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121) The stolen marriage
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English
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"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
122) Rock paper scissors
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney. Think you know the person you married? Think again ... Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole...
123) Yours and mine
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English
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Enjoy again this classic heartwarming romance by one of the genre's most popular authors, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he's raising his eleven-year-old daughter alone. But the girls...
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Series
Harlequin heartwarming volume 305
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Single mom Gabby Rogers needs help raising her newborn triplets, so when her friend Seth proposes a marriage of convenience, she agrees--on the condition it doesn't ruin their friendship. As far as the town of Eagle's Rest knows, Gabby and Seth are the perfect couple, but the imaginary romance soon feels surprisingly real. With Christmas drawing closer, will Gabby risk showing Seth how she truly feels?"--Back cover.
125) Highland scandal
Author
Series
Scandalous series (Julia London) volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jack Haines, the Earl of Lambourne, flees into the remote Highlands when a price is put on his head and agrees to a temporary marriage to the fiery-spirited Lizzie Beal if her bounty hunter brothers will not turn him in.
126) A model of devotion
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English
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"She's finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it? A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry.Nick Ryder came into Jilly's life when he saved her mother from her no-good stepfather, and he's...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Carlyle is searching for an epic love as she heads to college in 1979 after the loss of her beloved mother to cancer. When a charismatic boy named Anders rapes her on their first date, she wants nothing more than to forget it ever happened. But as the years pass, each life decision she makes seems driven by what happened that night. When Anders becomes famous as an actor, Margaret can no longer ignore her past--and she must make choices...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Welcome to Too Much--where the women are strong-willed and the men are handsome yet shiftless. Ever since Mary Dell Templeton and her twin sister Lydia Dale were children, their Aunt Velvet has warned them away from local boys. But it's well known that the females in Mary Dell's family have two traits in common--superior sewing skills and a fatal weakness for men. While Lydia Dale grows up petite and pretty, Mary Dell just keeps growing. Tall, smart,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca didn't know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other's ideal (and perhaps only) match. But twenty years later, Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the damage and secrets that ignited their love begin to consume their marriage. Paul is cheating on Rebecca, and his affair gets messy...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances. One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder--it's always the husband, isn't it?--but the police could never build a strong case against...
131) The favor
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands. Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don't-ever-find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don't-ever-discuss their problems...
132) The Rough rider
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Series
Four corners ranch volume 4
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"When Alaina finds herself pregnant and alone, she knows she's in a tight spot. Small towns like hers tend to raise eyebrows at unwed mothers, and she knows the vicious gossip mill will soon be churning. Thankfully, her ruggedly stoic childhood protector, Gus McCloud, knows a thing or two about guarding secrets. Offering Alaina a marriage on paper is the least he can do. As a hardworking rancher, Gus is well equipped to provide for Alaina and her...
133) To wed an heiress
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rebellion drove Mercy Rutherford to Scotland to escape the possessive grip of her fiancé. But it's fate that lands her in the crumbling highlands castle of Lennox Caitheart. A dreamer with visions of inventing airships, he's most certainly mad. Handsome beyond words, he's also causing an irresistible flutter in her stomach beyond reason. When Gregory arrives to see their arranged marriage to its bitter end, Mercy desperately turns to Ross with an...
134) The affair: a novel
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English
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"When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her mainly, and the world. But Nicolas,...
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English
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"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As Jo Fussner keeps the Marketplace humming, her heart dances with a joyous secret. Jo and Michael Wengerd, a shy nursery owner from a nearby town, have fallen hopelessly in love. When Michael buys a courting buggy, Jo is sure a proposal will follow. But she'll have to work hard to gain her mother's approval-because the widowed Drusilla Fussner is convinced that marriage will bring her daughter nothing but heartache. To win Jo's hand, Michael enlists...
137) All she ever dreamed
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Series
Boulder Creek romance volume 2
Publisher
RobinSong, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Betrothed in a sensible match, even if the man isn't the love she's always imagined, Sarah McNeal relies on the advice her late grandmother gave as well as her own common sense. Dreams of a mysterious European count who rides in and sweeps her off her feet are the stuff of girlhood. And she's a woman now. But when her fiancé's older brother, Jeremiah, returns to Boulder Creek, he unknowingly awakens that discarded dream. Nine years ago, Jeremiah...
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Series
Mercy Falls novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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In 1910, New York socialite Olivia resists an arranged, socially advantageous marriage. The mysterious death of her sister Eleanor in Northern California is an unhappy but convenient excuse to go West. On the way, she is nearly drowned, and decides to hide her identity when she arrives in Mercy Falls.
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Across history, marriage has often been used as a means to gain money, social status, and security, as well as basic companionship and family. Could love really come in the bargain? Here are nine stories of women journeying into marriage hoping to be content-- but dreaming of love, and filled with faith.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True, a twisty psychological suspense novel following the intertwining fates of three people"--
Every marriage has its secrets.... Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis's death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about...
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