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1) Texas rain
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Series
Whispering Mountain novel volume 1
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas delivers a tender tale of the Old West, a handsome Texas Ranger, and a mysterious woman fleeing a terrible fate in the first powerful novel in the Whispering Mountain series.
Honest, straightforward, and ruggedly handsome, Travis McMurray is also more than a little bit busted, the result of an ambush during his service as a Texas Ranger. And beautiful Rainey Adams is in a fix of her own:...
Honest, straightforward, and ruggedly handsome, Travis McMurray is also more than a little bit busted, the result of an ambush during his service as a Texas Ranger. And beautiful Rainey Adams is in a fix of her own:...
4) The heir
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English
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Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic.
Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. The brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don't trust, don't stick out, don't feel. When the pirates prepare to sell their unsuspecting passengers into...
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Series
Remnant chronicles volume 1
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English
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The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions seventeen-year-old Princess Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance. Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia steals ancient documents and flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive, unaware...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever.Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
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English
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Continues the author's accounts after she left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, describing her struggles with her daughter's return to the cult and her own discoveries about how to achieve healthy change.
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."
12) Killing town
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he is welcomed by a nasty surprise: he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's future looks bleak. Only a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles--daughter of powerful Senator Charles--might possibly save him...if he pays the price. But why would Melba help save a man she has never met? And,...
Author
Publisher
Turner
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Ugarit, Syria, 1450 B.C.E. Eighteen-year-old Leah, the eldest daughter of a wealthy winemaker, is past the traditional age of betrothal. Vowed to wed the wealthy but cruel shipbuilder Jotham, Leah declines his offer of marriage after discovering that he and his family suffer from "the falling sickness." Enraged by her refusal and his ruined reputation, he blackmails Leah's father, a punishment forgiven only by offering Leah's hand in marriage. With...
Publisher
Barbour Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Come along on a romantic journey, jam-packed with all the angst of marriages founded upon practical choices as well as coercion. Meet nine couples who barely know each other before they find themselves suddenly married--to please family, to stem the tide of gossip, to save the land--joined for life. But can love grow when duty comes before romance? In this exclusive collection, authors have collaborated to demonstrate the power of faith within the...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Naila?s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: She may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up?but they will choose her husband. Following their cultural tradition, they will plan an arranged marriage for her. And until then, dating?even friendship with a boy?is forbidden. When Naila breaks their rule by falling in love with Saif, her parents are livid. Convinced she has forgotten who she...
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.
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Series
Hearts along the river volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Tyler wears the burden of legally being a divorcee, a difficult position for an upstanding young woman to find herself in. While attempting to start a new life for herself, an unexpected turn of events once again has Annabelle married--this time to Harrison Graymoor, the most eligible, yet elusive, bachelor in Philadelphia. Harrison assures her that he will secure an annulment immediately, unaware that the constable...
18) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
19) Gingham bride
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Fiona O'Rourke doesn't believe in love - certainly not in a marriage arranged by her cruel father. Even if her unexpected betrothed seems honorable and kind, can she trust his motives ... or the attraction between them? Ian McPherson didn't come to Montana to take a wife. But he's instantly drawn to Fiona. He wants to protect her - even if that means pretending that they're engaged. In a season of surprises and miracles, there's nothing he won't give...