!Vintage unknown book PLEASE HELP!

ForumRomance - from historical to contemporary

Melde dich bei LibraryThing an, um Nachrichten zu schreiben.

!Vintage unknown book PLEASE HELP!

1Jadien
Sept. 18, 2022, 5:22 am

I know this is going to be a long shot and its very unlikely my efforts to search will reward me in the book I treasure so dearly but I am so desperate for the comfort that book would bring me.

This book was bought in Mission Canada from a corner store ran by an elderly couple, on its cover was a black horse running. It was clearly old, it was a paper back with red edged pages.

Its a very very old romance set in western times I believe. I apologize that my memory is hazy but I read it last over 6 years ago before my mother sold quite literally all my belongings for her drug habits after kicking me out on the 24th of december. I only recall some segments which I will detail below, theres a lot more to the story than I remember alone but I have no way of knowing them at this time.

This book was about a girl (virgin) with long black hair, she for some reason ended up living with her uncle and was unfortunately r*ped by him in his drunken state and when he had left her she sat down at her mirror and brushed her hair examining herself to find she looked very much the same as before much to her surprise as she had been conditioned to think she'd look lesser in worth.

She ends up running away and eventually meets a man who decides to marry her and she agrees but fast forward to on their wedding night when she doesn't bleed when they share a bed and he blows up with anger insulting her and saying she brought shame on him or something to that effect and she runs away again since he now wants her dead for her 'lies'

She gets rescued by another man during what I think was a flash flood in the desert who tells her to drink in small sips or she'll get sick otherwise due to severe dehydration. They make love and I vividly recall him saying something similar to "Bruja! Cold on the outside warm on the inside" and after their bedding session she gets teary and asks why he hasn't lashed out asking why she didn't bleed for him and more or less he says he doesn't care what her past was like because he accepts her as she is regardless.

They end up together and her ex comes back and tries to kill the new guy by bounding him in wet leather to a cactus and leaves him to die in the sun which would tighten the leather and kill him eventually but the girl saves him and they live happily ever after I assume.

I've looked for YEARS for this book, the details have ebbed more and more as time goes on but if anyone ANYONE at all on the earth sees this and recognizes it I am willing to pay physical cash for its title and author or if you have a copy you don't value I will pay any price, this book means so much to me and helped me through such difficult times as a victim myself I can't bare the thought that my mother stole another one of the few things I found comfort in and that I may never get the opportunity to read this book again and feel its comfort. Please I beg of you if you can find it I will be forever grateful.

Anmelden um mitzuschreiben.