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Accidental brides volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Signing up for a reality show with a $100,000 prize, wedding gown designer Andie Dresser marries a stranger--sight unseen--only to discover her new husband is the man who left her 10 years ago, and with the cameras rolling, finds their feelings for each other growing under the spotlight"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Selected by the royal matchmaker to marry the crown prince, Ying Yue finds her husband-to-be stoic and infuriating, leading her to escape into a secret parallel world through palace mirrors where a kinder prince awaits, but the two worlds have a long and bloody history and Ying has a part to play in the future of both.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed children's author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanaian family, Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents' turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, philandering, self-made father--and tries to be a different kind of wife from her mother. But when Kokui...
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English
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Visiting a fortune teller before her wedding, Carla Carter, when it is revealed that a different man holds the key to her happiness, someone she met 21 years ago, she embarks on a journey to find her perfect match, hoping a face from her past will help break her family's curse.
On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she's found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically...
6) Hey, Zoey
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister who's moved to New York. Though her marriage with David, an anesthesiologist, isn't what is used to be, nothing can quite prepare her for Zoey, he $8,000 AI sex doll that David has secretly purchased and stuffed...
Author
Series
Shanahan match volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Enya Shanahan's ill-fated marriage has left her with an annulment and a child on the way. Her father's solution is for her to marry again, and the local matchmaker knows just the man: Captain Sullivan O'Brien. Enya's heart is closed off to love in this marriage of convenience, but a greater purpose draws them together"--
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"They're taking a chance on love...by marrying the wrong person. All of Grady Amos's brothers are married, and he's feeling left behind. Aja Kermani wants to break away from the man chosen by her parents and marry for love. This leads them both to Tying the Knot, a reality TV show where contestants meet their soulmate. Grady and Aja end up married--yet they have absolutely nothing in common! But there is something--beyond a powerful attraction--that...
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English
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"Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller from a fresh voice in the genre that will leave you questioning who, or what, you can trust . . . including your own sanity. England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In the summer of 1941, on the New England shores where they were raised, Evelyn and Joseph fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, they have gathered their three grown children to share the staggering news: she has received a heartbreaking diagnosis, and he can't live without her. So in one year's time they will end their love story on their own terms. Over the next year, the couple retraces their past -- all...
11) Liars: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including--a few years later--all the attendant joy and labor of motherhood. But it's...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in her privileged life, Adelaide Forsythe couldn't be happier about the prospect of a quieter Christmas. That's not to say her transition from Miss to Mrs. has been without challenge. Though she doesn't regret marrying for love instead of wealth, she feels woefully unprepared to run her own household. Then, on the first Sunday of Advent, winter winds bring change through two unlikely means: a young orphan boy, hiding near Adelaide's...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With the hope of protecting Azure, Nina swears she will become the queen of Galgada. Unfortunately, the crown prince of Galgada, Sett is not easy to influence. Rather, he is a wicked young man who has never known love. Nevertheless, Nina suggests lovingher a try. While heading to the home country of Galgada from Bastella, Nina crosses paths with an even more dangerous beast...!!"--
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nina is a poor orphan with deep blue eyes the color of lapis lazuli, just like the God of the Stars. But one day, she comes to the attention of Prince Azure, who wants her to serve as a double for the priestess-princess Alisha. Tragically, Alisha died three months before she was to be married off to the crown prince of the large neighboring country of Galgada. After being asked to learn etiquette, to dress like a princess, and to deceive an entire...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nina was plucked off the streets because she resembled a dead priestess--but is this a lucky break, or a new kind of curse? Nina had a rough start to life, orphaned and stealing to survive, only to be abducted for her unusual lapis lazuli eyes. But to her surprise, her captor, Prince Azure, ordained that she would live the life of a princess...specifically, that of the recently deceased priestess-princess, Alisha, who had her same eyes. Despite her...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Nina and Sett arrive in the royal capital of Galgada, only to be faced with a surprising turn of events. The king has decided to eliminate the current order of succession, and a war for the throne revolving around who will successfully take Nina as theirbride breaks out. Even though Nina's goal is to ultimately become the queen of Galgada to protect Azure, she cannot help but feel herself pulled towards Sett compared to his brothers. But then Azure...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Nina, the girl with eyes the color of lapis lazuli, is scouted by the second prince of Fortna, Azure, to replace priestess-princess Alisha, who died just before she was to be married off to the prince of Galgada. Azure, who has a similar background to Nina serving as the double for the deceased prince she he was a child, finds himself drawn to Nina and promises to find a way to break of the engagement. Unfortunately, to save Azure from the king himself,...
Author
Series
Emissaries volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When the new provincial governor arrives in Corinth, the esteemed chief magistrate Narkis Ligus is delighted. He sees a golden opportunity in the governor's presence--a chance to unite their households through the marriage of one of his beautiful unwed daughters to the governor's firstborn son. Such an advantageous union would surely bring divine blessings from the gods, propelling him to greater power and fortune. Yet complications quickly arise...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Dara Willcox, up in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen, it happens to them. These two vivid, ambitious people are on different trajectories -- he's British, working temporarily in New York. She's set on law school. They don't care. They will make their lives together happen. At their engagement dinner at Dara's family home, her mother Lee sets a beautiful table and the family and close...
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