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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorWhat a Lady Needs for Christmas
Grace Burrowes · 407 pages
To escape a scandal, Lady Joan Flynn agrees to marry an ambitious mill owner looking to secure a wellborn wife for business reasons, but soon their marriage flourishes into something more than just convenience. "The best gifts are the unexpected ones ... To escape a scandal, Lady Joan Flynn flees to her family's estate in the Scottish Highlands. She needs a husband by Christmas, or the holidays
A Madaris Bride for Christmas
Brenda Jackson · 319 pages
"One by one, Madaris men have surrendered to the matchmaking schemes of Felicia Laverne Madaris, matriarch of the family. But Lee Madaris isn't letting anyone else control his destiny. He'll bring a bride of his own choosing to the family's holiday gathering if his hotel's gorgeous new chef will agree to a marriage of convenience." --Back cover.
A Christmas Promise
Mary Balogh · 256 pages
THE BOUGHT BRIDEGROOM Eleanor Transome found her father's wealth a dubious blessing, for he was determined that she wed a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden, on the brink of ruin, could not resist the lure of cold cash, despite his passionate alliances with several other desirable maidens. And though her heart belonged to the handsome, if humble, Mr. Wilfred Ellis, Eleanor would never deny her fa
A Lawman's Christmas
Linda Lael Miller · 368 pages
The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town. When they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman's wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife.
Mail-Order Christmas Brides: Her Christmas Family/Christmas Stars for Dry Creek
Jillian Hart, Janet Tronstad
Forbidden Magic
Jo Beverley · 352 pages
A Christmas Miracle Left penniless after her parents' death, Meg Gillingham was in dire straits. Her cruel landlord threatened to turn her and her siblings out of their home by the New Year—unless she surrendered her sister to his lecherous whims. Only a miracle could save her: a magic statue that granted wishes—for a price. Meg never expected the statue to bring her a marriage proposal, esp
The Winter Bride
Anne Gracie · 332 pages
Marriage-phobic Damaris Chance finds herself trapped in a compromising situation with the handsome rake Freddy Monkton-Coombes; she has no choice but to agree to wed him.
The Marriage Bargain
Jennifer Probst · 310 pages
In order to serve their own selfish needs, struggling bookstore owner Alexa and billionaire Nicholas decide to be in a loveless marriage for only a year, but things get complicated when love grows between them.
Kiss an Angel
Susan Elizabeth Phillips · 373 pages
Plunged to the depths of despair by an arranged marriage to a mystery man who whisks her away to the circus, Daisy Devreaux turns the tables on her would-be tamer and soars with him to new heights.Wedding Day
Vinegar Girl
Anne Tyler · 250 pages
Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."
The Convenient Marriage
Georgette Heyer · 288 pages
When Lord Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, the most eligible match of Georgian England, offers for the hand of the oldest and prettiest sister of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. Beauty Lizzie Winwood already is promised to Edward Heron, an also impoverished military, who she loves, but the wealthy Earl of Rule wants her as his wife. Lizzie's younger si
Married by Monday
Catherine Bybee · 294 pages
When Carter Billings makes his bid for governor of California, he needs to settle down and become a family man, but his choice for a running mate is professional matchmaker Eliza Havens, who is not interested in getting married.
A Bride in the Bargain
Deeanne Gist
In 1860s Seattle, a man with a wife could secure himself 640 acres of timberland. But because of his wife's untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself about to lose half of his claim. Still in mourning, his best solution is to buy one of those Mercer girls arriving from the East. A woman he'll marry in name but keep around mostly as a cook.Anna Ivey's journey west with Asa Mercer's girls is an escap
Seeking Persephone
Sarah M. Eden · 267 pages
When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses, and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland to wed a greatly feared stranger. Lodged deep in a thick forest infested with wild dogs, the Duke's castl
The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare · 384 pages
The Duke of Ashbury needs a wife. Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, will do. They both have terms for the marriage, but will they be able to stop from falling in love?
The Inconvenient Duchess
Christine Merrill · 292 pages
Lady Miranda has been raised in poverty. Through the machinations of her stepmother and father, she is sent to be the bride of an embittered duke, a widower who has been persuaded by his dying mother that he needs to marry again. Miranda does her best to be a good wife, even as the duke’s younger brother plots against the new couple.
The Bargain
Mary Jo Putney · 384 pages
The Bargain is an expansion and rewriting of The Would-Be Widow. To keep her fortune, a beautiful heiress impulsively weds a penniless officer dying of wounds received at Waterloo. But when the blasted man hasn't the grace to die, she suddenly finds herself with a healthy, vibrant husband who wants to renegotiate the terms of their bargain -- and ultimately possess the heart of his bewildered b
Midsummer Magic
Catherine Coulter · 412 pages
Philip Hawksbury, the Earl of Rothermere, obeying his father's dying wish, hies himself to Scotland to offer for one of the daughters of Alexander Kilbracken, the Earl of Ruthven. Frances Kilbracken, informed of the earl's arrival and his mission, disguises herself as a bespectacled dowd so she won't be the one selected by the young earl. But choose her he does, and for all the wrong reasons.