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Pub. Date
2018
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tells the story of a young female artist and a middle-aged man who are, at first, very skeptical of each other, but slowy warm-up to each other.
许自南和晏暮青的婚姻是由许自南母亲一手包办,两人相差十岁,所有人都坚信心狠手辣的晏暮青不会给许自南爱情,可是这个三十二岁的男人却是宠她无度,许自南和晏暮青的感情又虐心又暖心。 讲述青年女画家与成熟冷漠大叔型男主步步生疑,步步生情,彼此温暖,共同成长的故事。...
Author
Series
Mercy Falls novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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.
43) Dragon heart
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English
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Where the Cape of the Winds juts into the endless sea, there is Castle Ocean, and therein dwells the royal family that has ruled it from time immemorial. But there is an Empire growing in the east, and its forces have reached the castle. King Reymarro is dead in battle, and by the new treaty, Queen Marioza must marry one of the Emperor's brothers. She loathes the idea, and has already killed the first brother, but a second arrives, escorted by more...
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English
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"Being good has worked out very badly for Lady Olivia Archer. All she has to show for four seasons on the marriage mart is the nickname Prissy Missy. Her prospects are so bleak that her parents have betrothed her to a stranger with a dire reputation. If Phinneas Cole--aka The Mad Baron--wants a biddable bride, perhaps Olivia can frighten him off by breaking every ladylike rule"--Page 4 of cover.
45) Heart of thorns
Author
Series
Heart of thorns trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Mia Rose pledged her life to hunting the Gwyrach, powerful, magic-wielding women who killed her mother, but on the eve of an arranged marriage to Prince Quin, Mia discovers that she is a Gwyrach and now must untangle the secrets of her past.
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Series
MacLerie series volume 3
Language
English
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Marian Robertson rescued a child and destroyed her reputation. Now, to keep her family safe, she must marry the stern, dark-eyed warrior negotiating a truce between their clans -- and risk her heart to protect the truth. Manipulated into marrying the exiled "Robertson Harlot," Duncan, peacemaker for the MacLerie clan, finds his new wife's courage and spirit make it impossible to resist her. But will he put his honor at stake to free her from her past...
Author
Series
Castles in their bones volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old triplets Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz, each with her own secret skill and wish, begin arranged marriages to princes of neighboring nations to fulfill their mother's intention to reign over the continent.
Author
Series
Proper romance volume 4
Language
English
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Isabelle Rackham enters into an arranged marriage in 1850 with the eligible Alexander Osgood, owner of a successful mill in Manchester, England, and who has close business relationships with Isabelle's father. Although she enters the marriage with no illusions about love, but with a will to make it work, she finds her new home in cold, dreary, dark northern England difficult to bear until an accident occurs on a visit to Alexander's country estate....
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Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 13
Language
English
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January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident-- or something more sinister?
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Series
Hagenheim volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1384 England, seventeen-year-old Evangeline, ward and cousin of King Richard II, tries to escape from an arranged marriage, dreaming of a life outside Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics, but when she runs away and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village, she finds herself embroiled in a tangled web that threatens England's monarch.
Author
Series
Mad passions volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Lady Margaret Cassidy left a life of nobility behind in Ireland, forsaking her grieving omeland to aid war-ravaged men in England. Still, she never expected a crue turn of fate to lock her into an unwanted betrothal with one of her English patients--much less one as broken and dangerous as Viscount Powers."--Cover, P. [4].
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
At the height of the roaring twenties, New York heiress Zoe Gifford longs for the freedoms promised by the Jazz Age. Headstrong and brazen, but bound by her father's will to marry before she can access his fortune, Zoe arranges for a brief marriage to Sebastian Hazelton, whose aristocratic British family sorely needs a benefactor. Once in England, her foolproof plan to wed, inherit, and divorce proves more complicated than she had anticipated.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Rósa begins to hear strange noises from upstairs in her new husband's home, she turns to the local women in an attempt to find solace. But the villager's words are even more troubling--confirming many of the rumors about Jón's first wife, Anna, including that he buried her body alone in the middle of the night. Rósa's isolation begins to play tricks on her mind: What--or who--is in the attic?
Author
Series
Heirs of Hansol volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Garrett Song is this close to taking the reins of his family's LA fashion empire ... until the Song matriarch insists he marry her handpicked bride first. To block her matchmaking, he recruits Natalie Sobol to pose as his wife. She needs a fake spouse as badly as he does. But when passion burns down their chaste agreement, the flames could destroy them all ... "--Back cover.
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Series
Consortium rebellion volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Royal Consortium princess Ada von Hasenberg fled home to avoid an arranged marriage to the scion of a rival house. After two years moving between space ports to avoid her father's minions, Ada is captured by mercenaries intent on collecting a vast bounty. She puts up quite a fight and is summarily thrown into a cell with Marcus Loch, the other most wanted individual in the universe. Ada is intrigued by him but learned from an early age never to trust...
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English
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Desperate to help her ailing mother, Philadelphia "Delphie" Carteret agrees to partake in a sham wedding ceremony to her cousin, Gareth. This fulfills Gareth's obligation to marry before his sick uncle passes, and in exchange Delphie's mother will be guaranteed an annuity for life. The plan is perfect. But perfect plans usually go awry. Not only was the marriage ceremony valid, but Gareth's dying uncle makes a miraculous recovery. An imposter is threatening...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Taken in at the kitchens at Buckland Manor after the cruel death of his mother, young John quickly rises from kitchen boy to cook before catching the attention of the daughter of the lord of the manor, who resolves to starve herself until her father calls off her unwanted engagement.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules! But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big - and very messy! -trouble in this spicy, sexy delight from bestseller Suzanne Enoch, Something in the Heir"--
Author
Series
School for brides volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Palmer is impoverished, desperate, and alone. Her father was murdered years ago, and her only sibling is now dead. When an unkempt man turns up on her doorstep, he claims a friendship with her late brother, and the desire to fulfill her brother's dying wish that they marry. Sarah sees no other solution for her situation but to wed the roguish stranger.
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