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Reader Question – Looking for book recommendations where the husband rejected his wife, and is now trying to repent…

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UPDATED: 09-24-19 (new recommendations on this list, PLUS you can find more on lists with similar tropes):

Sonia is looking for recommendations, and I know we’ve read a bunch like these (especially the arranged marriage ones). Let’s see if we can make a new “best of” list. 😀

These are the genres that make me FURIOUS… and yet I can’t out ’em down. Definitely tends towards “bully” anti-heroes.

She asks:

Hi Maryse,

I hope you could help me out. I’ve already searched goodreads. But came up with reads with hero’s that were so-so cruel not truly cruel. read more

Reader Question – The book about the arranged marriage where he treats her badly at first…

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Kimia is desperately needing our help! We have an entire category for this trope (so much love for that “relationship” struggle), so maybe it’s already in there, but if you know which one she’s looking for, let me know. 🙂

She asks:

Hi,

I’m looking for a romance book where our virgin heroin is being forced by her mother into an arranged marriage where the Hero mistreats her really badly at first.

But then he realises his error and try to make her come out of her shell.

Please let me know if someone knows this book. It has been eating me alive!😁 read more

Reader Question – The book about the Hero that wants to break up to have more “fun”…

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Niki is looking for this one! AND ROAR!!!! 😉 This is the exact kind of Hero that sets a fury in me, while all the while hoping there will be groveling. Tee hee! OMG this sounds like all sorts of infuriating angst. I dunno if he’s even redeemable.

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I’m trying to find a romance book where the hero disappears from the house he shares with the heroine.

She questions his brother and we find out the Hero is staying at a cabin because he wants to break up with the heroine because they’ve been together too long and he wants to experience sex with other women. read more

Book Review – Clayton by Rachelle Mills | Maryse’s Book Blog

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Clayton (The Wildflower Series Book 1) <— BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION because of a recent reader question, so many jumped in and LOVED IT, and sure enough… THIS HOOKED ME RIGHT FROM THE START!!! You guys were right!!

Ohhhh yes!! This has unrequited love IN SPADES!!! Along with a love triangle (or actually 2) plus the romance rejection comes in all sorts of ways, and oh my heart was on edge. And well… you know me, even though I’m not compelled to read paranormal romance as much as I used to (in this case, two neighboring wolf-shifter packs), I could NOT resist… because after all, they are part human too and THAT… I could relate to! 😀 And boy did I. For the most part. 😉 read more

Reader Recommendations – Our favorite books where the hero says something mean about the heroine and she overhears him…

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Katie is looking for this particular trope in our romance books. And I LOVE these kinds of books too! EXCELLENT IDEA for a perfectly culled list that has this!

That crushing/hurt feeling she gets when she hears something bad about her… and then the slow build (and burn) as he realizes he was so wrong.

She asks:

Hi Maryse

Thank you for getting back to me.

I’m looking for books where the hero says something mean about the heroine and she over hears him like Kristen Ashley Sweet Dreams. read more

Reader Question… Solved! The book about the middle aged married couple and he left her, and then wanted to come back…

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Outi needs our book help! I love books about married couples and marital strife and then… maybe a second chance romance?? Though I’m not sure if this is what happens here… 😉

She asks:

Hello,

Greetings from Finland, Europe 🙂

I have been trying to find one book – middle aged couple, two college aged sons. Husband left wife, wife was dating first her attorney, next her son’s future father-in-law.  He was minister or something like that.

And then husband wanted to come back….. read more