SOLVED. prince of a war torn planet and a captain in the opposing federation/empire [s]

[Rebecca]

womens a captain and she meets the man who is the prince of a destroyed planet he working as a smuggler?

they become lovers she goes back to the planet with him. as everyone is overjoyed to see him he forgets about her temporary and people assume as she is from other size she is the princes prisoner so treat her badly until the prince finds out. thats all i can remeber they are living in caves as well i think

[Jessica]

Could it be Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold? It's the first book in the Vorkosigan saga, where the parents of Miles (the hero of most of the other books)meet: she's a ship captain, he's an aristocrat and the commander of the enemy forces.

[Rebecca]

its not that but looks good so will have a read. its more of a romance

[Rebecca]

i remember that when he goes back he does not expect any or many of this people to be alive and when he is celebrating being back he does not notice that she is put in prison because people only see the uniform she wears and decide to punish her. i think she i beaten or treated cruelly until he finds out and lets her free.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Rebecca, are you still looking for this book?

[Rebecca]

Yeah still can't remember the name

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Rebecca--I think I remember reading something similar to this a few years ago. Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of packing up my house, so can't go checking my books. If you want to run a scan on my titles, feel free.

(To do that, click on my icon, then select my books, then you can either scan through all of them, or do a compare--but the compare only shows 100 or so.)

[Rebecca]

Thanks I'll have a look through. I can remember the basic story just no names of characters or book title it's so frustrating.

[Rebecca]

She a captain in the federation/empire that destroyed the princes home world for resources or something. He lives with the rest if his people in caves and he does a sort of gorilla campaign against her bosses I think.

[Arielle Rae]

Can it be Gabriel's Ghost? Born of the Night? Moonstruck?

[Rebecca]

It's none of them I haven't read the first two though added to read shelf sold good. I no I'm not giving much information. I don't think its a massive book.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Ok, finally broke down and went into my own GR book shelf. I know, I know, who does that, right?

But try Susan Grant (author) I THINK it might have been one of her books. She has several series out, all dealing with various things similar to what you are looking for. There is another writer, but I can't remember her name either that does a similar thing. Sigh, it was so much easier when I could just get up from my chair (with a lot of huffing and puffing here lately--my back has been giving me serious problems from all the packing) and walk over to the appropriate bookcase. . . Yes, I DO have my books alphabetized--by author and then alphabetized by series, with the series broken down by proper "place" in the series. And yes, I DO have OCD. But hey, at least I can FIND my books, right? :o)

[Aerulan]

Possibly Sureblood by Susan Grant?

[Rebecca]

It's not that book but it's a very similar style to Susan grant as I have read nearly all of hers

[Aerulan]

Rebecca wrote: "It's not that book but it's a very similar style to Susan grant as I have read nearly all of hers"
Nuts, your description is ringing faint bells for me but that probably means it's one I read the synopsis for and not one I've actually read. Makes it harder to figure out.

How long ago did you read it? Or do you remember anything about how old it might have been at the time? For example if you read it ten years ago that rules out a lot of more recently published books, helps narrow the field.

Do you remember anything about the cover?

[Rebecca]

I'm thinking it was about maybe seven years ago and I think it's had the bog standard staring into each others eyes type cove with maybe stars on. I'm tempted to burn a dan brown book or something worse a a sacrifice to the book god then I might remember.

[Rebecca]

I no when they come back to his planet they are on the run or something and he gets swept up by his people happy to see him. The guards see her uniform as that's all the clothes she had and assume she's his prisoner and treat her horribly especially for asking to see him using his name and no title. She's kept in a dungeon/cell and. He's mad when find out and she's like always gonna hate me/never accept me etc

[Arielle Rae]

Gosh that sounds really familiar... Maybe Seduce Me in Dreams? Long shot but... I want to know what it is now as well

[Rebecca]

It's not that but sound good though. I remember really enjoying the book and I want to see if I still do so frustrating. Least I'm getting some other good book ideas on the hunt for this book.

[Arielle Rae]

Was it first in a series?

[Rebecca]

It could be a stand alone if not I think start of series.

[Arielle Rae]

Hmmmm... Close Encounters? A Thousand Words for Stranger?

[Rebecca]

Nope not either but the top one sounds for really good.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Sigh, I know that I read either this exact book or a very similar one. Unfortunately--I can't go check my shelves, since I'm packing up my books. (All the way up to J now.) And "only" 25 boxes thus far.

[Aerulan]

@ Rebecca
This one seems like a long shot but, what about Lord of the Storm by Justine Davis? It has the female pilot element (which ought to make this an easier find darn it) and a planetary resistance movement but I can't tell from the descriptions if anything else is close, it does sound like a good book and it's well reviewed though so it might be worth reading anyway.

or maybe it's sequel the Skypirate ?

I want to know what this one is too, I think I'll have to read it once it's found.

[Rebecca]

Thats it checked the longer reviews on amazon and was like bingo. *does a happy dance* only took two years to find *another happy dance*

[Aerulan]

Yay!!! Success. :)

[Rebecca]

Could some some please move this to the solved section as I can't from my phone and don't have access at moment to computer. *still doing happy dance*