Please help, Hannah Howell without the sex

Dear fellow romancers. I recently read some of Hannah Howells's medieval highlander books. I love her character development and the time period. I could hardly put the books down. But I would really like to find something without all the graphic sex. I don't have a problem knowing that it's happening. I just don't want all the details. I had to stop reading them because it was feeling pornographic.

dakatsom - Welcome to the group! I haven't really read much in the way of medieval highlander genre so I can't give you any recommendations there. However, there is another thread here where we discussed romances without graphic sex scenes. Here's a direct link to it:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=32934

There were a lot of authors recommended, so maybe this will help! Also, we do have some highlander romance fans here, so hopefully they'll have some suggestions for you.

Julie Garwood's medieval's might be good for you, dakatsom. Her books, Saving Grace, The Wedding, The Bride, Ransom all have some sex but I don't consider that it is too graphic. Cathy Maxwell also has some medieval's. I don't remember all the titles but you could look her up.

I read a lot of Highlander romances. You might try books by Jen Holling, Kathleen Givens, Lynn Kurland, Sandy Blair and Karen Marie Moning. They have sex in them, but it doesn't seem that over the top. I've never read Hannah Howell, so I don't know how graphic hers are so I can't compare. Julie Garwood is one of my favorite Highlander novelists!

Jan Cox Speas, who unfortunately passed away in 1971, wrote two books set in the Scottish Highlands: Bride of the MacHugh and My Lord Monleigh. The sex scenes are very mild and not descriptive. They were written in the 1950s and were re-released in the 1970s after her death. I cannot say enough good things about these books.

You can probably purchase them used or request them through Inter Library Loan.

My Love, My Enemy (also by Speas) is just as wonderful as the above mentioned titles; however, it is not set in the Highlands. These are books that I have reread many times.
Fossick

Wow, someone else who likes Jan Cox Speas! Her books are fantastic. I read them many years ago and finally tracked them down on the Internet a few years ago.

Here I go again with the Carla Kelly recommendation, but you won't be disappointed with any of hers, if you like an early 1800s setting. Her books take place during/after the Peninsular Wars and the locales range from England to Spain. I would stay away from Daughter of Fortune, her very first book. It was very gory and not a warm fuzzy at all. But it is so far out of print, you probably won't find it anyway.

I don't go for the "G" rated stuff usually, I like it somewhere South of "R" headed toward "X" actually, but Deanna Gist is a great writer of Christian romance.

CC

Thank you so much to all of you for your suggestions. This will definitely give me something to work with.

Wow, this is kind of weird. I personally found Hannah Howell's books to be quiet the opposite-- either too tame of sex scenes or a lack of them. Maybe this is because I am much like CC and prefer most of my romance books to be somewhere between "R" and "X", usually closer to the "X". As long as the book is well written and interesting, of course, and is not so poorly written that it reads more like an outright Porno. I will only read the more graphic 'erotica' type if they have a good story line, great characters, an honest love conection besides the obvious sexual one, and the book is interesting to me.
Sorry, then, that I cannot offer you any suggestions for what you are looking for. But some of the others have already given you some examples that would probably be the closest to what I could have told you, such as Jen Holling. Hope you find some good books though!

I'm with Queen, I like my stories...spicy! Call it a vice if you want, but I'm comfortable with it.