This HaBO is from Kate, who hopes to find this Mills & Boon romance. Content warning for the description below:

I probably read this book back in the 80s or 90s, and I need to find it again…because it had such a crazy plot. I must reread it.

The heroine is a doctor or a health care professional. She lives in Montana or Wyoming on a ranch. Her elderly husband recently died and left the ranch to her.

Okay, the bonkers plot elements: her husband’s adult son from his first marriage shows up on her doorstop. The son is hostile, but attracted to heroine.

Next plot element: there have been a series of rapes and maybe murders in the area. Heroine suspects a particular doctor, and has sex with said doctor so she can get a sperm sample from herself!!!!! To compare to DNA from rape victims!!!

Meanwhile her “stepson” is still hanging around and falling in love with her. He is a lot like his father, so she is falling for him too. I know there is a happy ending because there is a sequel where she is pregnant and they go to some clinic or conference in the Caribbean.

The only other thing I remember is that I checked this out of the Boise library, and the book was in the first fiction shelf – in the A to D authors. Oh, and either the heroine or the authors first name is Samantha.

Hopefully some of my fellow veteran bitches will know the answer. Thanks for any answers.

Bitches, assemble!