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2) The wives
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia--a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone--until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage....
Author
Series
Romancing the seas volume 1
Publisher
Burton & Burchell
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Imagine you are engaged to a prince but your father gambled away your dowry and sold you to a pirate captain, who you are forced to marry. He is cold and ruthless so you run away but you get captured by more pirates.They're just about to hurt you when your pirate husband shows up with his sword at the neck of the captain as he roars, "Touch my Wife and I will destroy you all."
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce-except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno's famous "divorce ranches," Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks' residency that...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Why, when there is so much evidence of the detrimental, suffocating impact marriage has on women's lives, does the myth of marital bliss still prevail? If the feminist project has been so successful, why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man? In her most incendiary and controversial book to date, Clementine Ford exposes the lies used to sell marriage to women to keep them in service to men and...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Watch out for karaoke mishaps that result in a fake engagement...because weddings are forever... When librarian Cecily Jane Allerton and hotshot struggling author Nate Ellis are caught in a compromising position during their MFA program, they decide to get married to keep the haters from destroying their careers. To the horror of Cecily's family, which is a big fan of big white weddings, they elope to City Hall. Now they're back on Block Island,...
Author
Series
Kings of Avalier volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old Madelynn is promised to marry the vile Fae King Lucian, she is determined never be a happy wife, but as she spends more time with him, she cannot deny her growing feelings.
Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Anne Mattas longs to turn back the clock. Before her husband, Sam, went to serve his country in the war, he was the man everyone could rely on-responsible, intelligent, and loving. But the person who's come back to their family farm is very different from the protector Annie remembers. Sam's experience in the Pacific theater has left him broken in ways no one can understand-but that everyone is learning to fear. Tongues start wagging after...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The last person that Samuel Beresford expected to fish out of a freezing, perilous river was Julia Livingston. The girl who was once an outcast in his village is now a woman and the talk of the ton for her beauty. When his daring rescue compromises them into marriage, but Julia is hesitant to trust anyone from her childhood, can Samuel prove he's no longer the boy she knew?"--
12) Damned if I duke
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her plan to blackmail Jasper Vincent, Duke of Montford, into forgiving her father's debts backfires, Prudence Thorne is forced into marriage neither wanted-and fighting a desire neither expected-only to discover they are each other's perfect match.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Claiming the rancher's heir: "Arrogant, infuriating, insufferable... And the sexiest man she's ever met in her life. Wren Maxfield hates Creed Cooper, but now she's working with the wealthy rancher over the holidays! Those strong feelings hide undeniable chemistry...and one wild night results in pregnancy. Now, Creed vows to claim his heir. That means proposing a marriage in name only. But as desire takes over, is that a deal they can keep?"--Page...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mira Dean is reconciled to her life as a spinster schoolteacher until preacher Gordon Covington shows up in town with an audacious marriage proposal. Following him to the mountains takes courage, but Mira will see that doors she thought closed forever may be opening after all"--
15) Warbreaker
Author
Series
Warbreaker volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
T'Telir, capital of Hallandren, is a colorful city by the sea where gaily dressed crowds bustle through sunny streets and worship heroes who have been reborn as gods. Ruled by the silent, mysterious God King, the pantheon is nourished by offerings of "breath", the life force that keeps them alive and youthful. Exiled in Idris, the former royal family reluctantly betrothed a princess to the God King. Arriving in T'Telir, she finds both the city and...
16) Just say yes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jimena Ramos had no idea she was undocumented. Now she's seventeen, and shee needs to figure out a way to stay in New York City, the only home she can remember. There's just one possibility that will get her a green card quickly enough: Jimena is going to find an American to marry her. She's got one excellent candidate: Vitaly, her next-door neighbor and friend, the only person she trusts with her secret. But Vitaly's got his own plans for the future....
17) Leather & lark
Author
Series
Ruinous love trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Slowburn, a Zando Imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can't stand each...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As daughter of a well-known matchmaker, Catríona Daly is no stranger to the business of love--and sees it as her ticket away from the sleepy village that only comes alive during the annual matchmaking festival. Enter Lord Osborne's son, Andrew, who has returned to the festival after being disappointed by a rival matchmaker's failed setup. Catríona seizes the opportunity to make a better match for the handsome man--and for herself! Cattle farmer...
Author
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A unique recovery programme created by one of the worlds leading on-line authorities on Narcissistic Abuse. Narcissistic abuse was originally defined as a specific form of emotional abuse of children by narcissistic parents, more recently the term has been applied more broadly to refer to any abuse by a narcissist (someone that who admires their own attributes), in particular adult-to-adult relationships the abuse may be mental, physical, financial,...
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