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Lady Gallant by Suzanne Robinson. Oh, what can I say about Kit's grovel except that
he deserved to suffer and indeed, he did suffer for quite a while. In this book, the
hero, Kit, thought that the heroine, Nora, betrayed him so he proceeded to make her
suffer. He verbally taunted her right after their wedding night and many times after.
He arranged his mistress to live with them and make it where the heroine would
catch them in bed together. The heroine grew from a mousy slip of a girl to one that
made him beg on his knees (literally). Even after he found out his mistakes and
begged the heroine to forgive him, she shunned him. She refused to talk to him and
was indifferent to him. She made him work for his redemption for months before
finally, after witnesses something very sweet that the hero did, forgave him. But you
can tell that the hero suffered, physically and mentally. The groveling really saved
his book.

Simply Love by Catherine Anderson. The hero wanted the heroine for a mistress so
he arranged for her father and brother to be arrested so that she had no one to turn
to except him. She's really naive and innocent and didn't realize what it would mean
for her to move in with him. He tried to seduce her but because of her innocence,
was rebuffed everytime. He grew to love her and actually married her but then she
found out about his treachery. He groveled so much. He even worked in the mine
with her father and brother to gain her love again. It took many weeks, even
months, for her to soften up to him. Finally at the end he was so desperate and
thought that she was leaving him that he confessed his love for her. It was really
touching.

These are the two books where hero did something so unforgivable but because of
his groveling, redeemed himself. My pet peeve is when the heroine forgives way too
easily.

Lost in Love by Michelle Reid this summer after reading some blogs on Amazon. I
think it was the only time that I have read a book where the H cheated and I felt ok
with the h forgiving him. It was interesting how the story is told as a flash back. I
think that it makes the reader a little more understanding to the characters. I'm not
saying that I think that the book had the best H ever but at least I felt that he
realized that he made a huge mistake and was sorry, not just sorry for being caught.

SEP's Kiss an Angel. The h literally brought the poor (proud) H to his knees. Loved it.

The Ultimate Betrayal by Michelle Reid,

Reason to Believe by Kathleen Eagle,
A Perfect Marriage by Laurie Bright, and
Some Enchanted Season by Marilyn Pappano all have really good scenes where the
couple really recommits to each other
A Question of Pride by MR cheated..I'd definitely agree with you there, even though
he probably didn't sleep with the OW.

An HP groveling rec: Baby of Shame by Julia James.

h fell in an instant brain-numbing lust/love for H & had sex with him before she could
talk to him about her dad's failing business. When he accidentally found out she was
representing her dad's company, H quickly ASSumed the worst, wouldn't give her
the time of day to explain herself, & wanted nothing to do with her. As a result, her
father's business closed down & she had to support him b/c he had a heart attack(?)
soon after. In the next 5 yrs, h had the burden of supporting her ailing & emotionally
unavailable father & a baby. h became burned out & malnourished. Right before H
sees her again, her dad just died, social services threated to take her son away from
her, & she got hit by a car. (feeling sorry for her yet?)

Enter H...who thought h used sex during their 1-night stand to drum up business for
her dad & had been angry & bitter with her & all womankind for 5 years. He also
readily believed the social worker, who informed him about his son's existence, that
h has been neglecting their son b/c of her drug use & selfishness. When H realized
how wrong he was...major groveling! It was good too.

Love Pound Puppies: I agree that Kit was cruel and horrid to Nora and that he
doesn't deserve her, however, I feel he did love her and was humbled by that love at
the end. I love reading the redemption that he went through to earn back her love. I
also love that Nora was very strong and actually stopped loving Kit after his cruelty.

In Kiss An Angel, I think it's just me, but I didn't like the H. He was an a** and I feel
the h should not be forgiven him. I'm not just talking about the part where he
wanted her to have an abortion but throughout the whole book. He was emotionally
abusive and distrusting. And only when he accidentally whipped her was when he
was remotely kind. Though he did grovel for a bit, I never felt he groveled enough.
Even on his knees. Heroine was too emotionally weak. I would've loved it if she did
leave him for a period of time. But that's just me. I'm vindictive like that.

Dark Wager by Mary Spencer.

Though groveling is not as emotionally charged as Simply Love or Lady Gallant, it
was pretty good. H made a bet with his friends (and therefore the ton) that he would
get his "peahen" wife pregnate and leave her there on his estate. Thing is, he's loved
heroine since he was young but because of his distrusting and jealous nature, he
thought that she was unfaithful to him. Heroine is not classically beautiful but many
men likes her and flocks aorund her, causing hero to mistrust her more so. His ex-
mistress outed the bet in the newspaper by drawing malicious caricatures of heroine.
Heroine found out about the bet and the fact that h called her "peahen" to his
friends. She was extremely hurt and heartbroken. He groveled for many days and it
took several weeks for her to forgive him.

Violet Winspear, the Child of Judas,

 in which the h, having had a miscarriage and been abandoned by the H, takes off
with his very attractive younger brother who is mad keen to have an affair with her,
and you get the feeling that she would have taken him up on it in time had the H not
returned to sweep her off her feet. This was a refreshing change, because while the
broody ill tempered H is sailing alone on his boat, the h is partying in Athens and
having a fabulous time

Michelle Reid's Eye of Heaven and Mistress Bride have pretty good "grovels" by the
H.

The Lover by Nicole Jordan

has a great grovel by the H after the h leaves him for his activity with his former
mistress and lack of trust. If you're adamantly opposed to total adultery, however,
as opposed to a huge betrayal of trust and "near" adultery, make sure you read the
revised version where she's rewritten a crucial scene!!!!
(Though as I wrote in another review, the rewritten version is just not as believable
as the original. But I would not be able to forgive the hero in the original. Just never
happy, that's me!!!)

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