Andria’s Comments (group member since Jul 03, 2012)

Andria’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

A Well-Timed Enchantment

Yay! Best wishes to you and Christine. I hope y'all live (and read) happily ever after. :)

Yay! Glad to help. Here's the link: Another Shore

This cover comes to mind from your description:


I'll change your header for you so it will be more detailed. You can go in and edit it if you want. Just click "edit" next to the topic title.

Another Shore by Nancy Bond? Bit of a stretch, but maybe?

Hooray! I'll move this to solved.

I'll move it to Solved for you. Glad you found it, hope you enjoy it as much the second time around. :)

The Devil on the Road by Robert Westall?

ETA: the description on GR is a little thin, here's a more detailed one:

The Devil on the Road is set far away from the mundane war-time location of Westall’s North Shields stories, in the meandering lanes of Suffolk, where the ancient histories of villages are only a stone’s throw away from surfacing through the cobbles or the thatch or the church bell tolling. The book’s story is conjured as a spell, appropriately enough as the subject is witch-finding, which draws us in alongside John Webster, a civil engineering student who is after courting Lady Luck one idle summer by riding his Tiger Cub motorbike wherever his fancy takes him. However Lady Luck is forcing his hand: directed and pulled towards a deserted barn in the middle of a suffocating countryside, John settles in for the summer and for a series of events that attempt to divert his life-trajectory into something more rounded and committed. Magic is in the air, the locals seem to recognise him, and John temporarily swaps love of his Cub bike for love of a stray kitten. After adopting it and feeding it up, he finds that it is capable of pulling him through time into the Suffolk of 1647, the time of the arrival in that district of self-styled “Witchfinder General” Matthew Hopkins and the trial of several local women, including the Squire's clever daughter, Johanna Vavasour.

Shakyjake, I moved your post to Unsolved, where more people are likely to see it. :)

Maybe Die For Me (Romantic Suspense, #7)

"Sophie Johannson is an archeologist and a museum curator whose specialty is medieval warfare. Brought on the case for her expertise, she becomes interested in the puzzle of the killer and his use of ancient weapons and torture devices"

The Creation by Richard Pierce? First in the Frankenstein's Children series.

The Stray?

From Kirkus Review: "When Henny runs away from the old-age home (with only a penny to her name), she escapes to the beach and writes "I AM A STRAY OLD WOMAN" in the sand. Discovered by five red-haired children, the Goods, she is take home and "adopted" as their housekeeper-turned-grandmother. Neither toothache nor burglary dampens the spirit and spunk of the good-natured Henny, who introduces the children to prawn-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, grows a money plant, and ultimately wins the lottery."

Maybe Sam's Quest for the Crimson Crystal?

Maybe The Whisperer by Diane Hoh?

The Accident by Diane Hoh?

I've changed the post header for you, Becky. Good luck finding your book!

I'm going to change the status of this thread - Daelon was the OP and never confirmed it solved. And I KNOW that the book she was describing was Randy by Jack Thomas. Cynthia, a later poster, was looking for John Benton books.

ETA: Nevermind, she did call it solved, but for Jack Thomas not John Benton. I'll update the link on our bookshelf.

Jack W. Thomas also wrote a bunch of teen prostitute books during that time period. John Benton's were Christian in focus, for the most part the girls were redeemed at the end. Jack Thomas's books usually didn't have happy endings.

There's also, Steffie Can't Come Out to Play - but I don't remember how that one ends.

You may want to check out this listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton. The Beautiful and the Damned by Jessica Verday.

Obernewtyn for the link to bookel's suggestion.