A Marriage of Inconvenience

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A Marriage of Inconvenience
Diana Campbell
Manufacturer: Signet
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Stand in for Love.......2001-04-01

When Marietta Chase arrived at Twin Oaks, she expected to be greeted by her handsome husband-to-be, Roger Thorning, and introduced to the splendid mansion that would be her new home. Instead Mariett found waiting only Roger's notorious older brother, Christoher, the master of Twin Oaks and the man responsible for turning this great mansion into a gamblers' den and a bachelor's unkempt quarters. Marrietta would have fled-but she had nowhere to run. She would have said no to Christopher's inexplicable offer to marriage if she had not needed a home so badly. Marrietta walked down the marriage aisle at the side of a man she did not know but could only fear-and into the heart of a mystery she had to solve to find her way at last. A splendid story. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down

Couldn't put it down!.......1999-10-08

Diana Campbell is my favorite Regency author. Her characters are believable, likeable and humorous. This was the first of her Regencies that I read, and once I started it, I couldn't put it down, and immediately started looking for more. I've since reread all of them hundreds of times...I wouldn't part with any of them.

Marriage of Inconvenience (Those Manning Men #1) (Silhouette Special Edition #732)

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Marriage of Inconvenience (Those Manning Men #1) (Silhouette Special Edition #732)
Debbie Macomber
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Well-told "marriage of convenience" tale

Marriage of Inconvenience
Elizabeth Mansfield
Manufacturer: Berkley
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ASIN: 042507109X

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Well-told "marriage of convenience" tale.......2005-05-15

This is the often repeated "marriage of convenience" storyline with a twist. The heroine (Penelope Mayes) is NOT going to marry the hero (Lord Cheselden) in name only but his nephew!

Left penniless and homeless after her father died and jilted by her fiancé Alister, Penelope starts out for her new position as an instructor in a school. Along the way she is robbed, tries her hand as a barmaid, is propositioned and almost loses her virtue! Finally ending up under the kind auspices of Lord Chesenden's mother, Penny still insists on helping around the house - she does not want charity! When Lord Cheselden (Jack) returns home with his "left at the altar" nephew Clive Murray, they come to a unique decision. If Penny marries Clive, he will receive his inheritance and she will have the freedom of his name and wealth.

The story continues along that line but as Penny remains as a family member, Jack falls in love with her. Penny also falls in love with Jack but these feelings are left hidden. Penny goes to London to prepare for the wedding ... and Alister appears again! How will this sort out in the end. Can Penny continue with this charade of a wedding?

Of course the happy ending is achieved, but your heart strings are pulled when Jack thinks he will lose Penny to either his nephew or Alister. I enjoyed Penny's listmaking - what she did to calm her mind. Another Mansfield winner. Wonderful reading.

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The only savings grace of this forced betrothal was tha tLord Harry was a Complete Fop...
Vintage Chesney!
Pleasant yet lacked depth

A Marriage of Inconvenience
Marion Chesney
Manufacturer: Severn House Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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From the author of more than 25 Regencies, a scintillating story of a deranged arranged marriage. Much to Isabella's relief, Lord Harry stated quite bluntly that theirs would be a marriage in name only. Adding adventure to the marital mayhem are a search for buried treasure and a thwarted suitor out for revenge. Original Regency Romance.

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The only savings grace of this forced betrothal was tha tLord Harry was a Complete Fop..........2005-09-02

He stated quite bluntly - and much to Isabbela's relief - that theirs would be a marriage in name only.

But neither Harry nor Isabella was aware of the other's disguise - contrived in vain to thwart the impending nupitals. Isabella was not the selfish Ice Princess she seemed, nor was Harry a mincing dandy, but a prime Corinthian.

A search for buried treasure and a thwarted suitor out for revenge add adventure to the marital mayhem, as two hearts discover that love lies no father than the enarest kiss.

Vintage Chesney!.......2001-11-24

This book is vintage Chesney, with all the wit and insight into Regency times she inserts into all her books. Isabella and Harry have real human foibles and their path to true love is full of laughter and misunderstandings. A must for any Chesney fan.

Pleasant yet lacked depth.......2000-11-08

First title of Chesney's I've read. It was a good plot and had some interesting characters I would have like to have seen more of. It was a short read at under 200 pages. The ending was quick and not really to my liking in dept. It needed some more dialogue between Isabella and Harry.

Whose Baby? Marriage of Inconvenience (Harlequin Superromance No. 889)

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aboslutely wonderful
UNUSUAL STORY AND GOOD WRITING!
Best Romance of the Year!
An Original Concept!

Whose Baby? Marriage of Inconvenience (Harlequin Superromance No. 889)
Janice Kay Johnson
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The Word of a Child: 3 Good Cops (Harlequin Superromance No. 1009)

ASIN: 0373708890

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aboslutely wonderful.......2006-01-09

I didn't know this author but after reading this book I'm searching for her others.
The story is about two babies switched at birth: the writing is great and I actually had to put the book down two or three times especially at the beginning because it was so emotionally intense. Anyone who has had a child in a hospital can relate to the characters' dilemma. I really recommend it

UNUSUAL STORY AND GOOD WRITING!.......2005-08-12

She's a great writer - and again I'm amazed at the level of some of Harlequin's authors - interesting concept from the news these days of switched babies at birth - I've ordered more of her books!
Check out - Blind Spot - RS with environmental theme

Best Romance of the Year!.......2000-01-31

What a fabulous book! I couldn't put it down for even a second. If you want a great book to read, this is just what you've been looking for. The story is about two people Lynn and Adam who discover that the hospital made a mistake several years ago and mixed up their babies. Now,these two strangers are going to get married. This is really a great book, and I would recommend it to anyone.

An Original Concept!.......2000-01-30

This book is based on the case of babies being switched at the hospital - a terrifying thought for most parents. This concept is original and was well done indeed. I very much enjoyed this book and so did my brother.

The Baby Bargain (Marriage of Inconvenience; Harlequin SuperRomance, No. 929)

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Unconvential Love
Touching!
Touching!
Touching!
Wonderful Story!

The Baby Bargain (Marriage of Inconvenience; Harlequin SuperRomance, No. 929)
Peggy Nicholson
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Unconvential Love.......2006-04-27

This is a very good book about love the first and second time around

Dana is a single mother raising her baby daughter and teen step-son Sean after her husband died in a skiing accident.

Rafe is a single father of a teenage daughter named Zoe.

Sean and Zoe know each other from school and the night of a school dance something happens. Zoe takes Sean to an abandoned plane and tells him that she does not want to go to Harvard a virgin.

Several months go by and one night Rafe comes home from a date to find Zoe home from a friend's house. She was getting groceries, and when she trips she sends the bags flying upending a pregnancy test.

Rafe hits the roof and goes out looking for Sean to yell at him. Things calm down after a while though and Dana and Rafe try to come up with a way to make the baby work.

Rafe comes up with an idea of him and Dana getting married and then when Zoe has the baby letting them raise the baby. At first Dana is not to keen on that idea, but after Dana receives a threat from Sean's biological mother to take Sean away from her she decides to take Rafe up on the offer because he has the money it would take to fight her.

Dana and Rafe get married and Rafe sends Zoe away to spend some time with her great-Aunt so that she could be away from Sean.

Several months go by and Sean runs away so that he can be with Zoe. Also during this time things start heating up with Dana and Rafe even thought they fought against anything happening between then. Dana and Rafe go in search of him and find him with his maternal grandfather. Afterwards they go to a hotel and stay for several days before going home and picking up Zoe on the way.

Several months later Zoe gives birth to Peter Raphael and then gives him up before going on an educational experience on the sea before going away to Harvard.

Touching!.......2001-03-15

This story got under my skin and really touched my heart. I liked the way this author treated teenagers like real people. I liked the way she paused during the story to make touching insights. It was original and uplifting. I felt better about life after I read it.

Touching!.......2001-03-15

Wonderful Story!.......2000-07-22

This is one emotionally packed story you will not want to miss. In this story two young teenage best friends "experiment" with sex 3 months before she is to go to Harvard, which results in a pregnacy. This awesome story unfolds as this emotionally troubled young man's widowed stepmom, and his pregnant girlfriend's widowed father struggle with the situation. The author, Peggy Nicholson, did a tremedous job bringing all of the aspects of this story together, from a stepmom desperately trying to reach her troubled stepson, who he blames for his father's death, to a Father who so desperately wants to prevent his teenage daughter from making the same mistakes he did. This book held no dissapointments. It was awesome from the first page, to the breathtaking and emotional final paragraph. Definately a keeper!

For the Baby's Sake (Marriage of Inconvenience)(Harlequin Superromance No. 883) (Harlequin Superromance, No. 883)

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A ready-made family!
A sweet romance by a talented storyteller

For the Baby's Sake (Marriage of Inconvenience)(Harlequin Superromance No. 883) (Harlequin Superromance, No. 883)
Sherry Lewis
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A ready-made family!.......2000-04-03

Mark Taylor just found out he's a father . . . he's been a father for two years. The mother had given that baby boy to her cousin, Dionne Black to raise as her own. Mark's first instinct is to take his son and raise Jared on his own, but then he sees Jared and Dionne together and realizes he can't do that to either of them. Mark offers Dionne the only compromise he can think of -- marry him and continue to be a mother to Jared.

Dionne would do just about anything to keep the little boy she loves . . . even marry a stranger. Slowly, a bond begins to grow between Dionne and Mark. Is what they're feeling merely overflow from the love they both feel for Jared . . . or could it be something more? Could it be love for each other?

Sometimes I have to overdose on suspending disbelief to fall into a marriage of convenience plot, but Sherry Lewis did such a wonderful job of making an unbelievable contemporary situation, not only believable, but rivitting. Watching Dionne and Mark's relationship begin, grow and alter into something deeper was a sheer reading pleasure from one of my favorite authors.

A sweet romance by a talented storyteller.......1999-12-23

Boston lawyer Mark Taylor is stunned to see the woman he once was going to marry standing in the lobby of the downtown office building his firm partially occupies. Unable to stop himself, Mark confronts fellow attorney Marianne Holt in an attempt to understand why she suddenly vanished three years ago. Reluctantly, Marianne informs him that she deserted him because her needs differed from his. He wanted a family while she did not. Being pregnant, she went to her second cousin in Boise to give birth and left the infant with Dionne and Brent Black.

Mark immediately hires a private investigator, who provides the lawyer with background information on Dionne including the fact that Brent died in a car accident about a year ago. Mark flies to Boise to legally claim his son. However, after watching the loving interplay between two-year old Jared and Dionne, Mark begins to have doubts about everything except his need to raise his son. He offers Dionne an opportunity for both of them to be with Jared. He wants her to marry him for the sake of the child. Neither one expected love to enter their marriage of convenience.

FOR THE BABY'S SAKE is a warm, modern day take of the overly done marriage of convenience theme. In the capable hands of Sherry Lewis, the plot works as two obstinate, loving adults will do anything for Jared. Contemporary romance readers will fully enjoy this tale because of the depth that Ms. Lewis provides to her characters. This novel is a pleasurable reading experience.

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Little Matchmakers.......2000-06-10

Synopsis: Nell Fairchild is in need of a temporary Husband and father to the four children she just "inherited". Dean McBride, a lonley, widower is in need of a temporary wife. A perfect TEMPORARY arrangement right? Not if four little matchmakers have their way.

This book is well worth the out- of-print search. The children make the story. Their ruses and stunts to bring the nell and Dean together are funny and a great read.

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"Green Card" meets "Sweet Home, Alabama"

This book packs a punch!

solid contemporary romance

The Husband She Never Knew : Marriage of Inconvenience (Harlequin Superromance No. 1180)
Cynthia Thomason
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"Green Card" meets "Sweet Home, Alabama".......2004-03-21

Okay, as the caption implies, I'm a sucker for romance--and also for the writing of author Cindy Thomason.

THE HUSBAND SHE NEVER KNEW is a clever story about a woman who's made only one mistake in her life--but what a blunder! As a young adult, she marries an immigrant who needs a green card just for the fee that his friends are willing to pay her. (This information gives away nothing, since it is offered in the prologue of the novel.) They part after the ceremony, and they don't see one another again for more than a decade.

She spends that next decade growing up and becoming an art-and-antiques dealer in Florida. It is only when she meets the man of her dreams that she realizes that...oh, wait a minute...she has "forgotten" to get a divorce from the husband she only had met for a single hour, thirteen years earlier.

With the help of a detective and a lawyer, she locates this man in a small Southern town and she personally goes there to deliver divorce papers. Does it go without saying that he is charmed at the very sight of her?

Nonetheless, he agrees to sign the papers after his lawyer approves them, and she returns to Florida, secure in her hopes of marrying Mr. Perfect.

Author Thomason displays a bone-deep knowledge of the antiques business, and she weaves in a fascinating subplot about art smuggling.

This is a charming book, and I can't wait to read the promised sequel.

This book packs a punch!.......2004-01-20

Thomason's latest book starts out as a fun romantic green card comedy with a clever though misguided heroine and likable hero. It features a cast of memorable secondary characters including a thoroughly lovable pooch. But the book is much more than a fast entertaining read. Half way through, the plot turns to intrigue with a well developed smuggling angle that kept me guessing. If you like a book where the main characters face great obstacles and overcome them with humor and trust, you must read this book.

solid contemporary romance.......2004-01-10

In 1990 Orlando, the Orange Blossom Diner short order cook arranges for one of his co-workers Vicki Sorenson to marry Irishman Jamie Malone. Vicki will receive money that she desperately needs while Jamie will remain in America avoiding deportation to Belfast and probably prison.

Thirteen years later in Fort Lauderdale, Vicki plans to marry a Massachusetts blueblood. Before she can wed Graham, she must obtain a divorce from her first husband, whom she has seen for the sum of ninety minutes. A detective easily locates Jamie via the Internet and Vicki journeys to Bayberry Cove, North Carolina to end her marriage. She finds James' isolated houseboat off of Pintail Point, but a storm washes away any return trip for now. Sharing his abode, Vicki and Jamie fall in love. However, his fantasy and her dreams are not the same or are they?

THE HUSBAND SHE NEVER KNEW is a solid contemporary romance that at first blush seems trite, but the lead duet and several support players turn the tale into a fine reading experience. The story line contains some intrigue, but for the most part is a straightforward love story between a couple whose marriage leaves both a bit wary and suspicious of the motives of their spouse. Cynthia Thomason turns her Green Card romance into a wonderful story that will please sub-genre fans.

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Strong, Crisp Writing Makes this Story Sparkle.......2002-09-11

Anna Adams has crafted a masterful story about human emotions in THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.

Nick Dylan weds Clair Atherton in a marriage of convenience--he fulfills a stipulation in his father's will, and Clair gets her beloved Federal era house back. All they have to do is look convincingly married for one year. Trouble is, Nick's father was the one who who repossessed Clair's parents' home.

Nick is not like his father, but can he make prickly Clair understand? And can he make his vengeful mother love him as a son?

Strong emotions and strong reasons for those emotions are at the heart of this complex story about two needy people. Well-drawn characters and a great page-turning plot make this a book not to be missed.

Very highly recommended.......2001-01-31

When Senator Jeff Dylan passes away, Nick finds himself mourning not the memory of his father, but the knowledge of his father's lifelong disappointment in him, as well as the relationship they never had. Although he'd never been the son his mother wanted either, Nick still finds himself drawn to her side when he hears reports of brandy and sleeping pills. He moves back into his father's house to care for his mother, who had never gotten the fact that she was Jeff's housemaid until he got her pregnant. Then Nick learns that Jeff's will demands that his son marry for love within a year and live in the family home for the first year of the marriage.

The sight of the Atherton house at foot of his family's estate always produces pangs of helpless guilt in Nick. Derelict and forgotten, the Federation era house once known as The Oaks slowly decays. Jeff only bought the mortgage and closed on it to wound the Arthertons. It was Jeff's way to take vengeance on the man who'd married Sylvia Atherton, the only woman he had ever loved. Nick sees Sylvia's daughter at the way to right the past. In return for marriage, he'll give The Oaks back to Clair.

Their family history seems an insurmountable barrier between them. His father the Senator defines Nick's identity to their small town, and no one seems to understand that his name has nothing to do with who he really is. They can't talk about the things that really matter without inflicting pain. Coming from a loving family, Clair Atherton can't possibly understand how his existence embarrassed his mother Leota and father Jeff. Yet their shared pain in the past seems to connect Nick and Clair in the most unlikely way.

Leota and Clair are both strong, but neither seems to be able to use it to benefit others without Nick's delicate influence. His delicate determination to love them offers a bright future if only both women will accept themselves and the love he offers. Instead, it seems Leota is determined to get lost in her jealousy of the younger woman, to destroy rather than to build a future. She becomes a mother on a mission, determined to free her son from the Atherton woman. Nothing would hurt her more than to let Sylvia Artherton's daughter win.

Anna Adams skillfully writes in a distinctly crisp, sharp tone that uniquely reflects the tension between her characters, at times relaxing into a softer prose that reflects the emotions beneath the tension. The brittle tension periodically allows the glow of passion and love to shine through like sunlight on a cloudy day, lending Adams' prose a polish and sophistication quite rare in genre romance. Very highly recommended.

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There is a reason it was self-published.......2007-07-24

While the story is interesting, especially since I live in Costa Rica and know many of the locations mentioned in the book, the writing was truly horrific. Simple things like the use of ampersands instead of "and", an incredible number of exclamation points and other poor grammar and punctuation choices made this a difficult read for me. I understand it is a diary, but before publishing I would have liked to seen it run by an editor.

I also really began to dislike the author. His haranguing on how rude Americans are (last time I heard Canada was in America, too) and how much better he was would have carried more weight with me if he did not display many of the same traits the stereotypical gringo does. His lack of self-awareness of his own faults really started to tick me off and distracted me from the story. He may very well be a cool guy in person, but it does not come across in this book.

The negatives out of the way, I do think this is an interesting read if you are planning to move to Costa Rica or have done so and yearn to read all the books available on the subject. It highlights many of the difficulties involved in such a move and there are sections that are humorous as well. A good editor and a little soul searching by the author could have made it a must read, but as it stands, there are much better choices of books about Costa Rica to start out with.

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Diary of a Yankee in Costa Rica
L. E Taylor
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Rainforest diaries: Watercolours from Costa Rica

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Tony Foster
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Victoria Garron de Doryan
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