marriage of convenience
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Moragh’s Ghost by Maggie Tideswell
Desperation leads to wishful thinking, ending with a massive clashing of wills.
To Have and To Chastise: A Victorian Marriage of Convenience Romance by Cherry Redde
A Victorian lady’s marriage of convenience to a strict stranger…
When her wastrel Earl of a father gambles away her hand in marriage, the beautiful Lady Henrietta claims she’s already secretly wed to the handsome vicar who arrived in the county just that day. To protect the lady’s reputation, Alfred Conley backs up the story in public― but he exacts his price in private. Any wife of his must be subject to domestic discipline, and he does not tolerate lies.Especially those lies that encumber him with a surprise bride still being claimed by a powerful enemy.
The Spy’s Convenient Bride by Erica Taylor
No longer an agent of the Crown, Luke Macalister doesn’t know who he is outside the clandestine world he spent the better part of a decade in. When he is awarded an earldom for something he didn’t do, he sees only a future of boredom and responsibility as the new Earl of Kenswick, a future he’s desperate to escape.
The daughter of the late Baron Kenswick, Miss Vivian Burke despises everything about the new earl she’s never met. That he turns out to be handsome and charming, and incapable of taking anything seriously, does not elevate him in her opinion. Until he offers her a deal—he will hand over the deed to her childhood home in exchange for a six-month marriage of convenience. To save herself and her mother, she has no choice but to say yes.
Their plans of a boring six months in London are soon derailed as Luke’s life as a spy catches up to him and he’s left with no choice but to trust his new wife.
Armed with only a diary and a signet ring, Luke and Vivian race against treasonous forces to save a life, to save England, and if they’re lucky enough, they just might save each other and find love along the way.
The Matrimonial Advertisement by Mimi Matthews
England, 1859. When ex-army captain Justin Thornhill places an advertisement for a wife, the mysterious lady who answers isn’t quite what he was expecting. “For this impressive Victorian romance, Matthews crafts a tale that sparkles with chemistry…an excellent series launch.” -Publishers Weekly
I Spy a Duke by Erica Monroe
SHE WANTS REVENGE
When bluestocking Vivian Loren becomes the governess for the wealthy Spencer family, she’s hunting for clues about the murder of her brother, not romance. But Vivian didn’t count on one thing: James Spencer, the intrepid Duke of Abermont, who has a tortured past of his own.HE NEEDS A WIFE
As head of Britain’s elite intelligence agency, James can’t afford the scrutiny the Marriage Mart would bring to his family once the Season starts. After discovering Vivian’s quest for vengeance has made her a pawn in a treacherous plot of one of Napoleon’s most deadly spies, James realizes they can help each other. She’ll become his duchess, and he’ll keep her safe.What begins as a marriage of convenience quickly becomes anything but as the enemy spy closes in on them. When both husband and wife have dark secrets, love may be the most dangerous mission of all.
Ash: A Bad Boy Romance by Lexi Whitlow
I married Summer to save her life, and then I was forced to break her heart.
I’m back in town, and I’m never letting her go again.
She’s the woman who changed me.
She’s my wife, and she’s going to have my baby.
He told me he’d always protect me. Then he disappeared without a trace.
Jonathan Ash is not the kind of man you marry.
He’s a fierce, hard-bodied, tattooed, womanizing mafia soldier.
Me and Ash? We were done three years ago.
But Ash is waving around a marriage certificate that proves otherwise.
He says he deserves a chance.
He says he wants me to have our baby.
And he’s not signing any divorce papers.
