Happily Ever After Cafe discussion

Did you read a book and now can't remember the name of it, but it was so good you want to read it again. Or recommend it? Well you've come to the right spot!

Tell us everything you can remember about the book and maybe someone here can help you!

Jami wrote: " HELP!!! I need help finding a book that I read a few years back. Basically, a women, who is a ghost, is living in a home that a man buys and begins to renovate. The women (ghost) begins a relation..."

Is it historical or contemporary? Scary or romance? Anything you can remember about the cover?

Was it Daring Time by Beth Kery?

Is it just for romance novels? If not, then I need help, too. It takes place in the forties, I believe, at an old farmhouse in the middle of a cornfield. All I remember is, this woman has at least eight kids, and one day she goes beserk and starts killing them off-- All for one seven year-old girl who escapes and hides in the cornfield. Her mother continuously calls her name, but she never catches her. I think it was made into a movie.

Help! I posted this in the other thread, but maybe I will have better luck here.

I read a historical romance years ago & only remember the plot, not the title or the author. Here is the plot points that I remember:

A young woman over hears her sister's finance asking her parents to marry her instead of her sister. Her parents talk bad about her, to discourage the finance from changing his mind. She doesn't know that they are lying & decides to run away. She ends up swimming through the moat & hiding in a cart of wool heading to a market. The cart gets stolen by a neighboring clan. The clans don't like each other. She ends up staying & falls in love with the leader of the other clan.

Doesn't ring a bell for me, Tyler Leigh. Sorry.

Tyler Leigh, that sounds like an awesome book!!! Oh I wish someone remembers..!

Jacqueline wrote: "Tyler Leigh, that sounds like an awesome book!!! Oh I wish someone remembers..!"

Me too! It's been driving me nuts for years.

That sounds vaguely familiar Tyler Leigh. I'll have a think about it and see if I can remember.

It's not on my historical shelf, which probably means it was a library book before I joined GR in 2009. Will keep thinking.

Thanks Sandra!

I wondered if anybody can remember the title and author of this book...

It's set in Scotland (historical romance) and in order for the heroine to claim her inheritance, she needs to have a baby. So she sets about looking for the right man for the 'job' and comes across a complete rake of a man (English dandy, tall, ridiculously good-looking, dark, rich etc). He finds her refreshing and sets out to woo her as a challenge for himself. She finally relents and gets married to him, but she makes it known to him that she doesn't want a relationship with him, just a baby. Meanwhile he has just about fallen in love with her and tries quite hard to romance her and get her to fall in love with him as well.
I do remember that she had long red hair, she always traveled with her childhood nanny and she had a fiesty spirit to match her raving hair. I think that her name may have been Shannon, and the Englishman was a Lord or something.

I've been trying to look for this book for the past 5 years and I cannot remember the title!

Hi all!

I'm looking for a (romantic) needle in a haystack. Back in the 90s I read two books in a series about a small rural area in the 19th-century mid-west. I can't recall the plots, but they were cute, quaint little romances about finding love in frontier land. I remember the covers looked like cross-stitch patterns. They were "wholesome" (for want of a better word), but not religious. They were released around the same time as the old Fabio romances.

Since I don't even have a character name to go by, Googling hasn't been very helpful so far. I'd like to get back into romances and if I could, start with re-reading these books. I'll take any guesses you have!

I'm trying to remember the title of this one:

Woman has a shop ...mostly "curiosities" type of thing on a pier in a city/town that wants to get rid of all the shops there and go to upscale/urbane renewal kind of thing. Heroine kind of watches over other shopkeepers, including one who has a parrott. Hero inherits/maybe buys the pier.

Niggling in the back of my mind is that heroine may relocate and gets into aromatherapy/soaps/lotions, etc.....BUT my poor brain may be confusing two different storylines.

Brooksie wrote: "Hi all!

I'm looking for a (romantic) needle in a haystack. Back in the 90s I read two books in a series about a small rural area in the 19th-century mid-west. I can't recall the plots, but they we..."

Sorry I have no clue. But good Luck!

Janeiowa wrote: "I'm trying to remember the title of this one:

Woman has a shop ...mostly "curiosities" type of thing on a pier in a city/town that wants to get rid of all the shops there and go to upscale/urbane ..."

Don't know on this one either. But I do hope someone does. Good Luck!

Pamela(AllHoney) Sorry I have no clue. But good Luck!

Yeah, I think I'm out of luck with such a vague memory of the books. Thanks for your response!

OK I need help. This is an older one. The h goes on a vacation and uses the neighbors pool. she is found there by a group of bad guys and the H is undercover and tries to help her by saying she is the cook he hired. Any ideas what this book is?

Yes that's it!! Thank you!

You're welcome, Amy. :o)

I have a random one. I think it was a part of a Christmas anthology, so that might make it extra tricky. A reporter visits a millionaire's house to do a story on him. He lives with his controlling mother and a younger sister. I also remember that she played guitar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Doesn't ring a bell, Tyler Leigh.

Tyler Leigh,

The girl in the cart, is it The Trouble with Highlanders by Mary Wine?

Unfortunately not :(

Stephanie wrote: "I wondered if anybody can remember the title and author of this book...

It's set in Scotland (historical romance) and in order for the heroine to claim her inheritance, she needs to have a baby. S..."

I know its been a long time after your post. Hope you found the book title. If not, it sounds to me likeTender Rebel by Johanna Lindsey