What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Older Adult Romance. Think it was published in the 1990s, about a retired soldier going into the jungle to rescue a woman who was being held hostage by a drug lord. Spoilers. [s]
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Hi Victoria, when do you think you may have read these books? Just to help us place what you mean by 'older' romance.
Oh right! I think it was published in the 1990s, maybe early 2000s really think it was published in the 90s.
This sounds like Linda Howard, two titles (available together in one),Midnight Rainbow for the first story, and Diamond Bay for the second. They are in her Rescue series. I read them as separate books.
That's it! Thank you so much! It was driving me crazy! Thank you! Now I have to buy all of them, Thank you so much!
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The Rescues series by Linda Howard starts with Midnight Rainbow (book 1) - M's find.
It was a double romance novel, both stories tied together. The first one was about a retired Vietnam solider, who became a man for hire, he was hired by a wealthy man to bring his daughter back from the jungle, where she was being held hostage in some drug lords plantation in the jungle. Turns out the woman already halfway had a plan to get out of there, and they ended up stuck in the jungle for several days. At one point a massive python drops on her shoulders and he kills it, she freaks out over all the blood. Cause she'd been held hostage as a child before, they bond. Hide out in a cave behind a waterfall I think for a few days. They make it out of the jungle but the drug lord finds them in some little village, she hot wires a car after watching him do it once, bad guy dies and they make it out and home safe. He then leaves her "For her own good" She doesn't like that, and ends up doing other halfway dangerous stuff, he finds her on another job months later and they stay together after that. I think the woman was in her early thirties? I don't fully remember.
Next story was about the other man's sorta boss? He was on a boat in the ocean, boat gets shot up, so does he. Ends up washed up on the shore passed out, where a woman finds him, drags him back to her house, with a stray dog she found. Nurses him back to health, they start bonding. Oh there was a vet in the story too, she helped take care of the gut shot wounds and the stray dog. She didn't have a massive role in the book. The bad guys who blew up his boat the first time, find him. He called the guy from the first story to come help, first guys now wife comes too. They all end up bunkering down in the house and having a shootout. Bad guys die, all is good. The man who was nursed back to health, leaves the woman, again with the for her own good, he isn't a good man. You know the whole shabang. She gets depressed, first man's now wife calls the other man and cusses him out and implies that his love interest is pregnant. She isn't but he shows back up at the house and they stay together after that.
The book ends with the two men sitting on a front porch of the first guys house. Kids are running around the yard and one of the wives is pregnant and they all are talking and that's it. Happy ending all around.
The cover was a ocean sunset, I think. I remember shades of orange and soft yellows. It is a older romance novel. Got it from my grandma but we can't remember the title or author. It was thicker too. Please if you can remember the name tell me, I have been trying to find my copy or a new book for years now. It haunts me and drives me up the wall not being able to remember the title.
My sister thinks these characters were side characters from a different series that people loved so the author wrote stories about them to tie it all together. But we can't remember the author or the series she thinks they are originally from.