Post by newenglandlady on Jan 1, 2019 19:37:11 GMT -7
What are some of your favorite or most memorable meetings between a hero and heroine?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips is probably my favorite author for this. My favorites are:
Heaven, Texas (Chicago Stars Series Book 2) – The h is mistaken for a stripper when she shows up during a party at the H's house to escort him back to his hometown to shoot a movie. So good. Nobody's Baby But Mine (Chicago Stars Series Book 3) – The h, a genius physicist, pretends to be a prostitute with the goal of being impregnated by the football star H. Their meeting is definitely a memorable one! Dream a Little Dream (Chicago Stars Series Book 4) – The h is broke and desperate when her car breaks down on the H's property and he is less than sympathetic. She tries to convince him to give her a job. Love the sassy h in this one.
I will add more from other authors as I think of them. I am a sucker for damsel in distress meetings and, on the flip side, also really enjoy when the H and h initially strongly dislike each other (see Dream a Little Dream, above!). I also read a lot of romantic suspense where the characters are often meeting under extreme circumstances.
Let's hear some of your favorites! Any genre welcome
A classic H & h meeting that I like is in Georgette Heyer's Venetia. A more modern author, Mia Vincy, wrote a humorous meeting scene between the H and h, who are already married but haven't seen each other in two years, in A Wicked Kind of Husband. I also liked the scene Jayne Fresina's describes in The Peculiar Folly of Long-Legged Meg and Maya Rodale's Duchess by Design has a good one too.
agreads I second your pick of the scene from "A Warriner to Rescue Her." Loved the whole book.
Post by secretromancejunkie on Jan 10, 2019 16:35:42 GMT -7
I read one recently that had me laughing out loud imagining it. It is a medieval highland romance. The H is a notorious warrior nicknamed The Devil of the Highlands (also the name of the book). The h's evil stepmother has promised her to this man and only tells her the day he is to arrive. She is upset and rides out to spend some time alone thinking.
While out alone she slips and falls into a stream. She doesn't want to return to the castle soaking wet. So she removes her dress, gets on her horse in just her shift, and gallops back and forth across the field holding her dress in the air to try and dry it. This is how the H first sees her. He's afraid she might be slightly daft.