This HaBO comes from Ashley, who wants to find this historical romance:

I have scoured the internet and triple checked my reading history, but have not been able to find this book or the series it belongs to. This is my last ditch effort before I give up and write the book myself because it must not exist outside of my head.

The book in question is a historical romance where the nobleman (can’t remember if he was titled or not) runs across a wife sale where the woman being sold is someone he knows and used to love (I think). She’s very shy and sweet and doesn’t expect much except that it will be better than her current marriage. I think she has some self worth/image issues. I want to say she’s given pearls or some sort of jewelry and told to behave in very specific way while the male lead teaches her how to serve him. Then there’s a dinner where a friend and fellow former spy (I think) of the new man comes to meet her and tells her that new man loves her.

There’s another book in the series about a former spy trying to get revenge on a woman who tricked him in his work a while ago. He accidentally abducts that woman’s twin(?) sister instead and tries to break her through seduction. The abducted woman was tricked by her “evil” sister to take her place. The “good” sister also has had a baby from an American soldier that’s dead now (maybe). The “evil” sister might be keeping the baby hostage but then ends up dropping it off at the house of the spy. At the end of the story, the “good” sister tried to take revenge on the spy by doing the same thing to him that he did to her, but it just turns into a love story ending where they find out she’s pregnant again with spy man’s baby.

I hope someone from the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books community can help me out!

We must HaBO!