Download or read book His Captive Bride written by Shelly Thacker and published by Summit Avenue Books. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The warriors of Asgard Island are keeping a secret from their new brides… Kidnapped from a trade fair by a mysterious swordsman, Lady Avril de Varennes awakens on Asgard Island, an enchanted paradise cloaked in mists and mystery, kept secret from the world for centuries. Against her will, Avril weds her arrogant captor, Hauk Valbrand—even as she vows to escape. Hauk believes himself beyond the reach of love, until his fiery captive bride begins to melt his heart of ice. But soon he must reveal the stunning truth about Asgard and its people—and Hauk and Avril must choose between love and honor, duty and desire...now and forever. "Powerful. From the very first page you're whisked away to a world where anything is possible." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “An involving, beautiful story. I thought about the characters often at work, at the grocery store, in my car—wherever I was until I could get back to the book. A definite keeper. Five hearts (highest rating).” -TheRomanceReader.com "An utterly absorbing read! With its richly drawn characters, powerful conflict and vividly imagined setting, His Captive Bride is a romantic fantasy lover's dream. When it comes to sweeping, sizzling historical romance, Shelly Thacker is a shining star!" -Lara Adrian, New York Times bestselling author “If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would! I loved Asgard Island and Shelly’s descriptions made it feel so real, as if I’m there with them. Highly recommended. I loved all the books but this was by far my most favorite!” – Goodreads reviewer “I'm in awe of this author's talent. Thacker has made me want to read all her books. She is so skilled at telling a story with strong, well defined characters and original storylines. This one blew me away!” – Goodreads reviewer “Take me to Asgard Island, please! His Captive Bride is totally engrossing, passionate and SEXY! The chemistry between Avril and Hauk is electric. I highly recommend every one of the books in this series as perfect escape reads.” – Reading Between the Wines Originally published by Dell under the title Timeless. This revised and expanded Author's Preferred Edition includes new scenes never before published. The Stolen Brides Series These regal brides are about to discover that falling in love with a warrior is the most dangerous adventure of all. Each book is a stand-alone, steamy historical romance: Book 1: HIS STOLEN BRIDE (Darach and Laurien) Book 2: FOREVER HIS (Gaston and Celine) Book 3: HIS FORBIDDEN TOUCH (Royce and Princess Ciara) Book 4: HIS CAPTIVE BRIDE (Hauk and Avril) Book 5: HIS SCOTTISH BRIDE (Henri and Aileen)

Download or read book Captive Bride written by Carol Finch and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1987-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Captive Bride written by Alta Hensley and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Salzano s Captive Bride written by Daphne Clair and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Salzano is furious! One moment of passion in the sultry heat of carnaval has had its price. Burning with suspicion and anger, the arrogant Venezuelan is going to track down his errant one-night stand and claim his love child! But he's accusing the wrong woman. Pretending to be her sister, fragile Amber convinces Marco that the baby in question is not his. But when Marco discovers her deception, he vows to take Amber—not as his mistress, but as his bride!

Download or read book THE CAPTIVE BRIDE written by Susan Spencer Paul and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Senet has come to steal Lady Katharine’s castle away from her. But the only way for him to get it is to marry her. Lady Katherine flatly refuses him and does everything in her power to defy him. But, in time, she feels her emotions begin to change as his sharp eyes and strong, battle-tested body begin to win her over!

Download or read book THE BILLIONAIRE S CAPTIVE BRIDE written by Emma Darcy and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dark Knight s Captive Bride written by Natasha Wild and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is the daughter of his enemy...and the keeper of his heart. Richard de Claiborne, the dark earl of Dunsmore, serves King Edward Plantagenet well. Sworn to obey his king's every order, he nevertheless chafes at the command he wed the daughter of his enemy--a man who slew his father in cold blood. But King Edward wants peace in his lands, and he will stop at nothing to get it. If he has to order his most powerful Marcher lord to marry a Welsh princess, he considers it a small price to pay. Princess Gwenllian is a political pawn. When she's forced to marry the evil Black Hawk de Claiborne, she quakes at his fierceness and brutality. But she does her duty to her father and her people, knowing she will never surrender to her enemy. In the halls of Black Hawk's great keep, Gwen glimpses a man who can be tender and passionate-and who teaches her about breathtaking sensuality and a desire so great it threatens every vow she ever made to keep her heart locked tight. As war once more looms between Wales and England, Gwen realizes a terrible truth: she's in love with the enemy. When long-buried secrets threaten to destroy her fragile happiness, she must make a terrible choice-or watch the man she loves sacrifice his life to save hers...

Download or read book Captive Bride written by Rosemary Carter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wedding Deception? "I want you to be my wife." Kyle had asked Liane to marry him not once, but twice, which at least should have argued sincerity on his part. Or, perhaps it was just determination—if he was serious, wouldn't he have told her that he loved her? Seven years ago, Liane would have had no doubts. But then their affair had ended in bitterness and anguish, and she hadn't seen Kyle since. So how could she be certain that he wasn't just out to get his revenge!

Download or read book Captive Bride written by Johanna Lindsey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave -- desperate for the freedoms denied her...yet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings.

Download or read book Alien Warrior s Captive Bride written by Juno Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every now and then, when all the planets are in proper alignment, fate smiles on one lone warrior. HopeEarth is no longer able to support human life and trying to scratch out a meager existence is nearly impossible. Hope is reluctantly forced to sign up for the intergalactic brides program. Just as she's getting desperate, she finds a tolerable species willing to purchase her contract.Because nothing is ever that easy, her ship is hit by raiders and Hope can't keep her big mouth shut when their alien captors torment one of the younger women. Jettisoned into space, her one and only chance at survival is in the hands of a Draconian warrior.LarokLarok is a lone sentinel, standing guard for his mother ship. When he comes across a frail human queen, his world tilts out of alignment. Saving her means a nasty death if his vicious Draconian queen finds out he rescued her. Risking his own life is one thing, but risking the life of his entire family and small son is another.Snagging the beautiful human out of harm's way results in battling the Draconian fleet, destroying a planet and stealing a wormhole device that's their only chance at escape. Larok is forced to reach his hand into the dragon's mouth in a desperate attempt to pull victory from the jaws of defeat. He will either die in the battle of a lifetime or be mated to the most attractive human female in the galaxy.

Download or read book Kept Bride written by Alta Hensley and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Captive Bride House of Winslow Book 2 written by Gilbert Morris and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Captive Bride follows the Winslow family as they assist in the building of a great nation. With courage and spirit, Rachel Winslow stands up to the enemies of freedom. Can she face unjust imprisonment--even death--without retreat? Book 2 from the bestselling House of Winslow series.

Download or read book The Kindred Warrior s Captive Bride written by Evangeline Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Warrior who has sworn never to love again...A hapless girl, kidnapped and sold at auction...When Need buys Lan'ara, he swears not to love her.But can he keep his promise? Read The Kindred Warrior's Captive Bride to find out! Needrix is a Kindred warrior with a tragic past. After losing his pregnant mate during childbirth, he has sworn never to even look at another female again. So he tells himself to ignore the auction going on where a lovely young woman is being sold. But when Need's disgusting crewmate, a three-headed Trollox called Drung, starts bidding on her, he knows he can't abandon her to such a cruel fate. Need buys the hapless girl, swearing he won't fall in love with her and planning to get rid of her as soon as possible. Lan'ara is a graduate of the elite Twyleth Tigg Academy--a finishing school where beautiful young ladies of good breeding are trained to be the wives and concubines of the richest and most influential men in the galaxy. But on graduation night, the school was raided by a band of pirates who stole her away and auctioned her off. Now she finds herself the property of a surly Kindred warrior who has vowed never to touch or love her. He even promises to bring her back to the man who bought her contract in the first place. So her life should be back on track, right?Wrong. Neither Lan'ara or Need knows that she has been injected with the Lust Bacterium, a compound which causes her to need his touch. As her touch cravings grow stronger, Lan'ara finds herself turning to the big Kindred more and more. And Need finds it harder and harder to resist falling for the beautiful female he has rescued. But Drung the Trollox still wants her for his own and has sworn to take her away from Need, no matter what the cost. Will Need and Lan'ara find true love? Or will they be torn apart by evil? You'll have to read...The Kindred Warrior's Captive Bride to find out. Author's Note: There is a scene in the first chapter of this book which may upset anyone who has been the victim of past sexual abuse. Please read responsibly! **This is a Plus length novel--over 100K words long**

Download or read book Captive written by Joan Johnston and published by Dell. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a gorgeous rebel. Defying all the rules, daring to speak her mind, Charlotte Edgerton declared her independence before she even entered the Earl of Denbigh's home. Her new guardian immediately made her a prisoner in her own room—until she agreed to learn the lady-like arts. Furious, she complied. Anything to buy her freedom from Denbigh. She's even marry a man she didn't love to get away from her domineering guardian. In fact, love was the furthest thing from her mind... He was the Earl who vowed to tame her. Lionel Morgan, Earl of Denbigh, had been betrayed at the altar by another woman and vowed that no female would ensnare him again. Then Charlotte Edgerton burst into his life. Denbigh wasn't prepared for this headstrong American—or the passions she inspired on first sight. He knew only that he had to civilize her, present her at court, and Almack's, and then marry her off to the highest bidder. It wasn't until he nearly lost her that he realized the truth: She'd somehow reversed their roles and become the captor of his heart.

Download or read book The Desert Sheikh s Captive Wife written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sheikh blackmails the working-class woman who broke his heart in this royal romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Tilda was living to regret that once she’d had a short-lived romance with Rashad, the Crown Prince of Bakhar. Now, not only had he gained possession of her impoverished family’s home, Rashad was also blackmailing her for the huge debt they owed him—and insisting she pay the price . . . as his concubine! Tilda was appalled—but in no position to refuse. Soon she was the arrogant sheikh’s captive, ready to be ravished in his faraway desert kingdom. But Rashad slipped up by publicly naming Tilda as his woman . . . and under the law of Bakhar this meant she and he were bound together forever . . . as husband and wife!

Download or read book Highlander s Captive written by Mariah Stone and published by Called by a Highlander. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's lost in the past. He's a powerful Scottish warrior. Can star-crossed love find a future between the ages? Search-and-rescue officer Amy MacDougall fears being trapped - both in small, dark places and in a relationship. But while chaperoning a high school trip to Scotland, she's forced to confront her claustrophobia to save a student in a castle dungeon. And when a magical rock in the ruins catapults her through time to 1307 AD, she's alarmed to come face-to-face with a handsome Scottish warrior. Highlander Craig Cambel refuses to trust anyone after the MacDougall clan kidnapped and assaulted his sister. So when he discovers a beautiful woman in a secret tunnel in the stronghold he's infiltrating, he locks her up to prevent her from warning the enemy. But when she proves helpful to his people despite being a MacDougall, he can't stop his icy mistrust melting into desire. As Amy searches for a way back home, she finds her phobia of commitment fading and falls for the brave Scot. But when Craig learns the mysterious woman isn't who he thought she was, all his dark doubts reignite. Will the distance of centuries shatter their hearts forever, or will they give in to destiny and build a happy future? Highlander's Captive is the enchanting first book in the Called by a Highlander time travel romance series. If you like courageous warriors, quick-witted heroines, and lush historical details, then you'll adore Mariah Stone's passionate story. Buy Highlander's Captive to find love long ago today!

Download or read book Captive Bride written by M. James and published by PNK Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I want is my freedom. But the Bratva leader won't take no for an answer… My first husband is dead and buried. I’m left a widowed mafia princess—a dangerous title to hold, especially when one man already has his eye on me. Viktor Andreyev. His own men call him Ussuri. The Bear. Older than me, with a reputation for violence and a cruel exterior to match, he’s no one I would ever choose for a husband. In fact, I’d hoped that I’d never have to marry again at all. But he’s made the price for peace my hand in marriage. And it’s clear that I can’t refuse. I’ve survived marriage to one cruel man already. I’m no fragile princess. I know I can survive this. But the secrets of the Bratva are darker than even I realized, and the more I learn, the more desperate I am to escape. Only one man, and the temptations he poses, stand in the way. He holds my body captive. But he’ll never hold my heart. Captive Bride is book one in the Bridal Trilogy. The trilogy is complete. Reading order Captive Bride, Stolen Bride and Beloved Bride.