what is the title of this novel? Solved: Duchess of Vidal

[Veronica]

There is this woman that gets caught in a storm and has to take shelter in an abandoned cottage and this man (a duke or something) ends up caught to and has to share with her. Since her reputation was ruined because there was no chaperone, he has to marry her even tho they can't stand each other. They end up falling in love neither tells the other. Once she buys a pair of highspirited horses and he gets very mad at her even tho she handles them very well. She ends up kidnapped and he rescues her and finds out that she's really rich and they tell each other they're in love

I'm actually not sure if it is a Gothic or a Regency. It has a lot of both qualities in it from what I can remember.

[Lisa]

I wish I knew. I don't recognize that one...

[Steve]

Could you be thinking of The Stormy Petrel by Mary Stewart? A woman in a rented cottage off the coast of Scotland has two men arrive seeking shelter during a storm. Of course that's two men not one and I'm not sure if one is a Duke or something.

[Lisa]

I'm pretty sure it's not that one. :) I picked it up to read for the first time this year. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'm thinking it might have been by Holt, Whitney, or someone like that. I'm just not sure...

[Veronica]

Not Holt, I own or have read nearly all her books. This one isn't a first person book.

[Jaimey]

Veronica wrote: "There is this woman that gets caught in a storm and has to take shelter in an abandoned cottage and this man (a duke or something) ends up caught to and has to share with her. Since her reputation ..."

I keep thinking it's one by Mary Balogh, one of her older ones. I could be wrong, of course, but it definitely sounds more like a Regency than a Gothic.

[Maria]

I remember reading this years ago, and I had not ventured far outside of Victoria Holt or her other pen names, so it would have to be one of those. Have you tried the Phillipa Car list? I'll look too.

If you find what it was, please report back :)

[Veronica]

if it is a Holt novel, its not under that name. I have almost all her books and read the rest, it could be under a different name, probably not Carr tho either, cause I read one of those and didn't like it so didn't read any others. I will look through them tho. I never thought about it being her. All her names have different styles so it could be.

[Diana]

It is not Holt. I've read all but maybe two.
I haven't read this one, but it may be it:



Let me know. I'm a good "googler".
By the way if you are intersted in Holt, feel free to join our group. :) Cheers

[Christine]

i might be wrong, but in Holt's Spring of the Tiger, the heroine is taken to a cottage in a storm, (the man pretends he is lost in the storm to lure her there) and she ends up with him, (the whole stage for a seduction set up in advance) all night and he does actaully successfully seduce her...but he tells her family that he was a gentleman and that he will marry her and take her to Ceylon...saving her reputation, etc...is that the one?

[Veronica]

No not that one. I do love that book tho. Its definetly NOT a Holt novel.

[Veronica]

I posted this question on a Regency group and someone suggested The Duchess of Vidal, and that's the one. Yay. So happy.

[Michelle]

Sounds like Night of The Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt, perhaps? Similar circumstances happen in it, anyways.