Book Description
Their marriage is only for appearances... If their hearts don’t betray them
Author : Jayci Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008904189
Their marriage is only for appearances... If their hearts don’t betray them
Author : Mary Balogh
Publisher : Dell
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345532503
In two classic tales of Regency-era romance from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, the vagaries of love have a way of challenging the most convenient arrangements. THE TEMPORARY WIFE Miss Charity Duncan has no illusions about Lord Anthony Earheart’s proposal. The arrogant aristocrat has made it painfully clear what he wants: a wife who will enrage the father he despises and then disappear from his life. In exchange, Charity’s family will receive the money they desperately need. But after Charity agrees to this mockery of matrimony, she soon discovers a startling fact: She has fallen for Anthony, and breaking their marriage vows may also break her heart. A PROMISE OF SPRING Grace Howard has every reason to be devoted to Sir Peregrine Lampman. After all, the gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his bride. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his affection after she confessed to a youthful folly that had compromised her virtue. But Grace did not tell the whole truth about the handsome lord who betrayed her—and now the one thing she’s kept from Perry threatens to destroy her last chance at true love.
Author : Mary Balogh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Large type books
ISBN :
Author : Leslie P García
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440580952
When Esmeralda Salinas left her childhood home, she left behind the judgmental lectures and cold, unaffectionate parents who never found her good enough to compete with her brother Beto. Esme fashions herself into her own woman, and refuses to let others dictate her behavior or her dreams. After a love affair goes wrong in Rose Creek, Texas, she packs up her horse and moves to even tinier Truth, Texas. When Esme finds herself singing country karaoke in her aunt’s bar, she can deal with that. But when Tía demands that Esme consider a job offer from devastatingly sexy Rafael Benton, Esme realizes that the small town of Truth might harbor some horrific lies revolving around Rafael and his recently deceased sister Cody, who had reached the pinnacle of the country music season only to crash and burn. Still, Esme listens to Rafael’s sales pitch and can’t believe what he offers: almost a quarter million dollars to marry him for the summer. Rafael talks a good game, and Esme knows she could enjoy the benefits of marriage to him, with or without the formalities and pre-nuptials and pretense. But sleeping with a man for the thrill is one thing. Marrying him for money is another. Can she accept a job that would make her rich but might destroy all she holds sacred? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Author : Jeannie Moon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101625597
A woman receives a proposal she can’t refuse from a man she can’t resist in the first Forever Love story. Kindergarten teacher Megan Rossi is devoted to being a mother to her best friend’s five-year-old daughter, Molly. When the child was orphaned, Meg became the little girl’s legally named guardian—over the objections of Molly’s wealthy grandparents, the Campbells. Now the Campbells are petitioning for custody, and Meg is faced with a long and expensive legal battle. The last thing she expects is for her former high school boyfriend—and the Campbells’ estranged son—to offer a solution: marriage. Billionaire software developer Jason Campbell knows his parents don’t have Molly’s best interests at heart—it’s all about control for them. There is one way he can ensure that his sister’s last wishes are honored. He will offer Meg the protection of his name and lawyers until the custody arrangement has been finalized, then he’ll secure his niece’s future with a very generous divorce settlement. Jason’s considered all the scenarios, except one—that the sparks that once flew between he and Meg might reignite a burning passion. And that his confirmed bachelor heart might just melt away from the heat...
Author : Tara Crescent
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2019-01-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781794543492
Fake marriages have rules. We break all of them. Ryder Drake is the devil.The billionaire architect exudes power and privilege from every pore in his body. Toronto magazines fawn over him, calling him one of the hottest single men in the city.Color me unimpressed. Ryder's new skyscraper will cut off access to the waterfront for all but the ultra-rich, and I'm determined to stop it. Then he asks me to marry him. It's a business deal, nothing more. He needs a fake wife and I need money. It should be uncomplicated. Rule 1: No kissing.Rule 2: No sex.Rule 3: No falling in love.I break the first rule within the hour. The second rule? I last less than a week before I give in to Ryder's raw, animal magnetism. Repeatedly. Before the wedding. After the wedding. With toys. Without toys. I'm having the best, naughtiest, steamiest sex of my life. And rule 3? I'm Ryder's temporary wife. No matter what happens, I can't forget that our marriage isn't real.Temporary Wife is a standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cheating. It was previously released in a boxed set.
Author : Sebastian Barry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143127128
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Author : Catharina Maura
Publisher : Bloom Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2025-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781464237454
Luca Windsor is convinced he hates the secretary his grandmother assigned him, but he knows he can't function without her either. Valentina is highly professional, and always a step ahead of him. Despite his insistence that he'd never want her, he loses his composure the second his grandmother mentions pairing her up with another man. A dance leads to a kiss, and the lines are blurred. Except...Luca has always known he'd end up in an arranged marriage, and he knows Valentina isn't on his grandmother's list (or so our silly hero thinks). He attempts to distance himself from her again, but is unable to, going as far as reinforcing a companywide anti-dating policy to keep her from seeing anyone else. When Valentina experiences a personal crisis, he demands the ultimate price for help he'd, unbeknownst to her, already given her: her hand in marriage. The two start a marriage of convenience, and along the way, they learn they're better suited than they ever thought possible, leading them to rethink the 3-year timeline they put on their marriage.
Author : Donné Raffat
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453502246
Donné Raffat had written five books in different countries in which he has lived and traveled. Solitaire, his sixth, takes place in his adopted California.
Author : Claudia Yaghoobi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108488102
An examination of temporary marriage, or sigheh, in Iran through the representation of women within modern novels, short stories and cinema.