On her seventeenth birthday, Megan of Chaumont discovers she'll be sold as a bride to the brutish Volodane family-within hours. Her father grants only that she may choose which one of the ruthless, grasping lord's three sons she weds:...
Arranged marriage
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Author:Hendee, BarbSummary: - Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed...
- Author:Sharafeddine, FatimaSummary:
Faten’s happy life in her village comes to an abrupt end when her father arranges for her to work as a servant for a wealthy Beirut family with two spoiled daughters. What does a bright, ambitious seventeen-year-old do when she is...
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Author:Kankesan, KoomSummary:Thambi Navaratnam is a young Tamil living with his mother and brother in Scarborough. He wholeheartedly intends to avoid the fate of his brother: arranged marriage. But it’s all anyone can talk about. Marriage… marriage… marriage. To...
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Author:Springer, NancySummary:While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
- Author:Miller, Linda LaelSummary:
Determined to honor an old promise, an undercover investigator struggles to shield a childhood friend from danger while resisting the pristine allure of the woman she's clearly become. But he may have underestimated the distraction of...
- Author:Dodd, ChristinaSummary:
Chloe Conte retreats to an isolated cottage at Bella Terra, a private vineyard with a violent past, to write her second mystery novel, but is distracted by Eli Di Luca, a mysterious man whose dark secrets put her in great danger.
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Author:Fantaskey, BethSummary:Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting...
- Author:Henley, VirginiaSummary:
Strong-willed and free spirited, Marjory de Warenne long ago gave her body and soul to the charming and beguiling Guy de Beauchamp. But her family never approved of the pairing. Now on the eve of war--and an arranged marriage to another...
- Author:Lindsay, YvonneSummary:
Alexander del Castillo and Loren Dubois have been betrothed almost all their lives--thanks to an agreement made between their old-fashioned dads. But playboy Alexander never really gave the matter any serious thought--until now. With...
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Author:Hunter, Kristi AnnSummary:Life for Lady Adelaide Bell was easier if she hid in her older sister's shadow-which worked until her sister got married. Even with the pressure of her socially ambitious mother, the last thing she expected was a marriage of convenience...
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Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary:a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in...
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Author:HOSSEINI, KhaledSummary:This is the story of an unusual and lifelong friendship between two Afghan women, spanning from the idyllic mid 1950s to post-September 11 Kabul. Bound by tragedy and fate, by political circumstance and custom, the two women live...
- Author:Masters, Meg, Zafar, SamraSummary:
"At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and...
- Author:Gist, DeeanneSummary:
Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house. Yet fate brings him to Constance, who claims...
