
It’s Monday! Before you boo, we’re ushering in a week when classic museum heists are back on the news, the clocks are about to turn back, and it’s hard to focus pocus on anything but tricks and treats.
The immortal Texan wereferret hedgehog diaspora fun in Friday’s comment section have once again proven that we are a mighty Horde in STEM (shenanigans, tomfoolery, escapades and mischief). What better time to encourage a little creative BDH chaos?
There are famous subreddits called Explain a Book (or Movie) Plot Badly, where people summarize beloved stories so inaccurately, they become masterpieces.
Think:
Professional nephew goes on long walk and loses jewellery.
Lord of the Rings
Or:
Girl lands her man after she dries her hair, shows off her legs and stops talking.
The Little Mermaid
Naturally, we must try this with Ilona Andrews books. Here’s my go at the first one:
Ex-warlord with attachment issues discovers the power of cows, gardening, and unconditional love after cursing at a unicorn.
I know you can do worse!
Pick an Ilona Andrews book, novella, or even a free snippet and explain the plot badly in the comments. Be as misleading as possible while staying technically accurate. If your summary makes another reader snort tea out their nose or makes Ilona message me with “MOD R, NO!” you’re doing it right.
Go forth, BDH. Confuse newcomers, alarm Goodreads, and make Caldenia proud.



first?
First…guest at an off-licence AirBnB is a dictator from space who loves onions rings
I am so sorry… to tell you… Funyuns are NOT onion rings.
May the Mellow Yellow be with you.
Fire!
Thank you for the laugh, and I agree, not onion rings. 😀
A lady with anger issues falls in love with a control freak tomcat.
Kate in 1 sentence 🥰
This also applies to October Daye, who I love almost as much as Kate.
The “make Caldenia proud” was gold! LMAO
Orphan girl sold into slavery and forced to save lives for 10 years. Retires and attempts to destroy the world.
EDIT to add: Not orphan. Whoops.
Woman with authority issues hides from her father, who has caused her major daddy issues, in a small army of shapeshifter control freaks in an attempt to postpone patricide until she’s better prepared.
no worries on the edit. I say, if your parents sold you, you’re better off an orphan
An orphaned woman with a broom helps a hairy man discover his true self.
Love it!
A vengeful widow from the wrong side of the tracks meet her D’Artanion in Jurassic Park
A healer and a farmer join together to rescue an abused elephant.
Gold!!! 😆
I’m late to the party but that is an amazing summary.
Yes!!!
Two people, betrayed when ther spouses elope with one another, discover love and passion as soul mates, amongst a flower festival
Mod R, you are so cruel is it delicious. I look forward to reading all of the Hordes demented efforts.
+1! 😄
Slavic Expat tries to hide from her father who just wants her to make him proud. She meets the love of her life in a dark building in unsavory part of town while greeting him with Here Kitty Kitty.
love it!
only thing to correct this is she is not Slavic, they are from Mesopotamia
She is slavic through her mother, I believe.
True, but she physically and magically takes after her father’s side of the family. She speaks Russian because of Voron and continues to do so because of Evdokia.
Which still makes her a child of Slavic immigrants
Aliens invade a B&B under constant construction
Featuring moment where a prickly chef wins over local police with frosted donut
If it weren’t for those damn meddling Draziri kids!
😆
Sa-weet Scooby Snacks!
lmao 😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
👍🏼😂
got it in one
Girl with a secret faces reality and ends up working to save the town.
Which book did you have in mind? I can see this describing at least three (I’m not going to spend more time thinking of options) characters.
Just sittin’ in the corner with my tea ready to snort🤪
+1
A woman with major daddy-issues bounces from man to man trying to find the answers on who killed her surrogate father in a magic infested world.
Armed with the power of love a woman tries to save the city from an encroaching swamp.
The swamp giveth, and the swamp taketh away!
omg! too funny! –
A sentient smart house lets individuals move in and ponders televising their Big Brother shenanigans or maybe just journaling their ongoing soap operas for a possible memoir. Delicious recipes with pictures included.
This is genuis!! 😂😂😂😂😂
P.I. hired to find a missing son who is planning to do bad things. gets kidnapped and suffers from Stockholm syndrome. 🤣
I’m going to break character just to say how much I hate the so-called Stockholm syndrome that is completely fake and misogynistic and doesn’t exist 😝. It’s safer if you don’t get me started on this lol
Hear hear Mod R!!
Yes! Thank you.
Applause 👏🏻
+1
Professional woman hired to find missing kid gets kidnapped by crazy ex-soldier.
a young blond stray becomes protege of 3 powerful land claiming, blood magic users
Goldilocks like you’ve never seen her before!
+1
YESSSS oh I love that!
Women falls in love with lion after seeing it wrestle with a squip creature of Slavic mythology and later traps him in a cage as a gesture of love.
Kate Daniels book 2 and 3
woman falls in love with a military leader while teaching a feudal society to play nice with other species.
sweep of the blade.
Perfect!
Or Iron Covenant?
Woman tells a little white lie about what’s on her mind only to have her overbearing boss’ aunt marry her off.
I’m sorry.
I don’t recognize this one.
Please help.
+1
Silver shark?
Yup 😊
It’s one of my favorite stories!
Little white lie 😂 so smol. Very tiny. Virtually unnoticeable. 👀
Brilliant!
Also
War vet dyes her hair and seduces her new boss with her mind.
Woman with daddy issues terrorises Atlanta and finds love with a cat man.
Government-backed treasure hunter grows her own guard dog, then brings it home to meet her kids.
Love it!
oldest sister almost gets her house caught on fire while being courted by a maniac and a madman.
My take was pretty similar – shy girl helps megalomaniac put out fire
Cackle for this one
Large male feline saves pride with help of female hunter. Magic Bites
Bank robber caught wearing jewels after heist.
Laughed out loud for this one!
Veteran starts new life on distant world; snags husband by pretendingto be a shark in VR.
Lol!
Woman with anger issues and man who sheds a lot have a difficult courtship amid various apocalypses.
🤣🤭🤣🤭🤣💖
🤣❤️❤️❤️
GOOD ONE!!
+1
here’s your chicken dinner 😀
fantastic !
lolololloll
After a day of teaching hs math, I needed this! 1
Perfect!
Two ferrets and a badger execute the perfect heist and solve a murder.
They really cracked it wide open! 🤭
Here all week 😂😂
Brings back the weekend news about the Louvre, my first thought was- ferrets?
I’ll be honest, my first thought was the Honey Badger Chronicles by Shelly Laurenston, since in the last book they literally broke into the Louvre.
Maybe the thieves used Cornelius’ Chinese ferret badger instead?
hahaha! The Pied Piper Returns!
+1 really good 🫖🍮can’t find an emoji with tea coming out of my nose
Seriously! Why in the world doesn’t this emoji exist? I NEED it!
The Ferret heist always wins!
😍😍😍😍🥳
just finished reading it ☆
+1
Big shot man scorns dating app filters. Most of his matches live to regret it
Woman and child are brutally kidnapped and forced to live in a onion, finds peace after realizing she is the real power
thats really good, because i have no idea what this is.
Alphas
After saving a young boy from suicide a woman falls hopelessly into friendship with his sister. she encourages her new friend to shelter with her family in their time of need providing the protection so desperately needed during a tumultuous times.
catalina and runa could have been a hot item!
Girl with self-image issues clashes with her interior decorator.
Which book is that? I was thinking Innkeeper, but I don’t see Dina having self-image issues.
It’s a very shaggy one, that’s for sure 😉
Gunmetal magic?
Loner girl with daddy issues can’t keep her shoes clean while looking for true love in all the weird places.
Orphans learn the power of love and magic as they battle the forces of evil. Also, Walmart sells shoes at an affordable cost.
love it!
Woman in hiding marries man who traps her in his basement.
He’s never going to live that down 😀
This is perfect lmao!
Woman lets grandmother, who tried to kill her and her sisters boss hold her newborn nephew.
In fairness, the boss snuck her in 😀
Retired assassin is hired to kill her ex-fiancé and nemesis but ends up just gaslighting him!
Fluffy animals will take you along on a heist that steals your heart as well
Warlord marries mysterious warlock for bread
And a castle.
And a Moat!
Yes!
and moat
Yaaaaas!!! Hot, tasty bread that smells so good!
A single mother makes a fruit salad then goes hunting dragons and ruins a wedding.
🤣
omg! so good.
And visited luxury loving lees too!
100%
🤔🤩🤣
😂😂😂😂😂 Perfect!!!!!!
OMG WINNER.
😂😂
😂😂
Perfect 😂
Awesome! Double True.
prince falls for her over multi-day negotiations of sex and porn
Formality is overrated at a certain point 😉
I was going to say :
Woman wins political negotiations with porn.
😂
Tragically single man goes on a winter hike to save a dog.
But he is rich in secret admirers 😀
Wait. Not far enough.
To piggyback:
A tragically single man fights evil kidnappers, argues with his god amidst the loneliest time of the year and rescues all in need, just to win approval and a second chance from a girl he wronged many years ago.
😂
Orphan pursues adoptive father’s adopted daughter, who frees a man who thinks he can fly.
🤣
Two people with daddy issues try to figure out why everyone else has daddy issues
It’s daddy issues as far as the eye can see!
🤣🤣
Alien leader uses inconceivable means to get retribution and find love after his father’s death.
Overly large trees impede major marriage PR event.
Wedding planner extraordinaire is on the case!
😂
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Nechists…” pagan hermit celebrates the holidays in style while seeking his lost cookies and eggnog.
Love it! ☕️
A refugee and her boss fight immaginary wars in their mind and end up falling for each other once the boss sees her in an imaginary mind battle.
Silver shark
A woman’s normal day at work goes horribly horribly wrong, but she adopts a good dog.
💜
🐾
🤣🤣
Girl that loves a pointy stick – frequently pokes said stick at evil nasty things and somehow survives with a baby lion, a homicidal maniac mate, and queenship in her happily ever after
Family forces teenager daughter on a date that is then interrupted by a pig.
A galactic Airbnb hostess tries to stop an interplanetary war by inviting three species who hate each other to share snacks. “So annoyed that you murdered my guests, but don’t forget to try the chicken!”
Wonderful!
A young woman takes up her parents’ profession, where secrecy is paramount, in the hopes of finding clues to their sudden and mysterious disappearance. Local law enforcement is suspicious of her activities.
When danger stalks and mauled bodies start showing up – she decides she must take matters into her own hands and defend her domain, going so far as to call on a family friend in order to barter groceries for a lethal arsenal.
Intergalactic uptight hybrid he-man hero becomes an exhibitionist with the taste of coffee and ends up eating a flower to save his soon to be true love.
Oh my gosh! I love this. I would so buy want to that book! (Wait…I already did! LOL!)
Girl and her kitty hide from her daddy. Her brother wants a kiss.
i like this one!
+1 really good 🫖🍮can’t find an emoji with tea coming out of my nose
Middle aged divorced mother of two gets lost, wanders around for a week while her employer sits on their hands and ends up adopting a dog.
Girl is trapped in a cave then rescues herself.
Loner making first attempt at being a secret agent man ends up in a swamp.
nice one!
This one is great!
Lonely middle aged singles travel, come back with a dog and a cat respectively and go back to work.
Despite regular magic-based hazards, Houston traffic is still bad (series)
More at 10 😀
OMG! YES! 🤣🤣🤣
This…this is the first one to make me literally lol.
Me, too
Galactic emperor looks for love in all the wrong places while staying at a B&B in Texas.
Childhood friends reunite to join a fight over a fancy toy box and discover the nutritional benefits of eating organ meat.
Space chicken saves the day! A werewolf and girl who run an inn help when they aren’t too busy with Halloween yard decorations.
👍
Fantastic
Girl struggles to maintain her household as overbearing grandparents pile on more work.
Struggles include irresponsible employees that we love (they saved the “baby”); irresponsible employees that we don’t love; and hot heartbreakers that keeping stealing the pies.
Mountain woman eats fast food, kills Uncle, disappears.
A struggling girl finds love and nobility by…flashing.
It’s the best one !! Thanks for the laugh.
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Edge! Nice one!
Great!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL
Influencer returns to woo workaholic and helps her defeat a swamp monster.
I love this one!
LOVE!
Teenage gamer boy discovers he has a talent for narration and shooting things for real. Throws up.
Couple hosts unruly guests involved in love tridecagon for multi-day event.
Love tridecagon 💀
+1
Loving mother must cope with her family where the husband is out of work and her sons fight and won’t talk to her. Also, her nephew keeps trying to kill her cat!
Her bunny! Her duck! Her cat! No, her bunny! No, cat! 😀
Young and ancient Felidae transmogrifier rescues a group of magic mushroom-hunting hominids from a hungry monster bent on destroying a refueling depot. Everyone is saved! (No dogs were injured or killed!)
Cheers!
Woman who runs a bed and breakfast hides a body in Costco and her neighbor pees on her things. One of her guests drinks coffee and runs around naked, while the permanent guest is an older, retired lady. The woman uses her broom to protect local dogs.
Haha!
a friendless person rides a horse around a crumbly Atlanta and pokes people with their sword till monsters appear. Then either attempts to be friendly or kills the monster. They are fastidious about cleaning up their blood.
Sister with middle-child syndrome wrenches family business from older sister for her own good and falls in love with super sexy Cinderella-man
Manager of unique Airbnb discovers how dangerous shopping at Costco really is.
yes!!!
🎉
+1
👏🏻
LOL
Barka, barka…barka barka
Guffaw!
Couple becomes HOA presidents accidentally after killing a toddler fae god that demands blood sacrifices.
A magically overqualified teenager runs away from home, adopts a murder horse, and accidentally becomes the most terrifying babysitter in Atlanta.
A werehyena business owner and a gun-toting beastkin PI break up, fight snake gods, argue about ethics, and somehow end up engaged because murder and magic are apparently great couples therapy.
A PI is forced to find ‘very hot’ missing bad boy only to get kidnapped by a reclusive (secretly heroic) gorgeous dragon. They then go on adventures in a swamp, pick up a Bug and the mysterious dragon helps the PI to save the city.
Okay… this one has “a bit of movie magic” in it:
In a galaxy, far, far away, a magic seed, planted in secret, bends the minds of a select few by torturing the rules of physics until the very fabric of existence is questioned. Patrons are welcome to stay, but management controls the very air they breathe.
(This is such a fun exercise! But I will limit it to two, too.)
Cheers!
Magic girl meets magic boy, they fall in love and go on to do magic stuff together.
Kate Daniel’s Series, Inn Keeper Series, Edge Series
Dancers murder foreign delegation
🥳
💃🏾🗡
Man who hates the festive season ends up felling an evergreen, serving eggnog to guests, and reuniting with childhood not-friend.
Wedding was beautiful despite the family’s best efforts.
Child destroys family with bedazzler.
😂
The quiet sister is hired to spy on her sister’s soon to be inlaws during the wedding celebration visit. She causes chaos at the rehearsal, there is a theft, bloodshed, and attempted murder. It is always the one you least suspect. Diamond Fire
Dance off festival results in multiple alien deaths.
Aliens invade Earth by sending real-life multiplayer dungeons for humans to play in.
Terrific!
Georgia belle moves to Texas to take over derelict inn – deftly managing the everyday stresses of discouraging cannibalism and protecting apple trees from urinating werewolves and coffee-drunk naked vampires.
A date so bad the family is stunned speechless, but the pig is saved!
Talented lady shows off some special bling to an old fling.
Natural blonde teams up with her kidnapper to cath an egotistical pyrokinetic with mummy issues and falls in love in the meantime – with the kidnapper, despite the pyrokinetic being hot. Because the kidnapper has post traumatic stress disorder to deal with and she likes a challenge.
I’m really loving the visual of this individual being cathed.
Woman vigorously reconstructs her inn many times.
Woman goes to great lengths to befriend German Shepherd.
Family does not know they are Primes despite being stronger than everyone around them.
A disgraced chef is lured by the promise of an intergalactic comeback by preparing the meals of delegates from several warring planets during a peace summit. While there, he discovers his talent shines no matter how large or small the stage.
Yes! 😁
Talking Chickens learn a lot and vacation in a b&b, possibly breaking HOA rules.
🤗
Older man with many children stalks younger woman with daddy and cat issues; and invites her to be dinner.
An undercover boss begins working for a rival company and catches feelings for the head of the company. She is torn between revealing her true identity or staying quiet to finish her mission, but a family crisis may take that decision out of her hands. What will happen when the object of her affection learns the truth?
Great rom com!
Elderly Dragon carries previous rider’s daughter to the capital for unknown adventures. Impresses man in pink. More to come?
Puffles! Puffles! Puffles!
On edge girl bonds with weird guy while killing hundreds of hairless dogs
So good!
Small business owner and retired soldier decide to run a dating show featuring a fish and a cat as two of the contestants.
+1 marvelous
This one is a treasure!
love it
Excellent.
OMG, yes!
Love
it!
Treasure finder mage sacrificed by her guard, struggles to survive weird world with powers from her alien mother and predator eating dog companion.
Grandma and Grandpa finally make up in second chance multigenerational story.
Wahahaha
😂
Megalomaniac grandmother with a god-complex manipulates grandchildren in order to get pretty and powerful great-grandchildren
Or
In escape to the country: Disgraced army commander and Merlin’s lost heir team up to buy a castle for their extended family.
Just this morning I was talking on the phone to my adult son about the Edge books and finishing the last (he started complaining there were only 2 Wilmington books and I said House Andrews was diverted by Maggie the Undying). Anyway I went on to tell him that there was going to be a new book in the House series, which he particularly liked, especially the ferrets. So I told him, well,”remember the guy who could turn into anything?” “What? No.” “You know, the detective family worked for him in the first book? Oh. Yes well, he has just finished up a job where he turned into a woman, that’s why I described him as being turned into anything. Anyway, his new client is the sister of the guy with the ferrets. She offers him a job he can’t refuse, and that’s where the snippet ends. So this story will have animals.” Could any description of a story be worse?
I was actually trying to get him interested in reading it.
LOL
+1 – “there will be animals”
Mind-controlled mass-murderer marries mind-bending horror from outside reality.
Reminds me of Gondre the Wandsmith’s videos on YouTube. ‘Movie where the kid marries his babysitter’; Attack of the Clones. He’s fun and a little twisted.
Woman meets aunt. Woman fights and injures aunt. Woman kills aunt, then goes home to a lion.
Eldritch horror wins over pretty boy warrior.
😀 Love this.
Single mom would die for child. Doesn’t. Goes on to rescue humankind instead.
A woman tempts an old flame with baked goods but then vanishes.
Killer cooks and bakes well. The couple retires in a rural area.
Guy with Eeyore fetish drags tree in winter.
Lolololol!!!! I have to pee now.
Halfway down the page and this one made me do a spit take.
Not that the others aren’t funny, but this one startled me into a laugh out loud.
Professional nosy girl seduces unemployed guy with honesty and cookies so she can move out of her mother’s house.
Girl neggs stalker while her sisters conspire to destroy a hospital.
Hehe 😜
Vampires from outer space seek refuge in a small country inn, and enlist a young woman and a werewolf in their quest to kill a wedding crasher.
Foragers are menaced by a monster, saved by a prince.
The door slammed. The maiden screamed. A shot rang out. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon.
Thanks, and a tip of the hat to Charles Schulz. Now I need to re-read Steel’s Edge.
Hemingway has nothing on Snoopy.
<3
Woman whose husband cheats on her ends up with husband of the other cheating partner. They end up in a partnered dance-off with a pair of twins to save their home planet
Neat freak with a tree house adopts stray dog.
😂
+1 great
Priceless!!!
Unlikely adversaries unite to thwart the thieving plans of their cheating spouses, and making mincemeat of their enemies.
Americans visit Europe and discover the joy of cave diving, garden design and shepherding
Cheers ✨
Dance or Die….then piss off your family with a merger!
My partner wants to add one:
The Hatchelor
(For Sot<3)
Bad date turns into meet cute with a brave pig.
Divorced single mother navigates new reality after on the job accident.
Forced into a new way of life after a gemstone gets lodged in her forehead while trapped in a collapsed cavern system she struggles to adapt.
But with the help of new allies and the abandonned dog she adopts she fights her way back to what is most important in life, her children.
Magic grandma with a wrench helps woman with psycho suitors save Houston from a bonfire.
+1
After years of hiding her identity, a young woman uses her sword to secure her future. Along the way, she taunts the man of everyone’s dreams with her skills and forces him to save her multiple times. Eventually she learns how to use her magic for the good of the realm, creating a circle of food, family and love all with just a prick of her finger.
Woman contemplates moving house and raising chickens while fighting dinosaurs and fairies in a creepy forest.
Women brings home large, aggressive cat against her father’s wishes.
Volunteer firefighter destroys government buildings.
Alternative to the volunteer firefighter one:
Community bonfire sponsored by rich, powerful local man cancelled due to unscheduled demolition of nearby buildings.
Woman goes on solo caving expedition without proper gear.
Man’s mother approves of her future daughter-in-law.
Pagan priest turns into a wedding planner for a power couple.
He sticks with the job and diversifies into personal gift shopper for power couples too!
+1
After five attempts, man finally understands woman and gets his head on straight.
A financier retires to pursue the assassin that deeply wounded but failed to kill him.
A billionaire slowly falls in love with a woman he trapped in his basement.
+1
Man has to work over the holidays because his boss is fighting with the wife.
The overtime will kill ya’!
Magical princess spends 10 books planning to kill her father, she doesn’t succeed.
😂this one is so savage, omg
+1 lol
Maybe we should vote for the top 10 or something…
Snort
Ha!
Daddy with issues attempts murderous take over of estranged daughter’s hometown.
I love the reinvention of Daddy issues here.
A mineral dowser goes caving with some coworkers, acquires a dog, consumes questionable substances and mutates in helpful ways in order to get home to her kids.
Kidnapping victim snags reclusive billionaire by endangering his life during investigation.
An unwanted suitor becomes responsible for sending young woman’s grandfather to his grave. She then proceeds to kill the man’s uncle.
Big kitty with moat envy kills primal cousin and evil queen to claim ice age palace.
Woman with daddy issues and a sword breaks everything, finds a large cat and lives happily ever after.
😂
This the BEST!!!!!
Recently arrived family of three force disbanding of multiple Wilmington organizations including local youth-focused recruiter known for aggressive tactics as well as the Irish Cultural Outreach and Extreme Free-Diving Society, within single 24 hour period. Events linked to multiple instances of property damage and one instance of catastrophic harm to local aquatic wildlife.
Ooohhh yaaaasss!
Woman decides gray really isn’t her color.
Love this.
A magical couple try to live a normal, suburban life but fail miserably and end up adopting prehistoric pets.
A man pours all of his intellect & magic into making the world better and his daughter keeps telling him he’s doing it wrong. Oh, and she’s purposely going out with a guy who stands for everything he despises
+1 great
Mutual “Consorts” conquer a castle, decide retirement sucks, and gift talented researcher with an archeologists dream find all while teaching their son to not be a jerk to the regular folks. (Magic Claims)
A young woman struggles with her childhood trauma in sand while attempting to solve a jewel related mystery
Burn for Me: Private investigator digs for clues in rancid spaghetti, protects squirrels, fights against Peaches, and strolls for shirtless men in gardens.
Magic Bleeds: Magic woman has a warm welcome with her long-lived aunt, they have tea/coffee and reminisce about past choices together.
Magic Breaks: Consort and her merry group of friends complete a scavenger hunt in the city at night. They gossip about plums and prancing donkeys. Afterwards the consort gets to take a vacation at an unique sight-seeing destination. The food there left something to be desired, but she hung out until her consort joined her.
Young Woman callously rejected by her finance goes off the deep end of society and ends up exacting her revenge through her gastrointestinal skills.
Thank you so much for this blog post! it was fun to write some and really fun to read what others wrote.
Great idea!
A flashing lady brings several suitors to her yard.
The Edge
Ooh, that’s good!
Beautiful blonde chases hot guy and Houston explodes with passion.
Woman hides from megalomaniac birth father who sent her brother to bring her home
Feminine undergarments are so important, that it’s a prestigious title in major guilds. The best one fights off all kinds of monsters in the breach, all while hearing voices in her head.
Lady assassin wins The Intergalactic Bachelor show at luxury resort in Texas
+1 marvelous
Woman endures kidnapping, blackmail, and mansplaining, from a soldier with PTSD, while investigating domestic terrorism.
Vampire jerk’s widow is snatched with daughter who says funny things, fights everybody, and ends up in the hospital.
Family renovates failed resort despite interruptions by uninvited guests.
Young poverty stricken orphan makes marriage deal with powerful man cagey about his identity.
His mom is going to love her!
Private investigator on a power trip snuffs out man’s warmth.
My favourite fairy tale — a noble on a quest accidentally finds a diamond in the rough and must complete three tasks to win her hand in marriage.
Magical waitress stays in creepy house with weird people and drinks a lot of tea
Wedding guests unsuccessfully try to dine and dash (Maud)
Woman encounters pests while giving a run down b&b a new life. Guests and a neighbour help with eradication.
Lone woman with daddy issues, keeps sword for company. Collects one large cat
Professional finder of lost objects is hired to find one man, catches the attention of another one. After an unknown artifact is eventually recovered, she gets her men and hands them both back. Some magic involved.
Gets lost spelunking and overcomes her Arachnophobia.
In penance for killing family, Empress covertly retires to a backwater trade hub and subtly mentors her host in the fine arts of assassination prevention, interstellar politics, and personnel/entertainment event management.
😊
Professional monster hunter with daddy issues finds a job as city protector and ends up playing house with prehistoric lion.
Lions and tigers and bears oh my! But with the addition of a poodle.
Mother of two gains new family pet after workplace health and safety incident.
and
Refugee commits crime but gets away with it because her boss wants to sleep with her.
Tough girl marries a beast and grapples with daddy issues.
Grumpy hermit with a house full of rescues fights off home invasion.
This one made me realise you could totally sell this book as “A Christmas Carol meets Home Alone with a dash of Dark Romance” 😂😂
+1
+1
🤔Boutique hotel hosts a pageant with diplomatic implications. Hijinks ensue.
Sworn enemies team up to dance their way through slaughter to love and retribution.
Girl goes on a date with a pig-hearted man and comes home with a pure-hearted pig.
This is poetry!
+1
+1
+1
classic stories about a cat lady and her adventures, a lot of blood along the way
Mercenary cat lady works to incarcerated her father while encountering a cast of characters.
Heads of rival houses resolve marital issues with the help of a toaster.
Woman and dog gets left for dead, only to become total badasses instead
Love your opening for the plot explanation, Bec!
I hope you‘ll allow me to riff on it? With attribution, of course.
Woman and dog, left for dead, go on an epic journey across hostile terrain – gathering critical enemy intel, making allies and battling monsters – to save the world, return home and prepare to repel the invasion.
Hm. Looking at this again, I think I got caught up and failed to meet the criteria “badly.”
Man avoiding his family Christmas instead spends the day with extreme landscaping his front yard.
Lion breaks from keep and terrifies neighborhood – Magic Shifts
Mother struggles with officious administrator for her son’s school placement
Jilted spouses team up to win a dance contest and reclaim family legacy.
Cat lover finally over comes her daddy issues while defending Atlanta from a falling blizzard.
*lizard not blizzard
Fight Club, the comedy.
🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant. Is there any HA series or story that this doesn’t apply to?
Traumatized ex soldier is forbidden to strangle a woman with her dress and retaliates with making fun of chalk art
Runaway daughter slays Dragon and imprisons her Father in the Dragons Lost Kingdom.
Twilight, but she chose the werewolf and has a kicky broom.
I wanted to just say
Twilight but she chooses the werewolf.
but my husband said I needed to soften the blow.
Wahahaha I think getting the broom makes allll the difference 😂😂
New mother resumes work after maternity leave.
Woman with daddy issues saves her town with help from a guy with multiple personalities, an ailurophile, and a guy in a dirty trench coat.
A fugitive finds a hairdresser and a money ring before attacking a homicidal lion.
A woman with a green ribbon entices man with bread and flowers.
I think I’ll leave the bad synopsis to the rest of the BDH. 🤣
Man and woman team up to consolidate power and carve up their enemies with sharp knives — without getting a drop of blood on their clothes. (Kinsmen)
One of the best ideas ever! Great job!
Loved the book, but yeah, that was my takeaway.
Sidewalk Chalk Artists, the trilogy.
pfft lolzzzzz! That is an awesome summary for HL
I almost just choked to death on a big sip of Earl Grey. Worth it.
Middle aged woman goes spelunking with a dog. They both regret it and get grumpy about not getting home on time. The snacks are weird.
LOL! The snacks were weird!!
Chick with a sharp stick and daddy issues irritates random cats in her mission to obscurely be awesome in secret.
Single mom with abandonment issues visits family of new boyfriend. Murder ensues.
Wholesale shopping is comminuty building though flying cans weilded by knitters may fly in the this southern romp.
Boy defies parents, rescues lost friends, rules the forest. 😀
After a tragic event derails her career, a CEO moves to a backwater planet to live a simple life of gardening and gossiping with neighbors. Through the magic of friendship and love, she realizes she is exactly where she needs to be and guides others to realize their full potential.
ok, i like this one the best
haha!
Love it!
Single mother wins over beau’s family while giving her precocious special needs daughter a safe place to be her true self.
Woman falls in love with man after finding him peeing in her backyard.
Love it!
😂 Oy! Good one.
Ok. I have a few.
– Mutated orphan battles hot god.
– Anthropomorphic sodium pental and fetching inorganic juggler defeat an evil cadre of old money wizards.
– Sharp-toothed war prince woos polyglot desert widow (with bonus stiletto-weiding baby child).
Love-that last one
All Kate- orphan girl exiles father and moves to the beach to live alone with her cats.
Ooo, this one! Lives alone with her cats!!
Although I kinda want to add something about her renewed focus on house renovations.😺
If you want someone, let them go. But if they don’t come back, chain them in your basement and marry them.
Daughter of tyrant bakes an apple pie and gets angry with her kitty
A cat-loving woman rides on a huge donkey through post-apokalyptic Atalanta and solves crimes.
Workplace Health & Safety violations cause woman & dog to take a long way home causing some destruction to local habitat. Boss agrees to settle for damages.
Good one!
Nice!👍🏽👍🏽
The most beautiful man/woman in the world gives birth while hitting on his/her bodyguard to no avail.
Girl who, while growing up, was deprived of water, repeatedly involved in incidents where mother’s life is put at risk.
Damaged man with drinking problem finds love with a dessert goddess
Spelunking trip goes horribly wrong for a working Mom. Finds hidden strength and new meaning for faithful companions. And office politics can really suck.
A changeling and a necromancer stowaway on a Wyvern in order to avoid punishment.
Father end his life to allow son to fully review all sexual positions with checklist.
Stockholm Syndrome, but with fire apocalypse and eventual HEA
Burn for Me
A book where dead people are actually useful for the People
Queen of the sea meets king of the land in a virtual realm and took out the trash together
Woman come back to the town she grow up after years working as a sucessfull career as the second in comand of a new powerfull group enterprise and meet ex love interest while dealing with family drama.
thank you Mod R, i was having a bad day and really needed a good laugh. this is great !
Helen “The Ripper” maims and kills.
Cat lady with daddy issues solves mysteries in the American South.
Lady falls in love with the man who urinated on the trees at her workplace after growling at her dog.
Woman with beautiful singing voice meets a prince who wants to “Calgon” take her away however she would rather run away with her true love pauper. The classics never die
Poor motherless tomboy with daddy issues builds an army of a family and traps her dad forcing him to spend time her and his new family.
Pretty blond ,meets hunk, they flirt,,big guy shows up ,and drop his drawers.
They all fight a bad guy , and the guys leave..
Poor motherless tomboy with daddy issues builds an army of a family and traps her dad forcing him to be a parent
Woman and unstable sidekick try to prevent fires in Texas.
Woman finds her moody boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend’s missing husband.
Woman cooperates with a large cat to catch a killer.
Woman enters competition to win a rock.
Woman raised in abusive home falls in love with homicidal alcoholic. Lives happily ever after.
A quirky Grandma mechanic puts to use her beloved war machines to protect her family from magical dingbats.
Texas gal stands her ground at home and the local Costco.
Woman fights with her dad then marries a cat she once found in an abandoned building.
OMG, this is spectacular 🤣
+1
1.Man digs moat; rescused by eldritch horror.
2.Woman goes to Walmart, brings home husband.
Assassin defeats target with pastries
Small town business owner juggles bored vetrans, fussy chefs, scheming politicians and opinionated chickins!
Woman climbs endless stairs and stabs people with a knife after killing her aunt.
girl with cat beats father.
A Hot Stalker keeps killing potential witnesses, all while trying to protect dog rescuing heroine from crazy rich guy.
girl shot dog, saw angel, and took back the apples.
P.I. finds Hurricane.
Lady with anger issues stabs a bunch of people in an illegal fighting ring and finally gets stabbed back (sort of) and kidnapped, leading to a bunch of furries fighting in a flying Taj Mahal.
Alternatively, lady and her hot stalker wannabe boyfriend shop for a rock and they a their friends go murder a bunch of people about it.
I’m re-listening to the GA audiobooks and am almost finished with this one. One of my faves! 😁
Boss girl with daddy issues and abandonment issues adopts a kitty and finds a new family.
Local woman just trying to do her job, keeps tripping over international playboy.
While on vacation, lady completes work project and bonds with abandoned dog while coworkers shirk at the office.
Super spy with crazy jitters worships his dog while playing with technology and craving his next hit.
Human lie detector with family drama falls for wrecking ball kidnapper who doesn’t understand boundaries.
The details of what happens after workplace safety procedures and regulations aren’t followed.
😂 A true cautionary tale!
Friends negotiate an interstellar treaty using the power of porn.
(A Mere Formality)
Orphan Airbnb hostess armed with broom defends property rights against aliens.
Reality dating show for galactic warlords hosted by overworked orphan.
Recovering warlord learns about agriculture and marries mortal enemy for tax reasons.
Step brother publicly mocks step sis for being a princess with delusions and daddy issues, until her cuz shows up saying, “ Yes, you whinger, there is some dragon claws!”
Mod R, this was brilliant! The BDH is hysterically creative! I clearly have to re- read my collection again!
This may be fun!
Grumpy girl with a sword and trust issues, argues with a sexy lion- man because why not show interest.
Meanwhile Atlanta keeps switching its WiFi on and off because hey
“Magic Bites” and it’s Tuesday.
Five year old hostage stabs kidnapper in throat. Rinse. Repeat.
Aliens, vampires, and werewolves walk into an inn — and somehow the broom is the most dangerous thing there
Brilliant!
Single mom gets lost at work and starts kicking ass and eating lees.
Ex-US ranger goes on journey figuring out his big brother issues.
A little late, but here’s mine:
Diamond Fire: Wedding almost derailed by entitled child.
(Could be Mia Rosa, Xavier, Conner’s adult relatives, or even Kelly Waller )
In honor of Halloween, I’m digging in the vault:
A psychometrist engages in a multiperspectivity interaction with an off-brand Lothario, which allows her to accept her true nature and adopt a dog.
All the biggest and baddest players in the city try not to strangle a pitiful woman that keeps sticking her nose into places it doesn’t belong. Success varies.
Magic Breaks: Woman finally confronts the father who abandoned her and becomes Queen of Atlanta after they fight.
Orphan helps street kid find career.
Woman stops a war with the power of home renovation.
Family explores new recipes for happiness upon discovery of magic freshwater clams.
Ex-tyrant secretly oversees “Love Island” for long lost relative.
Woman goes on a trip over the ocean, has a date with adopted brother, and a deep talk with local shepherd.
Deadly mercenary with daddy issues is stalked by a big cat and convinced to play house with him.
Man who runs foster home for demon-pets finds the Holiday spirit when he helps a runaway and his dog avoid kidnappers and tells off his deceased brother.
Monarch has picked his bride but decides to make her work very, very hard for it. Bachelorette contest involves killer trees, dancing fish, space chickens, languid cats, pirates, fluffy foxes, barbarians, vampires, and harmonious smothering.
Boy escapes cult by joining the Army. Boy escapes the Army by rejoining cult. Boy then avoids family by becoming an animal-hoarding hermit.
homeless woman with cat inherits hotel
Former drunk rides up to a castle on his unicorn to marry the queen
Child bully magnet grows up, joins organization of professional bullies, and is surprised when they bully her.
Girl saves her crush from giant spider.
Girl with impressive resume (plague prevention, etc) accepts position as assistant manager. While regular manager takes some convalescent leave, several employees attempt to kill her.
Haven’t seen this one yet.
Woman cleans out sticking junk drawer, sends brother and grandma on a sightseeing trip.
A child who grew up in a harsh, wild land is whisked away to a magical house where she learns to play, decorate, and be kind to others.
And the sequel…
After being wrenched away from the magical house, the young girl makes friends and enemies in a new place. She is placed in danger multiple times and is punished for telling the truth.
Woman with freaky weird blood powers, a habit of semi adopting troubled youths and an insanely powerful parent, falls for local Feline Monarch, semi-adopts *his* protege, discovers snarky dangerous ancient Aunt and ultimately has to face down her heritage…
Kate Daniels AND October Daye.
Woman attempts mariticide, daughter contemplates finishing the job.
A woman finds an orphaned kitty in the rubble that like most cats has a god complex.
Girl who ran away from her abusive dad adopts a cat.
Abandoned Widow & child is rescued from a hostile planet, receives a job offer and takes a second chance at love with an alien vampire lord.
Wife with daddy issues brings seafood home for dinner.
Adopted daughter decides to be two-faced to solve a murder while her long lost love receives an eye awakening revelation from an unexpected source.
Galactic Emperor seeks partner in multi-species dating show. Dancing fish and dancing assassin face-off in the final. Several trees were harmed in the making of this documentary.
Small Texas B&B’s entire business plan is renting to illegal aliens and has a permanent guest on house arrest.
Woman seeks revenge after a work accident forces her to try new foods
A wolf and his Angel hunt a murderer and end up fighting monsters in a hazardous waste dump.
Aging woman gets lost while caving but makes a new best friend along the way.
Illegal immigrant mind reader travels to another planet to become a secretary, conducts corporate espionage, drink pink wine, and have sex with her former boss like rabid monkey.
Biggest hint is pink wine.
This is NOT a House Andrews description but I saw this in a newspaper in 1998 regarding a classic movie that was airing and it stuck with me:
“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again”
Hint, her weapon of choice is a farm house.
That vicious killer, the infamous Dorothy!
Freelancer tries to invoice Atlanta for pest control, accidentally adopts a murder-cat with a crown
Boy reports dog kidnapped by pirates. Adventures follow. Later, he learns how to butcher hogs at family’s home.
A perceptive woman is mostly successful at training her new dog, even as she navigates a maze to get to cell reception before her phone dies.
Woman get her man to come back after interfering to get his employment terminated.
Dina book 2
Small business successes result in need for increased liability insurance for local family.
Sworn enemies crash a plane and then attend a dance party.
Man would rather scale a castle wall to spy on wife than ask her what she was doing
(I&C 2)
Knight Rider goes on a hunt on foot, nearly is killed, but succeeds after getting a Ride.
Family reunion, wherein child steals bacon, unexpected guests arrive, and gardening mishaps abound, all while staying in aunt’s off brand inn.
oooo!!! I missed this post!
“A Billionaire kidnapped the wrong girl and now has to pay for all the mayhem she and her family creates while saving Houston from Evil Grandma et al.”
A woman and her canine co-worker wander a cave system while she plots her resignation.
Girl with childhood trauma and major daddy issues:
kidnaps a latchkey kid
murders her aunt who was in town for business
becomes good at land-grabbing regardless of legal ownership
falls for a guy with weird food rituals
makes the dramatic final decision to go no/low-contact in response to her father’s desire to re-connect and be in his grandson’s life more.
Excellent!
Nice!
Girl who assumes every man wants to marry her, refuses to date until she finds she’s ever likely to meet.
Girl’s parents disappear, she buys an old B&B, boy next door makes fun of her, a soda loving senior citizen is her first guest, the boy next door and a possible guest have a pissing contest to make a claim, a hero shows up to separate them, the girl uses her broom to show them who is boss.
A cat lady struggles with family drama.
An emo man working in his family business helps a boy in troubled.
Finally thought of one!
Truth or dare meet-cute plus elemental hijinks leads to lasting romance.
Stay at home mom boards a luxury liner in order to commune with Celtic gods.
A beast stalks a newborn magical baby through a hospital and steals him away from his evil grandmother and secret grandfather.
Woman in Georgia who’s in love with a lion, says her dad want to kill her future son.
That feels a bit like those Florida Man posts to me 😅
Woman swallowed by giant turtle, seeks help from local Women’s group.
And gives birth in that turtle!
Love it!
Man who destroyed city’s when he was in de army, discovers destroying some parts of the city to save it equals summer in a kiss.
This old lady does not horde cats but tanks. Yet you still want her as your own grandmother.
Fed up with unsightly debris, a timely sale promised hope to weary maintenance workers….a three coil liquefier!!
Government worker adopts a rescue dog while on a business trip. Mayhem ensues!
Good one!
a lady paladin in onyx armor must reluctantly team up with a dragon, a doppelganger, and a widowed rat catcher seeking revenge. together they must infiltrate the sorcerous hoards occupying a seers palace to steal the cache of secrets left by a murdered lover. as they explore, they endure a game of cat and mouse with a puppet master and an assassin. facing off against their footsoldiers and demons, our motley heros fight to put an end to an ambitious plot to overthrow the nation
Exotic location wedding guests decide they don’t want to leave. Location residents, led by a widow, her young daughter and her maybe fiance, lead the fight to make the guests regret their decision.
A female government agent takes on some solo work and drastically levels up her resume.
And gets a new dog
Love this one!!!!
His family was destroyed, so this single father will not stop until he sings his revenge.
He sang the song of is people before snatching an eye while thinking, how dare you shout at me you pointed ear coward.
A Bayou Royal searches for something lost. A broken Furry forced back into service. Only together will they find what they truly need.
Chef lures the love of CEO with baking pastries, classic literature and dahlias.
Priest complains about christmas, and faces his past to find love.
Woman with Dog walks through a cave, fights insects and saves spider babies and when coming out again is admired by a hunk
I love this!!
Let me try!!!
A nepo baby with daddy issues and sister complex gets fired by his father and realizes the real costs of living and trying to keep afloat his enterprise without daddy’s money.
Girl hides from her daddy so she can play with swords and cats.
Misunderstood genius betrayed by his wife, best friend, and family.
-Roland POV
Hahahahahahaha
Lonely single female adopts a (very large) cat. Finds inner peace (and world peace) by working out her anger issues.
Middle aged single mother discovers her dog a better friend than any man. Again.
*discovers her dog is a better companion
Two combative CEO’s ban together over Coorporate Espionage and end up dancing to divorce their cheating spouses so they can go on vacation as a couple.
Exotic location wedding guests decide they don’t want to leave and attempt a hostile takeover. A beautiful widow, her young daughter and her maybe fiance, lead the fight to make these malcontents realise bad decisions have ripper cushions.
A woman gets some extra time on a business trip, so she adopts a dog and takes him on a long walk.
Half orphan after managing an animal shelter for a short while, leaves with only one kitten.
Man rolls out the carpet for meet cute at the park. Several hours later, the thirst is real.
Teen with performance anxiety and self-esteem issues thinks handsome internet idol couldn’t possibly really like her.