Definitely about Linda Lovelace. She said her husband Chuck-something beat her and made her do porn movies. You could see her bruises in the films. Wonder if she is still alive. Marilyn Chambers The Ivory Snow Girl died a few years ago.Her male counterpart Johnny Wadd Holmes died of aids/hiv.. This post was edited by jannie on Sun, Apr 28, 13 at 17:12

Ceph- Thanks, but that's not the book, although I did read it years ago and it was very useful. The book I am thinking about has to do with letting go of anger. I am almost beginning to feel like Thurman because I am getting irritated w/oldest SD and I don't want to feel like that toward her. If I should be irritated w/anyone, it should be DH for not addressing some things and I am, but he doesn't want confrontation and truly she is old enough to not need to be told how to behave. This is so very gross, a health hazard and it's my biggest complaint. SD (24) hasn't cleaned out her ferrets' cage in at least four weeks . The stench of ammonia from the urine is unbelievable (not to mention there's also the feces). I have been trying to get over an upper respiratory bacterial infection and cough for several weeks. For some reason, whenever I am home and exposed to the stench, I seem to start coughing a lot more - hmmmm. I went to the doctor Thursday and we discussed the ammonia exposure. I came home asked DH to ask her to PLEASE clean the cage. He said he'd speak w/her Monday because he happened to speak w/her earlier that day about her reaction to our wedding and she was upset and cried. Of course, it also inhumane and she literally sleeps in the cesspool, so she may be the next one with a cough. We have a towel blocking the crack of her door, but the odor is so strong that it still creeps into the rest of the house. There is also the issue of her putting spoonfuls of peanutbutter into her dog's toy as a treat and letting him have his treat on our 3 month old carpet. I don't how many times she has been asked not to do that by DH, but she just does as she pleases because there is never any follow through on his part. She obviously has no respect for us and our property. Again, more his fault, but at 24 I think she shouldn't need to be told more than once. Thanks for letting me vent and please don't let me turn into a Thurman. geri

You are right!! Thank you so much Minne Tx! I just looked at the synopsis and that is the book I am looking for. THANK YOU!

This lack of a title will slowly drive me nuts *g*... FWIW, here's the plot as I remember it: --------------MAJOR SPOILERS! --------- `` `` `` `` `` `` `` Heroine somehow winds up with Raven King (I don't remember her falling asleep, but I do vaguely recall she was against the idea initially). Raven King seduces her, they fall in love, and go off to live in a huge black stone castle, I think, in Wales. Raven King has an unhinged and dangerously jealous brother who does something nasty to him and the Heroine, I can't recall just what, but she eventually forgives him (stupid move on her part). When she finds out she's pregnant, and while Raven King is off doing something or other, she goes to the rotten brother to make a peace offering and try to bring the brothers back together. Evil brother promptly sells her into slavery and tells the RK she's dead or run off. She's sold to a noble family far away consisting of an older father and a horrible son who has two wife/concubines but he's annoyed that he's not fathered any children with them. As Heroine is very pregnant by the time she arrives here, he decides she'll be his, because obviously she can breed. She in turn questions the ill-treated wife/concubines and learns the horrible son had mumps as a teenager. Because of her knowledge of medicine, she tells him he's sterile, which angers him further. Older dad steps in and decides Heroine should belong to him instead. Son nurses deep rage. She has her baby (the Raven King's son) and she and the older man slowly come to care for each other. Heroine becomes the healer in the castle. She eventually bears a daughter for her new husband. In the meantime, the RK finally figures out she might still be alive and poses as a troubadour to get into the nobleman's castle. This part is hazy at best, but I think he tricks the two men into fighting and something happens to the father. The Heroine is then forced by the nasty son to be the castle whore and is offered to the troubadour (the RK is disguised as a really yucky guy). Lucky for her, it's her own true love, and everything works out. I believe she becomes pregnant again, but they are separated again. Somehow they escape and make it back separately to the RK's castle, but while he's turned into a raven one of his own men accidentally shoots him down and he dies. She's left with three children and his castle and I really don't remember what happens to the evil brother. Finally, in the last chapter, fast forward 500 years or so to two sedate, proper, Regency-era lovers who are taking a sedate and proper walking tour and come across the ruins of the RK's castle. The reincarnated Heroine somehow knows how to climb the barely discernible stairs hewn in the rock and talks about which rooms were where in the castle. The Hero (whose name, for who knows what reason I clearly remember as being Tom -- would that the author and title had made the same...