her. She finds out about the bet and tries to leave him, but he says the bet was for him to ask he didn't have to break it. So they get married.
He takes over the finances for the two of them. Something happens on her estate but I can't remember what.
Name That Book cont. Part II
At their first dinner party she has the bagpipes pipe the guests into dinner but it is not appreciated by the guests. She has scars on her back from where her father would use a whip on her. Eventually she is pregnant and they decide to move the entire clan to Canada because she wants the baby to be born in their new home. If someone knows of this book, I would be grateful for the title. Trying to find a western historical romance about a guy who falls in love with his best friend's sister.
The brother ends up dying in a lab fire and the guilt breaks up the couple. I think there might be the word stars in the title. Potentially from the s. I think it had a blue cover. Cannot remember the author or name of book. Read a book a couple months ago - guy and girl known each other long time, meet up at I believe a friend, maybe family members wedding - great weekend after he tells her to leave or else - she stays; girl gets pregnant and guy demands 1 week to show her he'll be good to her.
I think he didn't think he was worthy, but she's always been drawn to him. Maybe her family was wealthy? I can't remember - any help - greatly appreciated. I'm looking for this book I read about 10 years ago. It's about this female author who teaches a writing class in her free time. She's a bit stuck with this one book she's writing since her editor doesn't like the way she writes her sex-scenes.
Therefore by chance she decides to take sex lessons from this cop in her writing class I know it was in-return-for-something or other but can't remember the particulars. Read the book in dutch, and it's title was along the lines of "Lessons in love". Does anyone have a clue? Help would be appreciated: I need help trying to find a book I read sometime between years ago. I think it might be a harlequin. A girl is delivering something to a wedding maybe a cake? She gets shot at while leaving. A cop happens to be there and lands on her while protecting her.
Of course there's chemistry, he ends up protecting her. That's about all I remember. I'm pretty sure though that in the first scene when he is covering she ends up with an orgasm. The h owns a book shop or house in, I think, London. He arrived late at night, having traveled from another town. He overcomes it and, voila, HEA. Jan 23, , Was it Caroline by Willo Davis Roberts? Hi, I'm looking for a romance book that starts out with a man about to hang for piracy I believe and then he escapes and hides in some caves on the coast, a young woman lives in a convent above the caves and I'm not sure if she discovers him or if he kidnaps her but they end up together and she can't decide if she wants to stay with him or turn him in?
Does this sound at all familiar to anyone? It's been driving me nuts not being able to find it. Jul 30, , Hello everyone,does anybody know the title of this book? I think it's a harlequin. I can't remember the reason why the hero and heroine got married, all i remember is that the heroine left the hero to live somewhere near a beach. So, the hero decides to get to know her again. When they meet not sure if at the beach or a restaurant at the beach they pretend they don't know each other and that they are meeting for the first time, they get along well and have a relationship. So happy to have found this group!
I read a romance years ago that I have never forgotten. Unfortunately, I did forget the title and author. I am hoping someone here can help me fill in the blanks. I am pretty sure it was a Harlequin. It was about this woman who had an aunt and uncle who were giving her some kind of pill to make her forget her husband. He finds her and of course she doesn't know him, but in the end she remembers. I believe there was some bad weather, too, maybe snow.
So glad I found this site. I hope someone can help me find this book, it's been 15 years since I read it but it has always stuck with me. The book I'm looking for was possibly published in the 's - 's. It was set in England if memory serves me correctly, 17th or 18th century? The heroine bares a striking resemblance to the estranged 'wife'. He assaults the heroine as he spots her near his home or possible on his estate thinking she's the estranged wife wanting to punish her for leaving him and his young son but is horrified when he realises that the heroine was telling the truth and is an innocent.
The heroine also has a slight limp, an injury she suffered when she was a child and I think walks with a cane. After attacking her he takes her to his home and to tries to redeem himself in her eyes not sure if he is titled, I'm assuming he is and she meets his son. Any thoughts would be most helpful.
I'm hoping somebody can help me! I'm pretty sure the book was a harlequin book. All I remember is that the heroine knew the hero while she was growing up. I think he might have been her brothers friend or something? She developed a crush on him and years later ends up working for him.
He started to become attracted to her but still thought she was just a little girl even though she was all grown up. Any help would be deeply appreciated! I read this book in 03ish and it was old then so I dont really know the publish year. Medieval romance, kinda cheesy. Redhaired maiden given away to be wed as part of kings orders. Gets sent away to filthy castle run by awful lord. He finds her and starts to fall in love with her. I believe the book went back and forth between his pov and hers. The cover was blue and whiteish. Thats all i have. Community please help i am looking for two historical romance titles book 1 i believe takes place is scotland or england during midieval times.
The hero is a twin but was an outcast because twins were believed to be evil so his brother was chosen to rule while he was a warrior the heroine was arranged by her brother or stepbrother to marry the ruling twin but she falls for the brooding hero warrior instead. At first the hero does not want anything to do with her but falls in love with her. Also the brother that was marrying her did not want her and ended up with a amid. Book 2 A preacher on a wagon train the heroine was a piano player for a travelling cathouse. Thought she was a hooker but she wasnt there was kids that they were putting with families and one of the girls became a second wife to religious guy.
There was a fire and the cat house burned. Okay I'm looking for a book from Harlequin Romance its Like a Special Romance Edition or Something where the heroine is a woman football coach who has been hired to coach a high school football team but the man that wanted the position is angered but they end up assisting each other. This woman doesn't let anyone know that she has MS Multiple Sclerosis and many accidents occur when she loses mobility in her legs.
Two specific scenes that stick out to me is when she starts dating the other assist coach and they go to his family's home for a picnic and she plays basketball with them and she loses mobility in her legs and then that time she collapse in the teams locker room and the players find her.
Does anyone know what the title and who the author is? Jan 30, , 3: I am looking for a book which I read a few years ago; a historical romance. I am almost sure that the book was a prequel to other books. The heroine in this book was a vicar's daughter who met a titled man at an event which she attended with chaperones and a suitor. She and the man had sex the first time they met at the event and she later found out that the man was supposed to be betrothed to her friend.
She snuck away another time to meet up with him. I think her sister ended up getting married to his brother or friend in a sequel. I'm still looking for my book. The description is up in post 8. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help. But now, as she travels to Oregon in disreputable company, the stunning Irish songbird's cherished independence is threatened by irresistible desires for a handsome young preacher.
Hi, Further to my post , could anyone please provide me with helpful search websites ie similar to allreaders. I've looked at a few but no luck. Come across a few but nothing that matches. It was "With this Ring" by Mary Wibberley. I used the search on vintageromances and found it. I do not remember much, I read it about ten or so years ago. It is set in the U.
+ Of The Best Creepypasta Stories On The Internet | Thought Catalog
The woman never wore corsets, was for women's rights, had a husband who hired his friend to represent him , she was made out to have been unfaithful towards her husband and was divorced. I do not remember why it came about but the husband's friend, who was a lawyer met her after a few years, he knew what the husband was like but still represented him.
Something happened in the book were they got together to investigate or fix a problem, I am not sure, but there was a plot outside of their love life. I must have read it pre-Warrior's Song as the original title was Chandra. It's Wife in the Shadows by Sara Craven - if anyone is interested. I'm looking for a book, under Harlequin i think. The things i remember: She inherited a business, from an aunt i believe, who died at the start of the story 3.
Hero is the business partner, so he is not happy with it 4. The heroine had a finace is a professor whom she broke up with because she caught him cheating with a student in his office for the grade. She tries to assembe a tent a product of the company using the instructions but can't because she said it lacks visuals or something like that.
No wonder i had difficulty finding it, it's not harlequin and it wasn't from an aunt. Feb 11, , 5: The Wedding in White. The first book in her Welcome to Tyler series. Feb 12, , Do you perhaps recall any of the character names? I have a book I read years ago and cannot remember title or author. The heroine is a criminal and has be caught or being transported by the hero. He is somehow injured and they end up in a cave with her saving his life instead of her escaping. Feb 16, , 4: Feb 17, , 8: Looking for a contemporary romance I read in the past 10 years, probably more like 5 or 6.
It was a hardcover, not pb series. It was set in England, smaller village.
Touchstones
Hero had bought large house in the area, I think. Typical remote, alpha type. Hero and heroine become acquainted, can't remember how. Something to do with property, gardening. I think his house has a large greenhouse that she borrows? Ending involves a gardening show, TV interview?
That's all I can recall Looking for a romance book that was about a girl who was told in error that her twin brother was killed by an Earl? They rand up getting married after the Earl sees how many family members she has and wants a family. The story revolves around the Earl's bastard brother trying to kill him. Saxan Honey Todd tries to kill Botolf, Earl of Regenford when her cousins bungle telling her what happened.
Feb 19, , 7: Takes place in Civil War era. A white woman is mistaken as a slave because she has black hair. Midnight Slave by Rochelle Wayne. Now if all the books I can't remember where that easy! It sounds like part of the novel Remembrance. It started off in modern times. The heroine is a romance novelist Ok, please please please help me!!
The novel was set originally in London, not sure exact time frame but I would say s. The heroine was redheaded I think, and very slim, like, not curvy at all. She was from a plantation island in the Caribbean and her father ran the plantation, I think he dies and she is sent to London to live with someone, maybe a distant old cousin or aunt. The aunt wants her to hook up with her nephew, very distant relations. The heroine can't take control of her plantation without a husband, in her father's will I think.
She hates London, doesn't fit in, isn't 'girly' enough and is always cold, hating the climate. The 'hero' has some issues of his own, and for some reason agrees to marry her and go back with her, but he is super pissy about it. He is a jerk, he verbally abuses her and when she is almost raped by a crew member on the ship back to the island, he rescues her but then blames her for it as she is so manly she spends time in pants on the boat and such. Eventually, they make it to the island, there is big struggle there as the plantation has issues.
I think there is a neighboring plantation owner, a woman who is competition and i think the 'hero' has an affair with her even. There is also an evil pirate in the mix, who eventually kidnaps the hero just as the couple are starting to get along. The pirate is Hispanic and has an African concubine, I vividly remember a scene where they are making love and then he gives her a ruby and diamond necklace. Pretty sure the heroine eventually actually rescues him. It was my mother's book and I read it when I was fairly young way to mess with a girl's head at a young age, but I digress , I am thinking I read it mid 90s Hi all, So I really need some help finding a book that my friend was telling me about.
So she ended up taking charge.
They are attacked by an army, Saxon I think, and the army offers to have a duel between their leader and someone from the kingdom, to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. So the heroine dresses as a knight and goes out to fight him. The army laughs because she is so small, but they don't realize she is a woman. So they fight and he wins, naturally, but during or after the fight her helmet is knocked off and they realize she's a woman. So they take over the kingdom and he makes her his servant but she hates him.
And she hides everynight somewhere that only she knows or something. If you have any ideas that would be great!! Gonna try again and hopefully I will remember before someone can answer like last time!! D Took place in Civil War in the south. I know there is more to it but that much I can remember. I found it the other day but neglected to write it down as I was looking for something else at the time.
As they're about to get married the castle is besieged and the attackers tie him up in the dungeons. She cares for him and he gets a little better, but she leaves because she believes he's dead. A few years later, she's getting married to someone else she doesn't love. The gentleman, who survived the attack but believes she betrayed him, comes and steals her away on his horse.
She cooks, cleans, keeps house with the staff. He has sex with her when he visits. She gets pregnant but she doesn't want to tell him because she's worried he'll take her children away, but she still loves him. Finally he takes her to court and someone tries to attack her and the gentleman saves her. But in the process realizes she's pregnant and they decide to stay together.