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Help! I can't remember the name of this book...

You can join any group, but I'm happy to post it. I'll let you know if someone knows it.

So I'm going to be honest, in the email for the notification it only showed the first part of your response, and I thought, though I've checked google advance search many times, I'll check it by hero name.
And The Steele Trap came up! Omg, I feel so foolish. Thank you Amber for finding it and making me realize I need to be vaguer in my searches! Ugh! WHY is this book only $45+ used? Whew found it on ebay. Hope it's good as I remember!

You're welcome. Glad I could help. I saw that price on Amazon. That one's not bad. You should see some of the other harlequin's that moron's have listed for $900 and above. I can think of other things to spend my money on.

It's on Open Library so don't pay anything. You just need to register and read.
open library.com

Also just finished wht the greek cant buy. I loved the heroine. Any pointers to books with heroines who a..."
A Marriage Fit for a Sinner Starts with hero getting out of jail - I would also read Brunetti's Secret Son - second in the series
Playing the Dutiful Wife / Expecting His Love-Child In Playing the Dutiful Wife, hero is framed and sent to jail.
The Greek's Pleasurable Revenge & Imprisoned by the Greek's Ring
Sounds like you might like Maya Blake books. If you like What the Greek Can't Resist, I would read the other two in the series.

Harlequin has the BLAZE imprint - a little racier romances than HPs. They are not my cup of tea but you could have a loo..."
I am not a bdsm fan either... just experimenting... Thanks for the suggestion...

Taken Over by the Billionaire has some spanking - I reviewed it at the time as one of the worst books I'..."
Thanks for the suggestion... Just experimenting but i might dnf those later... cause it was not my thing ...

A Marriage Fit for a Sinner Starts with hero getting out of jail - loved this one
I would also read Brunetti's Secret Son - second in the series let me look for this
Playing the Dutiful Wife / Expecting His Love-Child In Playing the Dutiful Wife, hero is framed and sent to jail.
The Greek's Pleasurable Revenge
Imprisoned by the Greek's Ring
Sounds like you might like Maya Blake books. If you like What the Greek Can't Resist, I would read the other two in the series.
Thanks liked ari story and theos story.

Taken Over by the Billionaire has some spanking - I reviewed it at the time as one of the worst books I'..."
Thanks for the suggestion... Just experimenting but i might dnf those later... cause it was not my thing ...


Nicole Loring was determined to find out what happened to her brother and nephew. With nowhere else to turn, she enlisted the help of the last man she
should trust, a highs respected police detective who was behaving suspicious...

More Than You Know by Helen R. Myers

The Italian Billionaire's Pregnant Bride ow Grazia is married to his brother. Tries to reconcile with the H, Sergio because the brother is now broke. Yes the h helps the brothers to reconcile. His brother, Abramo has leukaemia.
That is not the main story, which is the h is a cleaner at the H's office and she has been playing chess against him, without him knowing how is moving the chess pieces. h and H have a one night stand after playing chess and the H's watch goes missing. He blames the h who is a falsely accused ex-con.


Se wrote: "Gracie707 wrote: "I’m looking for a HP book I read in the 2000’s. The Hero had lost his inheritance and his fiancee to his stepbrother. Now that he is richer then his brother the ex-fiancée wants t..."
Thank you. I’m going to re-read it today.

Thank you.


Could it be Purchased: His Perfect Wife by Helen Bianchin?
Wife bought and paid for!
Lara Sommers's beloved restaurant is in crisis. There's only one man who can help-- Wolfe Alexander, her tall, dark, brooding stepbrother. Wolfe lives up to his name: he demands that, in exchange for his money, Lara must become his convenient wife!
With no choice but to accept Wolfe's terms, Lara is soon swept into his world of high- society glamour beyond her wildest dreams-- and into the passion of his bed. But there is just one thing missing--her husband's love....
Legally wed, but he's never said, "I love you."


The Disobedient Mistress

Thanks for the suggestion I will check it out.


Did you look up a list of LG books? https://www.fictiondb.com/author/lynn...
Quite a common trope.
Flora's Defiance
Married by Arrangement
An Arabian Marriage

sounds like Bond of Hatred except H's brother does not die but reconciles with his wife



So the heroine is alone and has no family. She has had some bad experience with fiancé and just wants a baby now. She works for her best friends brother goes and asks him to give a baby to which he gets really shocked and reacts badly but later agrees. They spend time together and he decides to marry her but doesnt realize he is in love with her and she runs away because she loves him and has for sometime. This book was based in a town where this aunti agony type gossip article gets published in the local newspaper and no one knows the identity of the author and everyone keeps wondering as to that. I think it was a series but i never read any other book so i dont know for sure. Can someone help with the name?

I once read a HP novel about some married couple (the husband is italian) and they have twins, a girl and boy (i think the baby girl is called Claudia) and at some point they were happy, but now they are not. The H wants to make things right again. Does anyone know the book?
Thank you :*


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I once read a HP novel about some married couple (the husband is italian) and they have twins, a girl and boy (i think the baby girl is called Claudia) and at some point they were hap..."
Possibly Marchese's Forgotten Bride by Michelle Reid ?

1) SOLVED Greek businessman (H) falls in love with h who was standing in for her sister, but she is actually an academic. H chases h back to London.
2) Night club singer as the h, H dances (hilarious to us but "sexy" at the time) like a male belly dancer around her on the dance floor
3) H (boss?) seduces h, they go to his(?) resort together. Bottles of Chateau d'yquem shared constantly. H drinks one whole bottle by himself after she leaves. H drinks the d'yquem out of a shoe at one point.
I know these are vague, but these are from my sister. We read through hundreds of harlequins but left them all in our childhood home and most of those have been reboxed and moved out so we can't find anything. There are just silly points that might strike someone as familiar. Those gals, Catherine Lamb, Emma Johnson, and more from the 80s made us so happy!

1) Greek businessman (H) falls in love with h who was standing in for her sister, but she is actually an academi..."
I threw all mine out when I moved. Tried to give them away but no takers. I had about 3 tubs of them. lol about the belly dancing, I read one which was set in Bollywood and the H sang to the h at their wedding. lots of Charlotte Lamb books are available online. Crescendo still one of my top 10 faves.

I once read a HP novel about some married couple (the husband is italian) and they have twins, a girl and boy (i think the baby girl is called Claudia) and at some point they were hap..."
maybe Tattered Loving ?

I once read a HP novel about some married couple (the husband is italian) and they have twins, a girl and boy (i think the baby girl is called Claudia) and at some po..."
Thank you, but it is not that. In the one i remeber they had a boy and a girl, and i think i was wrong about them being twins. Relatively newly wed couple with a baby girl and a baby boy having marital issues, The wife is tired and sometimes faking it at nights :)

The book seems to be in the historical end. The 'h' lives with her family, there's a lighthouse that's central to the story. The H thinks she's a mermaid, miracle or something. This is all I really remember of this book.
I hope this jogs someone's memory. Thank you!

1) Greek businessman (H) falls in love with h who was standing in for her sister, but she is actu..."
My sister and I have been having a grand time remembering all the ridiculous plots we read. And Penny Jordan! So many memories. I think OpenLibrary has a bunch of Charlotte Lamb, I'll look into Crescendo! Thanks!

1) Greek businessman (H) falls in love with h who was standing in for her sister, but she is actually an academi..."
Maybe Love's Tangled Web by Mary Lyons

The book seems to be in the historical end. The 'h' lives with her family, there's a lighthouse that's centra..."
Heart of the Storm by Mary Burton. I've never read it, so I don't know if it matches.

I once read a HP novel about some married couple (the husband is italian) and they have twins, a girl and boy (i think the baby girl is called Claud..."
What about Marriage Meltdown by Emma Darcy ? Although, she is Italian not him.

I probably read it in the early 1980s. Young woman goes to work as a housekeeper (nanny?) for a surly scientist. Her parents and brother/s are scientists as well. She uses fake glasses to utterly obscure her beauty, and wears dowdy clothes. I particularly remember an ongoing argument about leaving her car parked on the street and it running down her parking lights; they had to be left on overnight (not a requirement in the US).
Can anyone help? Thank you!

the book is a little bit older and the story of the lighthouse takes place somewhere in the early 1800s.
The h is helping keep the lighthouse going.

1) Greek businessman (H) falls in love with h who was standing in for her sister, but she is actu..."
Looks likes that's the one! Now if a male belly dancer or a drinker of d'yquem could be found!

The entire book takes place over a day or two - with a lot of backstory.
The h an..."
BUMP


This is one of my favorites.
The Ranieri Bride (For Love or Money) by Michelle Reid

Hero's name is DAN
he and heroine met at a wedding reception while heroine was looking out the balcony/window alone and away from the crowd contemplating her recent break up with a short man .H invited her to his room at that hotel (he didn't have a room, just was really interested in the h) heroine invited him instead to her house for a picnic of some sort and something happened.
They continued their affair with the H eventually asking the h to move in with him but the h had an ex who was jealous and set the h up as if they were having a passionate moment when the ex set up the H to "catch" them on the sofa.
H will not listen to h explanations and when the h went to his office (he's in construction development of some sort) he kisses the h but rebuffs her saying he can't forget what he saw.
The h finds herself pregnant. I can't remember if she tied to tell H. But she decides to raise the baby on her own. On a common friend's engagement party
(which the h attended because she though the H was in US) the h stands up and shocks Dan of her pregnancy. H insists marriage, introduces her to his father who is the bestfriend's gardener. The BF of H is a title holder.
Other clues: h is journalist. I'm thinking her name is eve because they didn't give out their real names and she left to transfer apartments after something happened with the H.
-h is writing a story about H's BF's place because the place was going to be open for events and such to make money.
-H thought saying 'I want you' I love you.
-h had swollen ankles and had to borrow socks from the H's BF and H had to carry her around
Thanks and God bless whoever finds this because I seem to be thinking about it too much and can't sleep properly trying to figure out what it is.
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I've looked and haven't been able to find a book with this character's name. After messing around I finally typed in Steele Gray on abebooks and found the book. The reason I couldn't find it on fictiondb was because someone typed in Gras instead of Gray. I fixed the problem and now it will be easy to find the next time. The book is The Steele Trap by Betsy Osborne.