Download or read book A Christmas Engagement written by Ellie Thomas and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-24 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1805, Charles Denham’s comfortable life in Regency London with his long-term partner Avery Mallory is disrupted by the sudden death of his father. As the heir to a modest country estate in Gloucestershire, Charles returns home to care for his bereaved family and take up his new responsibilities. Overwhelmed with grief, rather than leaning on Avery, Charles becomes fixed on the idea of taking a wife for reasons of family duty alone. With this plan in mind, he travels the short distance to Bath only to find that Avery and his family have already arrived at the resort. Will Charles follow through with his ill-conceived plan for a hasty betrothal by Christmas? Or will he come to his senses and resume his relationship with the nicest man in England?

Download or read book A Christmas Engagement written by Linda Byler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling Amish novelist Linda Byler spins a sweet tale of heartache, disappointment, and ultimately hopes fulfilled at Christmastime. Liz had been in love once, had even been engaged. In fact, the wedding had been planned, the barn cleaned, and the celery was set to be harvested to make the traditional wedding soup. Just two weeks before the day she was to exchange vows with her beloved, he changed his mind, and that was that. The humiliation was almost as bad as the heartbreak. The whole community had celebrated her engagement, had participated in the wedding planning, had started giving her advice on keeping a home and raising children. When the wedding was canceled, no one knew what to say. She had to bear the pitying looks and awkward glances for many months. She vowed never to be such a fool again, never to trust her heart to a man who could just up and leave her with hardly an explanation. She'd rather be an old maid than go through that again. Years pass, and Liz has made peace with her life as a single woman, a "leftover blessing" as the Amish say. She can admit to herself that Matthew, the owner of the Amish restaurant at the market where she works, is handsome. And she is aware that he is single. But she reminds herself over and over that it's not worth feeling anything for the man. He's her boss and that's it. So why does she look forward to work so much every day? And why can't she make her heart beat at a normal pace when he comes near? Linda Byler is beloved for her skillful story telling and true-to-life descriptions of Amish food, faith, and culture. As an Amish woman herself, she can share details of Amish life that few can replicate. In this charming novel, Byler shares intimate details of day-to-day life in an Amish community while spinning a sweet tale of love and hopes fulfilled at Christmastime.

Download or read book The Crane Wife written by CJ Hauser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer ​us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.

Download or read book The Christmas Proposal written by Lisa Moreau and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Dawson is completely over her ex, Christina. But that doesn’t mean she wants to plan her wedding proposal to another woman. Grace dreams of the day she’ll have a romantic proposal like those she plans for her clients at Tie the Knot. She’s spent the last year reading a boatload of self-help books. No way she’s going to fall back into old patterns and date someone afraid of commitment ever again. When it comes to everlasting love, Grace is all in. Bridget Cartwright, Christina’s personal assistant, will do anything for Christina with the hopes of getting a promotion, even plan her proposal. So what if she knows zilch about romance and doesn’t even believe in happily-ever-after? There are companies for hire that do that sort of thing. When Grace and Bridget end up stranded together on Mistletoe Mountain, Grace has no chance to escape. Not from her painful past, not from her attraction to Bridget, and definitely not from all the romance in the air.

Download or read book Christmas Proposal written by Pam Binder and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeline Mercer is illegitimate, her mother a brothel owner. At Madeline’s boarding school, a professor threatens to expose their secret. Her mother proposes Madeline marry an English nobleman whose power could protect them from scandal. On the road to Conclarton Castle, Madeline befriends a soldier and risks their plans and her heart. Robert Oswyn, Eighth Duke of Conclarton, never wanted the title. As the spare, he would marry for love. While fighting against Napoleon, he learns his father and elder brother are dead. Believing they were murdered, he vows to find their killer. Madeline helps him discover the truth, and her kindness, inner beauty, and desire to help others wins his love. But will duty and secrets keep them apart?

Download or read book A Nurse a Surgeon a Christmas Engagement written by Allie Kincheloe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From emergency wedding date… To happily-ever-after?Nurse Lena has serious doubts about playboy surgeon Dex’s request that she be his emergency date to his brother’s wedding… But when he offers to be her fake boyfriend in return to meet her family obligation, she reluctantly agrees. Maybe it’s the heady spirit of the season—or a Christmas miracle!—but Dex surprises Lena at every turn. Could he be the man she swore she never wanted? From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.

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Download or read book Elizabeth s Christmas Engagement written by Kiera Montclaire and published by Blue Flowers Press. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia Bennet's flight from Brighton and her scandalous dalliances with Mr. Wickham should have been enough to ruin any family... and it would have if it were not for the intervention of an anonymous benefactor. Anonymous or not, Elizabeth Bennet is determined to discover the identity of the nameless gentleman, he must be thanked for his generosity, and perhaps she can find a way to repay him for his unexpected kindness. With to approach of the annual Christmas Ball, and Mr. Bingley’s unexpected return to Hertfordshire, there is entirely too much happening… and when Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is revealed as the anonymous gentleman, her only thought is of demanding an answer as to why he had done it. An impulsive detour to Netherfield Park to confront the gentleman brings Elizabeth more questions than answers, and when she’s caught in a sudden snowstorm, there is only one person who could come to her aid… but after the way she has behaved, will he? "Elizabeth’s Christmas Engagement" is a sweet and clean Pride and Prejudice variation that can be enjoyed by all lovers of Jane Austen’s romantic classic. keywords: holiday romance, jane austen variation, regency holiday romance, historical short read romance, regency christmas romance

Download or read book A Proposal for Christmas written by Linda Lael Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling authors Linda Lael Miller and Lindsay McKenna present two enthralling stories about the redemptive power of the holiday season STATE SECRETS Linda Lael Miller Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin. But after weeks of studying her, he finds that Holly Llewellyn's life continues to remain a mystery. Tangled in the controversy swirling around them, David wonders, is it her secrets that fascinate him…or Holly herself? THE FIVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS Lindsay McKenna Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow.

Download or read book The Viscount s Christmas Proposal written by Carol Arens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From old friend… To future husband? Anna Liese Preston is caught off guard by the Christmas return of Peter Penneyjons. The childhood friend she’s always loved has grown into the even more handsome and eligible Lord Cliverton. The perfect husband for her stepsister—or so thinks her scheming stepmother! Marrying Peter herself would save him from that miserable match. Anna Liese’s dilemma? She only wants to marry for love—and Peter sees marriage as purely duty… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book A Christmas Proposal Secret Christmas Twins written by Betty Neels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This festive season, two very special women are about to discover that love is a gift that isn’t just for Christmas! Found out how in these two magical holiday romances from Betty Neels and Lee Tobin McClain. A Christmas Proposal Ever since Bertha Soames’s father remarried she’s found herself living in her stepsister’s shadow. But the modern-day Cinderella is about to be swept off her feet by committed bachelor Dr. Oliver Hay-Smythe! The moment Oliver locks eyes with Bertha at her birthday party, the compassionate doctor sees the kindhearted woman beneath the hand-me-downs. But it might take a little festive magic to convince her that she’s the woman he wants to spend Christmas with — now and forever… Secret Christmas Twins Suddenly a mom to adorable twin baby boys and part owner of a farm, Erica Lindholm is living her dream. Until the boys’ estranged uncle, Jason Stephanidis, comes home for Christmas. The handsome detective is a natural with the babies. But if Jason knew the truth about them, her life could melt away. She’s finally found the loving family she always wanted. Will Erica’s secret cost her everything?

Download or read book The Engagements written by J. Courtney Sullivan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Magazine Top 10 Best Books of the Year • The New York Times best-selling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan “A Diamond is Forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true—or not—those words might be. "Sullivan is a born storyteller. Like its mineral muse, Engagements shines."—Entertainment Weekly Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, but their son’s messy divorce has put them at rare odds; James, a beleaguered paramedic, has spent most of his marriage haunted by his wife’s family’s expectations; Delphine has thrown caution to the wind and left a peaceful French life for an exciting but rocky romance in America; and Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As the stories connect to each other and to Frances’s legacy in surprising ways, The Engagements explores the complicated ins and outs of relationships, then, now, and forever.

Download or read book A Convenient Christmas Bride and The Rancher s Christmas Proposal written by Rhonda Gibson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get cozy with this heartwarming holiday story! Hitched for the holidays A Convenient Christmas Bride by Rhonda Gibson After a pupil's prank forces Anna Mae Leland to take shelter with a widowed sheriff during a blizzard, she loses her teaching job—but gains a fiancé. Josiah Miller needs a mother for his twin daughters and Anna Mae needs to protect her reputation. Soon Christmas's arrival brings a gift neither dared hope for—a second chance at love and happiness…but only if they'll forego what's practical and follow their hearts. The Rancher's Christmas Proposal by Sherri Shackelford Single father and rancher Shane McCoy needs help raising his two-year-old twins. An encounter with a lovely stranger offers an unconventional answer to his predicament when she suggests a marriage of convenience. Tessa Spencer needs a fresh start and protection from a vengeful outlaw. Shane's ranch provides refuge, and his children easily win Tessa's affections. But as her past resurfaces, only honesty and trust will make this family Christmas the first of many…

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Download or read book The Cowboy s Christmas Proposal written by Judy Christenberry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One snowy Christmas, wedding bells ring! Penny Bradford has inherited her family ranch, but she has no idea how to run it! So she hires rugged rancher Jake Larson to train her up and show her the ropes. Jake thinks it will be easy-he'll run the ranch and hold Penny's hand until she realizes she isn't cut out for ranching. Trouble is, Jake realizes he doesn't want to let Penny's hand go! As the snow falls thick and fast, Christmas begins to work its magic on the boss and her rancher....

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