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Is it historical or contemporary? Scary or romance? Anything you can remember about the cover?


I read a historical romance years ago & only remember the plot, not the title or the author. Here is the plot points that I remember:
A young woman over hears her sister's finance asking her parents to marry her instead of her sister. Her parents talk bad about her, to discourage the finance from changing his mind. She doesn't know that they are lying & decides to run away. She ends up swimming through the moat & hiding in a cart of wool heading to a market. The cart gets stolen by a neighboring clan. The clans don't like each other. She ends up staying & falls in love with the leader of the other clan.

Me too! It's been driving me nuts for years.


It's set in Scotland (historical romance) and in order for the heroine to claim her inheritance, she needs to have a baby. So she sets about looking for the right man for the 'job' and comes across a complete rake of a man (English dandy, tall, ridiculously good-looking, dark, rich etc). He finds her refreshing and sets out to woo her as a challenge for himself. She finally relents and gets married to him, but she makes it known to him that she doesn't want a relationship with him, just a baby. Meanwhile he has just about fallen in love with her and tries quite hard to romance her and get her to fall in love with him as well.
I do remember that she had long red hair, she always traveled with her childhood nanny and she had a fiesty spirit to match her raving hair. I think that her name may have been Shannon, and the Englishman was a Lord or something.
I've been trying to look for this book for the past 5 years and I cannot remember the title!

I'm looking for a (romantic) needle in a haystack. Back in the 90s I read two books in a series about a small rural area in the 19th-century mid-west. I can't recall the plots, but they were cute, quaint little romances about finding love in frontier land. I remember the covers looked like cross-stitch patterns. They were "wholesome" (for want of a better word), but not religious. They were released around the same time as the old Fabio romances.
Since I don't even have a character name to go by, Googling hasn't been very helpful so far. I'd like to get back into romances and if I could, start with re-reading these books. I'll take any guesses you have!

Woman has a shop ...mostly "curiosities" type of thing on a pier in a city/town that wants to get rid of all the shops there and go to upscale/urbane renewal kind of thing. Heroine kind of watches over other shopkeepers, including one who has a parrott. Hero inherits/maybe buys the pier.
Niggling in the back of my mind is that heroine may relocate and gets into aromatherapy/soaps/lotions, etc.....BUT my poor brain may be confusing two different storylines.

I'm looking for a (romantic) needle in a haystack. Back in the 90s I read two books in a series about a small rural area in the 19th-century mid-west. I can't recall the plots, but they we..."
Sorry I have no clue. But good Luck!

Woman has a shop ...mostly "curiosities" type of thing on a pier in a city/town that wants to get rid of all the shops there and go to upscale/urbane ..."
Don't know on this one either. But I do hope someone does. Good Luck!

Yeah, I think I'm out of luck with such a vague memory of the books. Thanks for your response!



It's set in Scotland (historical romance) and in order for the heroine to claim her inheritance, she needs to have a baby. S..."
I know its been a long time after your post. Hope you found the book title. If not, it sounds to me likeTender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey
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Tell us everything you can remember about the book and maybe someone here can help you!