Another "remember this romance novel" question

December 12, 2008 12:04 PM

This question reminded me that I have a trashy paperback romance novel memory of my own that I would like to track down. It was about a female highwayman and its cover art was mostly in shades of dark green.

This would have been a paperback romance novel published sometime in the early 1980s (prior to 1983) or maybe even the 1970s (I bought it used). The writer was still publishing because I remember I had another paperback by the same author that I bought new in about 1980-1982 (with a similar style of cover art but this one in shades of rose and coral). The main female character either dressed up as a man and became a highwayman, or else just fell in love with a highwayman (although I think the former because she was one of those spirited dark-haired types). The setting was somewhere in the British Isles, I believe, and I don't remember any of the characters' names. It was a relatively thick book, maybe over 250 pages.

posted by matildaben to writing & language (5 comments total)

Could it be The Masqueraders?
posted by peacheater at 12:16 PM on December 12, 2008

Not The Masqueraders. It definitely had a highwayman-centric theme (which that book appears not to have), was more recent than 1928 (I remember it was racy but probably not too explicit), and wasn't a big-name author.
posted by matildaben at 12:26 PM on December 12, 2008

And could this be the edition you were thinking of?
posted by peacheater at 12:26 PM on December 12, 2008

According to Mrs. Lentrohamsanin it's Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 3:03 PM on December 12, 2008

Moonstruck Madness rang a bell right away. Clicking on it, it is the exact same cover. Amazon gives the publication date as 1991, but according to Wikipedia, it was 1977. Thanks, Mrs. L!
posted by matildaben at 4:56 PM on December 12, 2008