Download or read book The Armchair Bride written by Mo Fanning and published by Spring Street Books. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE LOVE STARTS WITH A LITTLE WHITE LIE We all say things we'll regret on New Year's Eve. Lisa Doyle is no exception. At the annual office bash, along with best friend, colleague and flat mate Andy, she contemplates another year as a singleton. Tired, emotional and a little worse for wear Andy challenges Lisa to find love before hitting 40. Lisa bets Andy he cannot land a decent acting job within the next year. Will either rise to the challenge? Is Lisa destined to spend her evenings online, checking out old class- mates? Could Andy's audition morph into something exciting? And could love for Lisa be closer at hand than she'd ever imagined? "Believable characters with great dialogue." "Romance to lose yourself in." "Such a great read. Laugh out loud one minute. So sad the next. Reminded me of Marian Keyes at her best. I really didn't want this to end."

Download or read book The Armchair Bride written by Mo Fanning and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Doyle knows time is running out. She's in danger of becoming the sort of woman who talks to strangers on the bus, wears fur boots and collects cats. She's fast approaching 40 and, as her best friend Andy points out, single. But so is her best friend. Until one day, an invite arrives and Lisa makes the sort of split-second decision that can only lead to trouble. The Armchair Bride is funny, bittersweet and frequently downright dark. A sassy, classy love story for the Facebook generation.

Download or read book The Armchair Bride written by Mo Fanning and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When everyone from school is married with kids, what's the best thing to do? Invent an astronaut husband and brag on social media. Or ... something that's not likely to end badly when invited to your best mate's wedding.

Download or read book The Bachelor Doctor s Bride written by Caro Carson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paging Dr. Love! Cardiologist Quinn MacDowell has no time for affairs of the heart—especially those not related to his job. So when bubbly Diana Connor gets underneath his white coat like no woman has before, Quinn is determined to keep his hands, and his heart, to himself. She's just too…well, peppy…for a man as serious as him. Or so he keeps telling himself… No matter how hard she tries, Diana just can't seem to break through Quinn's icy facade. The hunky doctor must want someone who doesn't come with all of her baggage. But then these polar opposites find themselves working side by side, and both are hit by Cupid's arrow—for which there's no cure!

Download or read book The Spanish Billionaire s Hired Bride written by Rachel Lyndhurst and published by Entangled: Indulgence. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thing billionaire Ricardo Almanza wants is to be married. Unfortunately, the notorious playboy needs wife before he’s thirty, and time is running out, His stepmother’s sexy, debt-ridden personal assistant seems like the perfect solution, so he makes her a business deal she can’t refuse—one million euros for three months as his wife. He might even enjoy being married to Helen...providing he can convince her not to kick him somewhere painful again. Helen Marshall can’t believe Ricardo’s outrageous proposal, or that she’s considering it, but she must help clear her parents’ debts or her family faces financial ruin. The small print on the marriage contract states they’ll be husband and wife for three months in every way—including in the bedroom. But there’s nothing in the contract about falling in love, or what they do when the three months is up and they want to negotiate a clause binding them forever.

Download or read book The Brides of Rollrock Island written by Margo Lanagan and published by Ember. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings—and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she. He will be equally ensnared. And the witch will have her true payment. Margo Lanagan weaves an extraordinary tale of desire, despair, and transformation. With devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals characters capable of unspeakable cruelty, but also unspoken love.

Download or read book Yours and Mine The Bachelor Doctor s Bride written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second shot at love… Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn’t plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter, Kristen, thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he’s raising his eleven-year-old daughter, Nicole, alone. But Kristen and Nicole have other plans in mind—and it involves the best friends becoming sisters. Both Tanner and Joanna are determined to avoid marriage, yet there’s no resisting their growing attraction… FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! The Bachelor Doctor’s Bride by Caro Carson Cardiologist Quinn MacDowell has no time for affairs of the heart, but then a black-tie affair throws him together with bubbly Diana Connor. These polar opposites must decide if the heat between them will burn for a summer, or forever…

Download or read book Black Widow Bride written by Tessa Radley and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her attempt at seduction the night before hismarriage had nearly been his undoing. Wealthybusinessman Damon Asteriades had pushed asideall thoughts of brash Rebecca Grainger for years,until circumstances forced him to bring her back tohis family's estate. There was no reason for him tobecome further involved with the woman societyhad dubbed the black widow bride…save the intensepassion that still burned hot between them. That, and a three-year-old secret she was protecting.

Download or read book The Bride s Antique Ring A Friends to Lovers Firefighter Romance written by Jennifer Faye and published by Lazy Dazy Press. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven days before a Christmas Eve wedding, the bride’s wedding ring goes missing… Selena Blakely, owner of a Bit of Cake Bakery, is the maid of honor for her best friend’s wedding. When she learns the bride’s wedding ring is missing, she’s intent on finding it in time for the nuptials. Firefighter Dylan Adler feels an enormous weight of guilt. One moment he was entrusted with the ring that had been in the groom’s family for generations, and the next moment the ring was gone. When Selena and Dylan realize they both played a part in the ring’s disappearance, they reluctantly work together to get it back. However, the more time they spend together, the more they are drawn to each other. Still, he keeps a wall up around his scarred heart, while she doesn’t trust him to stick around once the ring is found. With time ticking away until the wedding, their search leads them on an epic journey full of twists and turns. At times, they find themselves looking within for the answers. Will those answers surprise them? Seabreeze Wedding Chapel series: Prequel - The Bride’s Dream Wedding Book 1 - The Bride’s Pink Shoes Book 2 - The Bride’s Christmas Dress Book 3 – The Runaway Bride’s Vow Book 4 – The Bride’s Antique Ring

Download or read book One Eager Bride to Go written by Pamela Burford and published by Radical Poodle Press. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pamela Burford just keeps getting better and better!” — The Romance Reader ◊ When four high school friends promise to find husbands for one another if any of them are still single at age thirty, they have no idea how complicated the pact will make their lives twelve years later! Book 3 of the Wedding Ring matchmaker series is One Eager Bride to Go. ◊ The Prospective Bride: Sunny Bleecker, who’s been waiting tables at Wafflemania for twelve years… and waiting just as long for her knight in shining armor to come rescue her. She can’t wait for her matchmaking friends to find him! The Prospective Groom: Kirk Larsen, who’s a college professor, a widowed single dad, and Sunny’s high school sweetheart. Between teaching and raising a toddler, Kirk isn’t looking for romance, but his unexpected reunion with Sunny feels so perfect. The Hitch: Sunny is dubious when her blind date turns out to be her old boyfriend, but her doubts quickly evaporate. Soon she’s walking on air, dreaming of a white picket fence and a passel of kids... until a devastating secret threatens their second chance at happiness.

Download or read book The MacGregor Brides written by Nora Roberts and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts invites readers to meet The MacGregor Brides in a trio of stories about three young women whose grandfather wishes to bestow upon each of them a happily ever after that can only be found through the bonds of love. Daniel MacGregor has been blessed with a happy marriage his entire life—one that bore him many children and grandchildren. Proud of his family’s notable achievements, he is concerned that some of them have chosen careers over love. Laura, Gwendolyn, and Julia are his oldest granddaughters, and the ninety-year-old patriarch has taken it upon himself to play matchmaker by finding each a potential husband. Neither brides- nor grooms-to-be appreciate his efforts, but if there’s one thing Daniel knows, it’s how to find the perfect mate.

Download or read book Toss the Bride written by Jennifer Manske Fenske and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional wedding planner Macie Fuller is having trouble saying "I do." White doves and wedding bells are all in a days work, as is the occasional difficult client. But when her wealthy boyfriend Avery proposes, Macie's reaction shocks everyone. Will she become a monster in a white veil, she wonders? And more importantly, how can she be herself in Avery's purebred family? When Macie comes around, it's not for the white dress or gift registry, but for love. She wants it for life. Jennifer Manske Fenske's Toss the Bride is a warm and witty novel about finding romance on your own terms.

Download or read book Runaway Bride in Blossom Creek written by Lexi Buchanan and published by HFCA Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Travis Tremayne took the garbage out through the back of the tavern, the last thing he expected to find was an unconscious woman on the stoop. The wedding gown she wore was the most shocking of all. It appeared to be far too large for the petite girl. It didn't take long to figure out why she was 'left' at the Tavern—a present for him. A confrontation was coming, Travis could only hope that Avery wouldn’t be caught in the crosshairs.

Download or read book Sinister Stranger at St Bride s written by Debbie Young and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loved St Trinian’s – old or new – or loves a cozy mystery on a grand estate filled with rather ‘interesting’ characters. When an American stranger turns up claiming to be the rightful owner of the school’s magnificent country estate it could spell trouble for everyone at St Bride’s . . . No one can believe it when the headmistress, Hairnet, instantly accepts the stranger’s claim, not: the put-upon Bursar, ousted from his cosy estate cottage by the stranger the enigmatic Max Security, raring to engage in a spot of espionage the sensible Judith Gosling, who knows more about Lord Bunting than she’s letting on the irrepressible Gemma Lamb, determined to keep the school open Only fickle maths teacher Oriana Bliss isn’t suspicious of the stranger, after all she can just marry him and secure St Bride’s future forever. That's if inventive pranks by the girls - and the school cat - don't drive him away first. Who will nab the stranger first? Oriana with the parson’s noose? Gemma with sinister secrets? Or could this be the end of St Bride’s? Previously published by Debbie Young as Stranger at St Bride's.

Download or read book Ghosted written by Mo Fanning and published by Spring Street Books. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love Marian Keyes, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Sophie Kinsella, you'll almost certainly enjoy this warm, but dark romantic comedy. Professional Santa Silas French fills out the same application as always for his regular stint at a New York department store. Ellen Gitelman hangs her jacket behind the counter at the East Side Diner and smoothes out her waitress uniform, as she waits for the coffee pot to stop percolating. A double whammy of bad news leaves Silas jobless, with no money to pay for a planned trip to reconcile with his estranged gay son Joey in Florida. Cutbacks at the diner cost Ellen her job. A chance tip from his local bar gets Silas a job as Santa on a cruise ship that happens to be docking in Florida, where Joey lives with his husband and kids. Ellen heads to a cafe across the street and spots a bulletin board ad selling tickets for a cruise. Her riotous friend Julia volunteers as travel companion. The MS Viking just happens to be carrying 3000 gay men in the mood to party. What could go wrong? Silas soon finds himself involved with some unsavoury business and meets a potential new love in the form of Ellen. Over the course of the Christmas Holiday cruise, the three slowly learn that what they thought they were seeking isn't really what would make them truly happy, and that they are in control of their own choices. GHOSTED is a dark romantic comedy about the continuing bonds we have with our loved ones after they are gone

Download or read book Wicked Whispers at St Bride s written by Debbie Young and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loved St Trinian’s – old or new – or loves a cozy mystery on a grand estate filled with rather ‘interesting’ characters. Gemma Lamb is ready for an uneventful term at St Bride’s, she’s had enough of dastardly deeds and sinister strangers. However, she’s barely back at school before: Unlucky in love Oriana is sneaking around at odd hours Handsome Joe is keeping secrets Militant Mavis feels a scandal is brewing It’s all a bit much, so when a stranger appears, Gemma thinks she’s had enough. But this stranger isn’t so sinister, instead he looks rather too familiar. If Gemma can’t get him away from the school the whispers and scandal his presence could unleash may just close St Bride’s doors for good. Gemma's joined forces with her colleagues to save the school in the past, but this time she's going to have to do it on her own . . .

Download or read book A Wedding on the Beach written by Holly Chamberlin and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a Q&A with the author and reading group guide discussion questions.