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Reader Question – The mafia book where she was supposed to kill the hero, because of her mother’s pact with the mafia…

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Bhargavi needs our book help! Sounds like an arranged marriage type of thing and full of vengeance!

She asks:

I forgot a book name. Can you please help me by reading the story below.

Hero and his family will kill the heroine’s father, brother, uncles because she was promised to him but the heroine loves another man on her family’s side.

Heroine’s mother persuades her to go to the hero’s house and live there. And when the time is right her mother ask her to kill the hero.

But heroine falls in love with hero. And got pregnant. So she refused to kill hero but her mother made a pact with other mafia to kill the hero. read more

Reader Question – The historical romance about the arranged marriage and the husband’s cousin sneaks in at night to “be with her”…

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Reni needs our book help! And I’m all for searching for an OLD favorite, so I’m glad you brought it to us, Reni!! 😀 Oh and this one sounds a little… salacious. 😉 I’m so curious too, now!!

She asks:

Find the book please

Now this might sound intimidating. I read this one at our local library nearly 20 years ago! Yeah, yeah I can sense the eyerolls and raised eyebrows.

It’s a historical where she’s in an arranged marriage to a man who barely communicates with her, but only visits to make passionate love in the dark at night. read more

Reader Question – The book about the sheikh that was forcing her to leave him…

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Adaobi needs our book help (and she has it narrowed down to an exact series). Oh this one sounds angsty. All sorts of relationship-wrong and yet so angsty.

Hello.

Greetings from Nigeria.

I’ve been trying to find this Mills & Boon book for at least 10 years.

I’m a little fuzzy on the details but I remember that he was a sheikh and that towards the end he forced her to go away from him and she was crying on her knees begging him (I think from a closed door).

She eventually left and I think there was an airport scene. read more

Reader Question… Solved! The book about the arranged marriage because he has shares in her father’s business…

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Mannat needs our book help! DARK ROMANCE… and I am absolutely clueless on this one!

She asks:

Hello,

I am trying to find a book but can’t remember the title or author.

I know that the heroine goes to visit her ex-husbands mom in the hospital after she gets heart surgery and she goes because she doesn’t think her ex-husband with show. He does show and she tries to avoid him but she ends up going back to his mothers cabin with him because of a storm.

They hook up and she thinks that the end. read more

Reader Recommendations – Our favorite books featuring a pregnancy resulting from a fake relationship…

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Kiana wants book recommendations for this particular trope!! And what’s fun is I remember SO many years ago (a decade ago), when one of my best friends was hooked on romance books with pregnancies. Whenever I see new “ooops-pregnancy” book releases, I always think of Samantha. 😉

Kiana:

Hi Maryse!

I have been a big fan of your book blog and getting recommendations.

Would you recommend any books which has a fake relationship or marriage with a pregnancy?

I’m in the mood for some books with romance pregnancy 🙂 read more