Download or read book The Governess s Convenient Marriage written by Amanda McCabe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortune smiles on a former lady turned French governess when she reunites with an ambitious young man from her past in this Victorian romance. When Lady Alexandra Mannerly last saw Malcolm Gordston, he was a poor crofter’s son—someone a sheltered duke’s daughter would never be allowed to marry. But after scandal rocked her arrogant family, Alex’s prospects changed dramatically. Now she leads a quiet life as a governess in Paris—where she meets Malcolm again! Though Alex is embarrassed by her predicament, Malcolm is delighted to see her again. The humble young man has grown up to be a wealthy and powerful department store owner. All he lacks is the woman he never forgot . . .

Download or read book The Convenient Marriage written by Georgette Heyer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER '[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS _____________ Horry Winwood doesn't play by the rules. So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a loveless marriage to a wealthy man to settle the family debts, young and headstrong Horry proposes to marry him in her sister's place. As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy. Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting. But there is bad blood between Horry's husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick. Will Horry's gamble cost her everything she holds most dear? _____________ 'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN 'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA 'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS _____________ Readers love The Convenient Marriage . . . ***** 'Another good read from Heyer!!! I absolutely loved the characters!!!' ***** 'Heyer's characterizations just sparkle and shine.' ***** 'Absolutely delightful. As expected, really.' ***** 'I enjoyed this historical romance very much.' ***** 'Splendid comedy, with a charming romance.'

Download or read book The Governess and Mr Granville written by Abby Gaines and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic Granville needs a wife--whether he wants one or not And governess Serena Somerton intends to find one for him. A marriage of convenience would provide the wealthy widower's five children with a mother's tender care. And yet none of Dominic's prospective brides can meet Serena's increasingly high standards. Unconventional, certainly. Outspoken, to be sure. Even so, Miss Somerton's quirks can't curb Dominic's growing interest in the spirited young woman. After his wife's death, Dominic was sure he couldn't love again. But faced with the prospect of losing Serena to another, one fact becomes clear. His imperfect governess could be his ideal wife.

Download or read book Not Just a Convenient Marriage written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedded in Venice… Starting again is meant to be the purpose of Sally Franklin's trip to Venice. Not finding herself spontaneously married to enigmatically handsome Damiano Ferrone! Maybe it was the magic of Venice or simply Damiano's captivating good looks that made his proposal impossible to resist! Damiano needs the perfect mother for his little boy—and a marriage of the utmost convenience. But before long Damiano is seeing Sally in a whole new light and realizing he's got a lot more than he bargained for…a wife for real!

Download or read book Wooing His Convenient Wife the Governess and the Brooding Duke written by Annie Burrows and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wooing His Convenient Wife - Annie Burrows A convenient marriage that could help them both! Jasper Patterdale may be an Earl's estranged younger son, but his efforts to help his brother have backfired, landing him in trouble! He's out of options when feisty stranger Penelope Brinsley offers him a lifeline -- she'll pay off his debts if he'll marry her so she can gain control of her family business. It's a practical match on paper...until an inconvenient desire to share the marriage bed changes their deal completely! The Governess and the Brooding Duke - Millie Adams Her new employer is the only man to tempt her! One could never be prepared for a Duke, thinks governess Mary McLaren upon meeting her imposing new employer, Samuel, the Duke of Westmere. There to tame his disobedient children, she finds their widower father is cold and forbidding, but with a strength she finds oddly reassuring. She's escaped a brutal past in Scotland and should steer clear of entanglements. If only she didn't crave the forbidden intimacy of their moments alone...

Download or read book A Debutante in Paris Secrets of a Wallflower the Governess s Convenient Marriage written by Amanda McCabe and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets Of A Wallflower A secret shared...but can she trust him? Diana Martin is thrilled to be a writer covering the Parisian Exposition. Her new role must be kept quiet - her parents would never allow it! When enigmatic Sir William Blakely discovers her ruse, he knows it could lead her into danger. With the sparks igniting between them, William realises the only way to protect Diana is by staying as close to her as possible! The Governess's Convenient Marriage A Lady turned governess...a life-changing proposal! When Lady Alexandra Mannerly last saw Malcolm Gordston, he was a poor crofter's son - someone a sheltered duke's daughter would never be allowed to marry. But scandal has rocked her arrogant family, and Alex now leads a quiet life as a governess in Paris - where she meets Malcolm again! Now he's a wealthy, powerful department store owner...and determined to make her his bride!

Download or read book The Governess s Secret Baby written by Janice Preston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty who tamed the beast… New governess Grace Bertram will do anything to get to know her young daughter, Clara. Even if it means working for Clara's guardian, the reclusive and scarred Nathaniel, Marquess of Ravenwell! Nathaniel believes no woman could ever love a monster like him, until Grace seems to look past his scars to the man beneath… But when he discovers Grace is Clara's mother, Nathaniel questions his place in this torn-apart family. Could there be a Christmas happy-ever-after for this beauty and the beast?

Download or read book The Rags to Riches Governess written by Janice Preston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From impoverished governess… …to wealthy heiress Governess Leah Thame learns she’s inherited a fortune the day her employer, the enigmatic Earl of Dolphinstone, returns from abroad. They share an instant connection, but in order to claim her inheritance, Leah must resign and find a husband. The guarded widower offers a convenient marriage to stop her leaving, but Leah refuses. She won’t marry the man who’s captured her heart unless there’s a chance of her love being returned… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Lady Tregowan’s Will Book 1: The Rags-to-Riches Governess

Download or read book The Governess s Guide to Marriage written by Liz Tyner and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prim and proper governess... Locked in with a duke! Believing her grandmother is gravely ill, governess Miranda Manwaring takes leave to care for her, but instead finds herself captive in a rundown cottage with a powerful stranger. Shock number one—the man is the eligible Duke of Chalgrove. Shock number two—their captor is Miranda’s eccentric grandmother, looking to guide Miranda to a titled husband! Miranda refuses to trick him into marriage, but her grandmother’s meddling can’t possibly work…can it? “What I love about Ms Tyner’s work [is that] she takes what is a very basic trope and storyline and gives it a twist and it ends up being fresh and new… A lovely and original romance … Imaginative and complex.” —Chicks, Rogues and Scandals on To Win a Wallflower “This is a wonderfully, entertaining and original story… This is definitely a page-turner.” —Chicks, Rogues and Scandals on Saying I Do to the Scoundrel

Download or read book The Bargain written by Mary Jo Putney and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mismatched lovers and unexpected attraction catch fire in this timeless Regency romance by the New York Times bestselling author. Forced to wed to keep her inheritance, independent Lady Jocelyn Kendal finds an outrageous solution: she proposes marriage to Major David Lancaster, an officer dying from his Waterloo wounds. In return for making her his wife, she will provide for his governess sister. But after the bargain is struck and the marriage is made, the major makes a shocking, miraculous recovery. Though they agree to an annulment, such matters take time . . . time enough for David to realize he is irrevocably in love with his wife. Haunted by her past, Jocelyn refuses to trust the desire David ignites in her. She never counted on a real husband, least of all one who would entice her to be a real wife. But some bargains are made to be broken—and his skilled courtship is impossible to resist . . . Praise for Mary Jo Putney “Putney’s endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight.” —Sabrina Jeffries “A complex maze of a story twisted with passion, violence, and redemption. Miss Putney just gets better and better.” —Nora Roberts “A gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romance work.” —Amanda Quick “No one writes historical romance better.” —Cathy Maxwell “Dynamite!” —Laura Kinsale

Download or read book Married For His Convenience written by Eleanor Webster and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tainted by illegitimacy, plain Sarah Martin has no illusions of a grand marriage. So when the Earl of Langford makes a proposal which will take her one step closer to finding her half–sister, she can't refuse! Sebastian's ideas of love died with his late wife's affair, so he needs a convenient wife to be help his daughter. Yet Sarah surprises him, and soon Sebastian can't deny the joy his bride could bring to his life – and his bed!

Download or read book A Too Convenient Marriage written by Georgie Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret carried down the aisle! Late one night, Susanna Lambert, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Rockland, bursts uninvited into a stranger's carriage, turning both their worlds upside down. Suddenly, fun-loving Justin Connor finds himself forced to consider marriage! For Susanna, marrying Justin is a chance to finally escape her cruel stepmother and forget about the rake who ruined her. But as wedding bells begin to chime, Susanna discovers she's carrying a huge secret…one that could turn to dust all promises of happiness as Justin's wife!

Download or read book Governess written by Ruth Brandon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever." However, in an ironic paradox, the governess, so marginal to her society, was central to its fiction-partly because governessing was the fate of some exceptionally talented women who later wrote novels based on their experiences. But personal experience was only one source, and writers like Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry James, and Jane Austen all recognized that the governess's solitary figure, adrift in the world, offered more novelistic scope than did the constrained and respectable wife. Ruth Brandon weaves literary and social history with details from the lives of actual governesses, drawn from their letters and journals, to craft a rare portrait of real women whose lives were in stark contrast to the romantic tales of their fictional counterparts. Governess will resonate with the many fans of Jane Austen and the Brontës, whose novels continue to inspire films and books, as well as fans of The Nanny Diaries and other books that explore the longstanding tension between mothers and the women they hire to raise their children.

Download or read book Married for His Convenience written by Eleanor Webster and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plain countess… Tainted by illegitimacy, plain Sarah Martin has no illusions of a grand marriage. So when the Earl of Langford makes her a proposal that will take her one step closer to finding her half sister, she can't refuse! Sebastian's dreams of romance died with his late wife's affair, so now he needs a convenient wife to act as governess for his silent daughter. Yet Sarah continues to surprise and challenge him, and soon Sebastian can't deny the joy his new bride could bring to his life—and into his bed!

Download or read book Harlequin Historical December 2018 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Tatiana March and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! THE MARSHAL’S WYOMING BRIDE by Tatiana March (Western) When enigmatic US Marshal Dale Hunter helps innocent Rowena McKenzie when she’s accused of murder, she offers him her inherited ranch—but Dale will only accept if Rowena agrees to marry him! THE GOVERNESS’S CONVENIENT MARRIAGE Debutantes in Paris by Amanda McCabe (Victorian) Lady Alexandra is shocked to be reunited with Malcolm Gordston, the man she was never allowed to marry. He’s now incredibly wealthy, and despite her family’s scandal, determined to make her his bride! FORBIDDEN TO THE GLADIATOR by Greta Gilbert (Roman) When her father loses his wager on a gladiator fight, Arria is forced into slavery. She becomes captivated by her burning attraction for gladiator Cal. Can she give him a reason to fight for their freedom? Look for Harlequin® Historical’s December 2018 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

Download or read book Marianne s Marriage of Convenience written by Lynna Banning and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman intends to put business over pleasure in this charming historical romance. “Banning’s talent for crafting warm, delightful tales once again wins.” —RT Book Reviews “I want you to marry me.” A wedding in Smoke River, Oregon . . . Marianne Collingwood has inherited a business, the perfect escape from her life of drudgery. There’s one condition: to claim the business, she must be married! Her coworker, handsome Lance Burnside, will have to be the groom—this marriage of convenience will help them both. Only once it’s too late does she consider the question of the marriage bed they must share . . .

Download or read book The Convenient Marriage written by Georgette Heyer and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: