Download or read book The Bride written by S. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EllieSo here's the deal. I'm sixteen and I'm getting married. Super weird, I know.My dad is a cattle rancher in Montana. Or he was, until he died suddenly, leaving me an orphan (which is still a thing). I'm sixteen months away from being a legal adult, so I have two choices.Foster home, or married. To Jake Talley. The foreman of the ranch and my best friend.It's legal. It solves all my problems. Except now I'm living with Riverbend's hottest cowboy - my husband (in name only of course) - and I'm still in high school. Trust me, no one wants to date Weird Married Ellie.But it's cool. All we have to do is wait it out until I'm eighteen and we'll get a divorce. Then Jake and I will go back to being normal. We've got this. Right?JakeI'm twenty-six, and I never saw this coming. Married. To a kid I've known her whole life. But there was no way in hell I was going to let her live at a foster home, instead of at the ranch where she belongs.Sure we're married but it's not real. Just a piece of paper. My girlfriend is furious but I know I'm doing the right thing - for Ellie. For sixteen months, it's me and her against the world - until the divorce. No big deal.Or is it?This book includes the entire three book series, The Bride, The Wife and The Lover.

Download or read book Child Bride written by Suzanne Finstad and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth-shattering account of the most famous—and most taboo—marriage in rock-and-roll history “Fascinating . . . Finstad’s research and her analysis of Priscilla’s complex character make for a riveting read.”—New York Post The real story [of Elvis and Priscilla] is infinitely more powerful than the myth and, ultimately, tragic; the true Priscilla more complex. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is not, and never was, the fragile, demure child-woman she has come to personify; she is, in a word, a survivor, a woman of indomitable will and almost frightening determination.—from the Author’s Note Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley’s affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before marrying her to fulfill a promise to her starstruck parents. But who is Priscilla—and what was her role in their infamous relationship? Award-winning biographer Suzanne Finstad perceptively pieces together the clues from candid interviews with all the Presley intimates—including Priscilla herself, along with hundreds of sources who have never before spoken publicly—to uncover the truth behind the legend of Elvis and Priscilla, a tumultuous tale of sexual attraction and obsession, heartbreak and loss. Child Bride, the definitive biography of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, unveils the controversial woman who evolved from a lonely teenager bound to the King of Rock and Roll into a shrewd businesswoman in control of the multimillion-dollar Elvis Presley empire—a rags-to-riches saga of secrets, lies, and betrayal.

Download or read book A Baby to Bind His Bride written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amnesiac billionaire claims his wedding night with the bride he can’t remember in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Presumed dead after a tragic accident, billionaire CEO Leonidas Betancur does not recall the vows he made four years ago. But after he is tracked down by his wife, Susannah, fragments of his memory reappear. He denied her of a wedding night, and now he is ready to collect! Abandoned in her bridal gown and believing herself a widow, Susannah now wants Leonidas to reclaim his empire so she can be free. But he is more untamed and dangerously attractive than she remembers! With a single touch she surrenders her innocence . . . And now the consequences of their passion will bind them together forever!

Download or read book Baby Fever Bride written by Nicole Snow and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR LOVE. I NEED A BABY NOW... PENNY My biological clock just exploded. Eighteen months. That's how long I have to make a baby happen before it becomes one more broken dream. Fate has a sick sense of humor, though. Its name is Hayden Shaw. Yes, the Hayden Shaw. Billionaire developer, scandalously gorgeous, his hard-headed ego only eclipsed by his enormous...reputation. The man who has everything except one missing piece. He needs a bride to fool the world. I need a baby. Hello, first class donor material. It's simple business. Strictly professional. A no nonsense, pretend-my-panties-aren't-melting trade. Love isn't in the fine print. No, I don't care how many times I have to stop swooning when I'm in his arms, locked in his kiss, smiling like we're meant to be for the cameras. Simple, I said, remember? Yeah. Who the hell am I kidding? HAYDEN My new wife is completely insane. The spitfire who just agreed to play pretend thinks we're doing this baby thing in a lab, without ending up between the sheets. Too bad I see right through it whenever she says her favorite line. Strictly professional? Please. Too bad I taste how bad she wants it when we're giving the press something to talk about, lips tangled together like there's no tomorrow. Too damned bad she's perfection itself, and 'professional' went out the window the second she stormed into my life. She's also my last chance at stopping a scheme to steal the family fortune, turning my riches to rags. But I'm Hayden Shaw. I'm in control. I don't back down. Ms. Naughty and Nice will never, ever know how bad I'm twisted up in our chase. This isn't Cinderella, and I'm no Prince. Soon, I'll show Penny this isn't all make believe. Consummating this marriage is about to get very real...

Download or read book The Bride s Baby Of Shame written by Caitlin Crews and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He knows the bride's secret...she's carrying his baby! Dutiful heiress Sophie has never challenged her gilded existence, even agreeing to a convenient marriage at her father's command. Then she meets ruthless Sicilian Renzo and one carnal night awakens unimaginable desires...and leaves her pregnant! When Renzo uncovers her secret, he'll stop at nothing to legitimise his child – including storming Sophie's wedding and stealing her as his own bride!

Download or read book The Bride s Baby written by Liz Fielding and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wedding of the season! Events manager Sylvie Smith is organizing a glittering fund-raising event: a wedding show in a stately home. She has even been roped into pretending to be a bride… a bride who's five months pregnant! The bride everyone is talking about! It should be every girl's dream to design a wedding with no expense spared, but it's not Sylvie's. Longbourne Court was her ancestral home, and she's just discovered that the new owner is Tom McFarlane—her baby's secret father. Now Tom's standing in front of her, looking at her bump.…

Download or read book The Doctor s Pregnant Bride written by Susan Crosby and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a secret crush on her boss was definitely taboo—especially when tall, dark and hunky Ted Bonner didn't even know Sara Beth O'Connell was alive! And now she'd agreed to be a corporate spy to save the Armstrong Fertility Institute from scandal…which meant working extra closely with the dedicated doctor. From the moment Ted asked Sara Beth to be his date for a Valentine's Day dinner, the head-in-the-clouds scientist was hooked—even if she did seem to be hiding something. But Ted knew he had to fight for the woman he loved…and convince her that she could count on him to be the family man she wanted and needed.

Download or read book His Callahan Bride s Baby written by Tina Leonard and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marry Me, Taylor." Those aren't the three little words Taylor Waters longs to hear from her crush, Falcon Chacon Callahan. The whole town knows the soldier–turned–rancher just needs a bride in order to inherit the coveted spread north of Rancho Diablo. Taylor wants more–even if Falcon is the hottest cowboy this side of the New Mexico border, which he proves one crazy, passionate night! Family has always come first for Falcon, so when he finds out Taylor is pregnant with his baby, he declares a brand–new mission: to stand and fight for what's his. It will take maneuvering through some dangerous situations–and that legendary Callahan charm–to make Diablo's best girl fall in love with him. But to have his ranch at stake is one thing…what about his heart?

Download or read book An Officer a Baby and a Bride written by Tracy Madison and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steering clear of military men was Rebecca Carmichael's mantra. Until the night she and air force captain Seth Foster took their pen-pal relationship to the next level. But the mother-to-be never expected the sexy soldier to show up on her Portland doorstep months later with an engagement ring! Convincing Rebecca to marry him had been his mission ever since Seth found out she was having his baby. And it wasn't easy getting the won't-budge-an-inch, terrified-of-loss woman to realize they belonged together. Well, Seth could be just as stubborn-maybe even more so. Which meant using every weapon at his command to get Rebecca to make that leap of faith and trust her future to a man who prized family above all else..."--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book American Child Bride written by Nicholas L. Syrett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls--the most common underage spouses--Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial period to the present, chronicling the debates and moral panics related to these unions. Although the frequency of child marriages has declined since the early twentieth century, Syrett reveals that the practice was historically far more widespread in the United States than is commonly thought. It also continues to this day: current estimates indicate that 9 percent of living American women were married before turning eighteen. By examining the legal and social forces that have worked to curtail early marriage in America--including the efforts of women's rights activists, advocates for children's rights, and social workers--Syrett sheds new light on the American public's perceptions of young people marrying and the ways that individuals and communities challenged the complex legalities and cultural norms brought to the fore when underage citizens, by choice or coercion, became husband and wife.

Download or read book Child Bride written by Jennifer Smith Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. Married off when she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to the city of Boston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a wife to a controlling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a mother. After giving birth to three children, Nell’s body begins to fail her. Her husband, concerned for her health, pulls away from her physically. But this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms of another man, Charles— an encounter that leads to another pregnancy, and another unanticipated adventure for Nell.

Download or read book The Bride Test written by Helen Hoang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart... Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who's convinced he can never return her affection. With Esme's time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he's been wrong all along. And there's more than one way to love.

Download or read book Matchmaking Baby written by Cathy Gillen Thacker and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Baby On Her Doorstep The towheaded toddler in the pretty pink stroller came with a blankie, a teddy and a note. Unfortunately, she didn't come with instructions. Like who she was or who her parents were. As concierge of Bride's Bay, Joanie Griffin assumed little Emily was a guest's child who needed baby–sitting. But the baby arrived at the worst time just when her former flame showed up, two years and three months after their break–up. Now she'd never get rid of Steve Lantz. Because when Joanie picked up the blue–eyed baby, she called her "mummy" and Steve assumed he was "Daddy"!

Download or read book How to Get Married by Me the Bride written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is another original 'how to' manual, written by the wise older sister of the first book, 'How To Be a Baby'. This time she's turning her wisdom to getting married - how to choose a husband, how you should never get married when it's dark because then you won't be able to see and might marry the wrong person.

Download or read book There Goes the Bride written by M. C. Beaton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding bells are ringing, but not for Agatha Raisin in this irresistible new adventure by "New York Times"-bestselling author Beaton. Martin's Press.

Download or read book Bride on Demand written by Kay Thorpe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Bentley had always been a man who knew what he wanted. And when he discovered that Regan Holmes had given birth to his son seven years ago, he wanted her to be his wife! When Regan had first met Liam she'd been awed by his power, by his ambition, by his sexual prowess. Now she was older, wiser and ought to know better. But somehow when he demanded "Marry me," she still found herself saying yes!

Download or read book The Bride s Baby of Shame written by Caitlin Crews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today–bestselling author, one night leads to shocking consequences in this thrillingly intense second romance in the Stolen Brides series. Dutiful heiress Sophie has never challenged her gilded existence, even agreeing to a loveless arranged marriage at her father’s command. Until she meets ruthless, gorgeous, Sicilian billionaire Renzo. Their one passionate night awakens unimaginable desires in Sophie, but also leaves her pregnant and trapped in an engagement to the wrong man . . . When Renzo uncovers her scandalous secret, he’ll stop at nothing to legitimize his child—including storming Sophie’s wedding and stealing her away to his castle in Sicily as his own bride. She may be exchanging one marriage of convenience for another, but could Renzo be the one who will finally set her free? “Passionate, sexy, sometimes over the top—classic Harlequin Presents drama unfolds here . . . an enjoyable and entertaining romance.” —Harlequin Junkie Don’t miss the first Stolen Brides book, Kidnapped for His Royal Duty, by New York Times–bestselling author Jane Porter.