Help needed for a Romance Novel identification...

[reynardo]

and no, it's not for me. Honestly. It's not even my sort of gen ... er that is I got rid of all most of an awful lot of my collection, and this definitely wasn't one of them.

But over on whatwasthatbook, someone has asked about this historical romance with the following details:

And the plot... Well, from what I can remember the female heroine was dressed as a boy for some reason and was eventually forced to many this guy she doesn't really like. A forced engagement maybe...?

Later on she's abducted and somehow ends up in the middle east as a slave to another man she falls in love with... only to find out that he is in fact the same guy. Whoo.

There were two memorable love scenes that I can remember, one involving the two main character running around the guys room (before the abduction) with some bath water where the guy is really really ticked over something the girl has done and then later when they are in the middle east and have made up, near or besides a fountain lake or stream.

17catherines? Anyone?

Comments

[maelefic.livejournal.com]

Hmm, with all these water references, I believe it's called "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

I love the untranslated part, especially wherethe guy professes, "Klaatu Verrata Nectu!" - it's so sweet!

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

The awful thing is, I immediately remembered this one (which I read precisely once, and that at least 8 years ago) and knew it was by Johanna Lindsey. A quick google of 'Johanna Lindsey harem' found me Captive Bride", which I think is probably the one your friend mentions.

And now I'll probably have to find a copy and read it again to see if it is as bad as I strongly suspect it is...

love

Catherine

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I was wondering about that one, but I hadn't remembered the whole known before under a different name" bit. Somehow the woman in the harem who wanted to be whipped other parts of that book stuck instead.

I knew I could rely on you - thank you so much.

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

OK, I didn't remember the whipping part. Though this might explain why I didn't buy it or reread it. I just remembered that the slavery part was in a harem - I didn't actually remember much about the book generally, but it turned out that this was the only keyword I needed.

Incidentally, did you read the reviews of this book on Amazon? Let's just say the reviewers were less than enthusiastic. Quite amusing...