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81) Veil of roses
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
From her first Victoria's Secret bra to her first ride on a motor scooter, Iranian Tami drinks in the freedom of an American girl. But looming over her is the fact that she must concede to an arranged marriage before her visa expires.
83) Wolverine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The love of Logan's life, Mariko Yashida, is forced back to Japan by her father Shingen, a notorious crime lord. Once in Japan, she is forcibly betrothed to Kurohagi, a cruel criminal associate of her father, to solidify their business interests. Logan is determined to get her back, yet is plunged into a tangled web of corruption and violence at every turn.
Author
Publisher
Bonneville
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Trying to escape the crippling heartbreak of her fiance's betrayal, Jillian Grey answers a newspaper advertisement requesting a mail-order bride to care for the newly widowed Dalton McCullough's three young children. Jillian and Dalton agree that theirs is a marriage of convenience-and nothing more. But when they realize their growing attraction for each other, they must decide whether to give in to their feelings and risk upsetting their new family's...
Author
Series
[Jennings family series] volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"William Barlow's life has been forever altered: his estranged father is dead, and William has inherited the title of Viscount Farleigh. Along with the title comes a neglected estate, an enormous amount of gambling debt, and one astounding acquisition that will turn William's world upside down ... It is her first London Season, and Lady Louisa Hargreaves could not be more pleased. She has attracted the attention of the Earl of Kerridge, and the two...
86) Put up your duke
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Honoring an arranged marriage to keep his estate afloat, the new Duke of Gage weds Lady Isabella, a beautiful woman who longs for independence, and discovers that none of his previous exploits were half as pleasurable as wooing his own wife.
Author
Series
Singh family trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Avon Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hemdeep Singh knows exactly what he wants. With his intelligence and determination, he has what it takes to build his own legacy away from Bharat, Inc. and the empire his father created. But when his brother calls him home, Hem puts his dreams on hold once again to help save the company he walked away from. That's when he encounters the devastating Mina Kohli in the Bharat boardroom, and he realizes he's in for more than he had bargained. Mina will...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...
Author
Publisher
Square Enix Manga
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Considered nigh worthless for having failed to inherit the superhuman powers of the bloodlines into which she was born, Miyo Saimori lives her days unwanted and unloved. Her stepmother and her very own father have little time or affection for her, and Miyo must suffer being treated as a servant by her half sister who, unlike Miyo, is blessed with the unusual powers of their blood. Ultimately seen as nothing more than a nuisance and a drain on the...
Author
Publisher
Square Enix Manga
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the land... For failing to inherit the boon of unusual power that is the Saimori birthright and bringing shame to the family name, mistreated Miyo is cast out to become another's problem. Sent to the Kudo clan--itself preternaturally powerful--as a potential bride for its heir, Kiyoka,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent's face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna--the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn't see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a vulgar contest that will enrich the coffers of the village leaders. Only Channi,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
Author
Series
Precious pearls volume 1
Publisher
Sweet Briar House Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
1815. Margaret Pearl Beaton is tired of her wealthy, controlling aunt and uncle running her life. After the handsome Joshua Wynn brings Margaret her deceased mother's rare pearls, Margaret decides to escape before her arranged marriage and seek true love and happiness for herself. She shows up unannounced at the docks of London insisting Joshua take her to Lisbon. On board, she learns that he has also experienced grief and heartache which she can...
94) Tidewater bride
Author
Language
English
Description
"Virginia Colony's most eligible woman is busy matchmaking for a ship of brides, though she has no interest in finding her own mate. Will she reconsider when new revelations about the colony's most eligible landowner come to light?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Parents on both sides, all impoverished, had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their children to the progeny of a wealthier neighbor. The joke was on them, however, when it was outed that neither family had a penny to its name. Charles was not the dark rogue of Fanny's girlish fantasies, but he was chivalrously determined that she should meet someone more appropriate for her than he. And for...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
98) Chéri
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Cheri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 12th century Wales, Eleanor de Lacy is forced to become the wife of the infamous Welsh King Brach Goch. Resigned to a life of misery and receiving an ominous warning from the uneasy spirit of Brach's first wife that he is not to be trusted, Eleanor soon realizes all is not as it seems. Is Brach the monster she dreaded? Or is he a handsome and charming man whose gentle ways soon undermine her resolve to lock her heart?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When self-proclaimed 'not very bright' nineteen-year-old Danyal Jilani is chosen for a prestigious academic contest, he hopes to impress a potential arranged marriage match, only to begin falling for the girl helping him study instead"--
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