HaBO: She Was Raised by Wild Dogs
by SB Sarah
I read this several years ago and while I don't know if I'll read it again, I'd love to know what it was.
Basic story: Heroine was on a trip to Africa with her father (titled gentleman) and her mother (not his wife). She got separated from the group. They searched high and low ... but obviously not in the right places. Assuming she'd been abandoned in the wilderness, the heroine was taken in by a pack of wild dogs and lived with them until she was in her teens.
At that time, she decided it was time to go back to being human and got returned to England, where she's made the ward of some gentleman (our hero). There's a lot of back and forth as she re-integrates into human - upper-class English - life. There are also plot points with her father (who may have died recently ... or be dying). He had been an impoverished titled gentleman, so after he and the heroine's mother returned from Africa, he married an heiress -- who's a bitch (metaphorically, not literally, like the heroine's foster mother). There are two sons, obviously younger than the heroine.
Much danger, plotting, etc., until it comes out that - surprise! - the titled gentleman HAD married the heroine's mother so she's legitimate (but still ... raised by dogs) and his sons are not legitimate, cannot inherit his title, and the evil not!wife is thwarted. I also have a vague memory that somehow the heroine's father managed to leave a will in which she was left all his money ... most of which came from the not!wife's.
I'd appreciate any help on this ... I've been trying to remember the author's name, the book ... anything. I'm good with plots but lousy with names.
Are there a few romances where the heroine is raised by wild dogs? Why dogs? How about giraffes? Are there any heroines raised by giraffes? WAIT. How do we not have were-giraffes yet?!
Anyway. Do you recognize this book?
Categories: General Bitching, Help a Bitch Out
