from fictiondb: Missing Husband Found Alive! Damiano Braganzi is back! Damiano -- the husband whom Eden James had thought she'd never see again.... Eden and Damiano had been married only a short time when he disappeared, and things had not been good between them. So, though Eden knows her love for Damiano is as strong as ever, she fears that he will want a divorce... unless she can overcome her hang-ups in the bedroom....
from fictiondb: A brief encounter... and a second chance! For Clemency Adams, one disastrous marriage was enough. She'd decided to focus on her career in the future, and that meant trying to ignore the instinctive attraction she felt for the man next door--an attraction that had started with a brief encounter five long years ago. For Joshua Harrington, one wife who had chosen her career over her family was more than enough. He'd decided to concentrate on his four-year-old twin sons, rather than pursue the woman next door who had awakened some compelling memories in him. It looked as though they were destined to throw away their last chance of happiness. Until two adorable little boys decided they wanted their father to get to know Clemency--a lot better!
From fictiondb: A Royal Wedding? Reporter Leigh Donovan couldn't believe her luck! the Handsome prince she'd been searching for had just run her car off the road, and now he was proposing the deal of a lifetime: one juicy interview in exchange for her hand in a never-to-take-place marriage. Surely Leigh could handle being the prince's pretend fiancee, helping him ward off pesky would-be brides while he was in the States. After he returned home, they would go their separate ways - Leigh with her story, and Prince Max with his precious bachelorhood intact. Unless she could convince him that she would make the perfect princess...
No, everyone is dead. His mother worshipped him, but she died when he was scarcely eighteen, and his father before that. His mother is his adored memory. In all the mad scenes which he and his companions, I am afraid, have enacted in the Fontonka house, there is one set of rooms no one has dared to enter—her rooms—and he keeps flowers there, and an ever-burning lamp. The Sphinx was smiling its eternal smile. It was two o’clock in the morning. The tourists had returned to Cairo, and only an Arab or two lingered near the boy who held Tamara’s camel, and then gradually slunk away; thus, but for Hafis, she was alone-alone with her thoughts and the Sphinx. “Prince Milas Lovski,” Tamara heard an acquaintance say… while one of his friends called him “Gritzko.” The name fell pleasantly on her ears - “Gritzko”… Why was he such a wretch as to humiliate her so? She felt horribly small. She ought never to have let him speak to her, when viewing the Sphinx. She was being thoroughly punished for her unconventionality now! When the music started, she found herself dancing with a fierce Russian Count in green and silver. He held her tightly, exclaiming how beautifully she danced. They stopped, when quite out of breath, where the screened windows half-hid the poor ladies of the harem who watched the throng from their safe retreat. The Count and Tamara bowed. Then a voice said close to her ear, “May I, too, have the honor of a turn, Madame?” - and she looked up into the eyes of the Prince.
It is the story of Torilla who is bid by her cousin to come and be her bridesmaid. On her way to her cousin's house, Torilla is saved by a kind man who she finds out is her cousin's intended husband! How both Torilla and her cousin find love is the plot of this romantic novel by Barbara Cartland!
King Maximilian of Valdastien is being pressured to marry due to the political unrest in Europe, so he decides to visit the surrounding countries in order to find a Queen! On his visit to Aldross, Princess Zita is ordered to stay above stairs so that she won't interfere with the King's meeting with her sister, Princess Sophie. For a lark, she pretends to be a waitress at the inn where the king is staying and that's how they meet and fall in love!
**A love that transcends classes with an arrogant prince.☆ Rebecca is at a loss when the prince asks her to pretend to be his fiancée!** The small kingdom of Glanzberg sits in central Europe. Rebecca is an artisan who works at the famous ceramics maker, Adele Rozen. Then one day, the crown Prince, Rudolph, comes to her atelier and asks her to pose as his bride. He’s pushy and arrogant, and that makes her want to push back against him, but she ends up folding and agreeing to help. To top it all off, she’s finds herself attracted to the loneliness that shows in his eyes from time to time. Where will this love between two different classes lead them...?
For Bianca, princess of the Principality of Glanzberg, the discussion of marriage is very sudden. Not to mention, it’s an arranged marriage with the neighboring kingdom’s prince, Theodor. But while Bianca has had feelings for Theodor ever since they were little, when she finds out he does not want to part in a loveless marriage, she suggests they enter into a fake engagement. Will the honeymoon start while these two are still playing hide-and-seek with their feelings…?
LOVE HAS ITS REASONS... When William Fitch Minstead, the sixth Earl of Ackerman, agrees to a private audience with a lovely stranger, he's rewarded with the fateful news that he is the father of a little girl. After the death of her friend Elizabeth Bradstreet, Miss Hilary Compton became Lizzie's guardian. It is clear that Miss Compton thinks Fitch has neglected a child he never knew existed and she intends to right that wrong. Captivated by her charm and wit, the earl proposes a solution: a marriage of convenience. WHICH REASON DOES NOT KNOW Though she is only the daughter of a country squire, Hilary is independent to a fault--not the sort to submit to the whims of a handsome earl with a rakish reputation, even if Fitch insists that his service during the brutal Crimean War left him a changed man. Her decision would be so much easier were he the seducing scoundrel she had expected. Perhaps the arrangement he suggests is for the best--if she can keep herself from falling in love. *** Series: Gentlemen's Club #3