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1) Caraval
Author
Series
Caraval volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer.
Publisher
The Marriage Brokers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A SUITABLE GIRL follows three young Indian women struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Documenting the arranged marriage and matchmaking process in verite for over four years, the film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
3) Texas rain
Author
Series
Whispering Mountain novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a rebellious beauty, fleeing from an arranged marriage, disappears after nursing him back to health and stealing his horse, Travis McMurray is determined to track her down and bring her back to the ranch as his wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gimmick to accompany the conclusion of the Princess Diaries is this delightful historical romance written by series heroine Princess Mia Thermopolis (with help from Cabot). Finnula needs money for her sister's dowry, and fast. Hugo Fitzstephen, returning home to England from the Crusades with saddlebags of jewels, has money, and lots of it. What could be simpler than to kidnap him and hold him for ransom? Well, for starters, Finnula could make...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie is trying desperately to escape her stepmother's jealousy, when a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle announcing that she is betrothed to his older brother. As Gabe, who is also betrothed, fulfills his mission to find Sophie, emotional conflict ensues as they realize that their feelings for each other have developed into romance, though they are both promised to other partners.
9) Dragon heart
Author
Language
English
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Description
Where the Cape of the Winds juts into the endless sea, there is Castle Ocean, and therein dwells the royal family that has ruled it from time immemorial. But there is an Empire growing in the east, and its forces have reached the castle. King Reymarro is dead in battle, and by the new treaty, Queen Marioza must marry one of the Emperor's brothers. She loathes the idea, and has already killed the first brother, but a second arrives, escorted by more...
10) The bride test
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
11) Loving Leah
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When his brother dies, Jake, a 30-year-old cardiologist, is called upon to marry the widow, Leah, under orthodox Jewish law. While initially just going through the motions to satisfy their mothers, the two soon find themselves in love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca--The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.
Author
Series
Adrian X Isolde volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In order to end a years-long war between vampires and mortals, Isolde must wed vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev. But surviving the vampire court doesn't prove to be nearly as difficult as resisting the intense attraction between her and Adrian"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed.
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Series
Fifth Avenue rebels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The charismatic and vivacious Katherine Delafield should be married by now. Her father arranged an engagement to the much sought-after tycoon Preston Clarke ages ago. The only problem is Preston refuses to acknowledge it. But this isn't going to stop Katherine from living life to the fullest as she ditches all silly notions of love and marriage and sets out to sample all the excitement New York City has to offer . . . the more scandalous the better....
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Series
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English
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Description
"Stolen for the Spaniard's inheritance... Will her innocence be his undoing? To notoriously ruthless Diego Navarro, kidnapping and marrying his brother's shy fiancee seems a perfectly sensible way to secure his inheritance! Yet when Liliana Hart willingly goes with him, Diego's reluctantly intrigued... Though the heat of their marriage bed is scorching, it's the intensity of their connection that pushes Diego to the edge. But is it powerful enough...
17) Shadow fire
Author
Series
Shadow riders novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shadow Rider Elie Archambault has been called many things: domineering, brash, loyal, but most of all fast. And there's nothing faster than choosing to marry a woman you've never met ... He's not expecting love or some happy ever after, just a partner that knows exactly what she signed up for ... Elie has no idea that his choice is about to spark a blaze that will burn all his carefully laid plans to the ground"--
Author
Series
Consortium rebellion volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars. Ada eluded her father's forces for two...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 8
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mari Prothero grew up in a tiny fishing village on the west coast of Wales where she lived alone with her father, Daffyd, a master fisherman. Although the sea had never harmed her father, Mari still worried, for her mother and older brother had been drowned by a rogue wave when she was just an infant. Her father was all she had left, and Mari was not blind to the possibility of losing him. Mari and her father kept to themselves in their village. It...
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Series
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English
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Before taking the throne, Crown Prince Remirez Montegova has to do two things: find a wife, and resolve the royal scandal unintentionally triggered by stunning waitress Maddie Myers. Remi solves both problems by striking a deal with Maddie that she become his Queen! But his innocent new bride awakens a passion he'd thought long-buried. And after their scorching wedding night suddenly their arrangement feels anything but convenient ...
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