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941) Wedded bliss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a ship's captain, highborn bastard Morgan Pryce has spent his life sailing away from England. The last thing he needs is a wife. But when he fears that his titled half brother, Neville, is about to be snared by a gold digger, Morgan aims to protect Neville by tricking the lovely crook into marrying him first. He knows he can't allow himself to believe a word she says. If only she weren't so convincing.... Determined beauty Bliss Worthington is...
Author
Series
Belles of London volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero, but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. What he requires now is a rich wife to ornament his isolated ruin, and he has set his sights on the enchanting Julia Wychwood. For Julia,...
943) Dance with me
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Two stories of classic romance.
944) The wife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. Zoe was sitting in her hotel room, in her perfect white dress, looking forward to the moment when she would make kind, handsome Toby her husband. Then, there was a blank. They said she must have fainted, overcome with emotion. But nothing felt quite right afterwards. Did something happen in that missing time? Now, Toby and Zoe have two beautiful children and a perfect life. They are planning their...
945) Child bride: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. Married off when she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to the city of Boston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a wife to a controlling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a mother. After giving birth to three children, Nell's body begins to fail her. Her husband, concerned for her health, pulls...
946) In the act
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the Act begins: "As long as Helen was attending her adult education classes twice a week, everything worked out fine: Edgar could have a completely quiet house for his work, or his thinking, or whatever it was." In Rachel Ingalls's blissfully deranged novella, the "whatever it was" her husband's been up to in his attic laboratory turns out to be inventing a new form of infidelity. Initially Helen, before she uncovers the truth, only gently tries...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Diversion Book edition.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Lowe has two obessions: saving the Stoneford Village Green from unscrupulous developers and researching her ancestor, Louis Augustus Duran, whose mysterious origins perplex her. When a freak lightning strike and a rogue computer virus send her back to 1825, Charlie discovers she must persuade a reluctant Sarah Foster to marry Duran, or two centuries of descendants--including herself--will cease to exist. Unfortunately, Louis Duran turns...
948) Bride by command
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Berkley Sensation mass-market edition.
Language
English
Description
"Finally willing to choose a bride, Emperor John of Columbyana has decided to have a last bit of fun by going undercover as a sentinel to collect his next candidate. Unfortunately, the young and beautiful Lady Morgana Ramsden has no interest in becoming an empress. Infuriated by her refusal--and determined to teach the haughty woman a lesson--the disguised emperor strikes a bargain with her stepfather and claims her as his bride. Determined to avoid...
949) Monsoon summer
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"An epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India. Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor finishing his medical training at Oxford....
950) A man's heart
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The way to a man's heart. "Meghan O'Day and Grey Carlyle couldn't be more different. He's a sophisticated professor of literature; she's a waitress with a high-school education and a love of the classics. He returns time and again to the diner where she works--and it's not just for the coffee and pie! Or even for the conversation... No, it has everything to do with her smile, her sincerity...and her ability to find The Way to a Man's Heart. The way...
951) Honey cut
Author
Series
Lyonesse trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Isolde Laurence is an uncommon bride. She's been raised to do as her father told her, put elegance and duty above all else--but unbeknownst to him, her loyalty has shifted. Now she's in service to the Church, one of the elite spies who work for her uncle, a cardinal. Her latest assignment from the Church? Marry Mark Trevena, the owner of a notorious club in DC where the rich and powerful come to play, and seduce him. But what was supposed to be a...
952) My darling bride
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On a normal day, Emmaline Darling isn't a car thief. She's just a simple girl who runs a bookstore and adores cats. But when she's stranded in the desert and needs to get away from her dangerous ex-boyfriend, she picks her only option: swiping the keys to a famous football player's Lamborghini and speeding away. Football star Graham Harlan is in chaos. First he took a hit on the field that left him with a near-death experience, and now he's promised...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"The community along Oregon's Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families. For years, Liz and Owen have admired their good friends and neighbors, Carole and David, who appear to have it all--security, happiness, and a beautiful young son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace, and all that seemed safe is shattered"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marry in haste... Murder at leisure? London, 1888: Susannah Chapman rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything changes. Thomas's behaviour becomes increasingly volatile and often violent. He stays out all night, returning home bloodied and full of secrets. The gentle caresses Susannah enjoyed on her wedding night are...
955) Divine deception
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
With her father dead and her mother suffering a fatal illness, Fallon Ashby is turned over to her uncle Charles until she reaches adulthood. Abused and neglected, Fallon finds unexpected liberation at the hand of the mysterious Trader Donavon, a local landowner who hides his face beneath a black hood. But when Charles becomes intent on destroying Trader in an act of vengeance, Fallon's newfound happiness may be destroyed.
956) Our little lies
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marianne has a life others dream of. A beautiful townhouse on the best street in the neighborhood. Three bright children who are her pride and joy. Sometimes her past still hurts: losing her mother, growing up in foster care. But her husband Simon is always there. A successful surgeon, he's the envy of every woman they've ever met. Flowers, gifts, trips to France - nothing is too good for his family. Then Simon says another woman's name. The way he...
957) Consumed by fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Evangeline Morrissey remembers the last time she saw her husband: it was during their honeymoon, right before he stole her elderly aunt's earrings and abandoned her. Now, five years later, the enigmatic man who'd broken her heart and destroyed her trust is back. But she's not the same naive young woman who fell for him so easily. Marrying Evangeline and letting her think he was nothing but a common thief had been James Bishop's plan all along. As...
958) Not easily broken
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After years of disagreement over what they both want out of life, Dave and Clarice Johnson have reached a breaking point in their marriage, and matters get worse when Clarice is injured in a devastating car accident and Dave confronts temptation.
959) Gente ansiosa
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situac̤in de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la ̕vspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequęa ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, ̕s lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es a̕s de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa ̤cmo huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la poli̕ca....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A house holds the hearts of the people who live in it. Under the roof of The Blue House, a now shabby but previously grand Georgian villa in West London, the subdivided space is home to five separate families and five very different lives. Sarah has just divorced her husband, Leo, and she's feeling bruised and lonely. And it's not helped by the fact he has moved in with his new girlfriend - Sarah's neighbour Helena who lives in the same house. Her...
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