An important chunk of mine is #6, Alone in the Wilderness Together.
We need to come up with four more, so we can have a top ten list of Historical Romance Plots.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
P.M. Marc - Jan 16, 2005 8:50:38 pm PST #4858 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - Jan 16, 2005 8:51:46 pm PST #4859 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ooo! #7: the Pretend Engagement! (Where a couple who doesn't want to marry pretends to be engaged with plans to break it off, but accidentally falls in love along the way.)
beth b - Jan 16, 2005 8:51:47 pm PST #4860 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Oldest daughter to marry so that the younger children will have better lives
beth b - Jan 16, 2005 8:53:15 pm PST #4861 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
prettiest daughter to be married to the stern older man- who must settle down, do his duty and find a family. however, he finds that the bluestoking daughter is more interesting
P.M. Marc - Jan 16, 2005 8:54:17 pm PST #4862 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Do we have the Broke Parent of Status Marries Off Child to Rich Person of Lower Social Class Looking to Climb?
Susan W. - Jan 16, 2005 8:54:37 pm PST #4863 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Hmmm...
Browbeaten governess and/or poor relation gets man intended for rich cousin/charge.
This one's medieval/Scottish rather than Regency, but natural enemies must marry to unite feuding principalities/clans.
beth b - Jan 16, 2005 8:54:40 pm PST #4864 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I was going to say sister to save brother who has done wrong by getting in to debt, but that can lead to alone in the wilderness or marring to save the siblings
beth b - Jan 16, 2005 8:55:43 pm PST #4865 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
there are too many lines blurred - it is too easy to co-mingle plots....
beth b - Jan 16, 2005 8:57:48 pm PST #4866 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
there are also varations that include blackmail and smugglers.
WindSparrow - Jan 16, 2005 11:42:23 pm PST #4867 of 10002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Yes, mustn't forget the dreaded Awful Secret! Which would be the blackmail thing, but could also be the "I love you but, but, I just can't...." in which the hero(ine) eventually stumbles upon the truth, declares it is unimportant in the face of True Love, and TLHEA.
Oooooh, oooh, or the Treasure Hunt (ok, so this is so not typical Regency, it's one of my favorite George MacDonald devices from the ones that got "edited" back in the late 80s/early 90s. I never could find any non-edited ones. He's probably like the non-good-parts version of Princess Bride, anyway. In which indebted, impoverished laird re-thinks ancient family legends, searches for the mysterious hidden chamber, and finds wealth beyond his wildest dreams. Or at least enough to pay the freakin' morgtage and marry the cute sassanach who got snowed in with them and helped in the search.
Dan, we may have to have separate tubs.
The lack of slope in back was actually kind of nice, especially for those who do not have tiny perfect human bodies.
I cannot get comfortable in a tub without the slope no matter how many inflatable pillows I use. Then again, slope on one end, no slope on other? That could work.
ETA: a whole bunch of stuff. Eventually I'm going to get sleepy enough to give up on this post and go back to bed.