He's being badgered to get married.
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Then the Earl meets a certain woman who argues, berates, insults him.....and he keeps coming back for more. Hmmm. There's lots of tedious conversation, but then Georgie's secret past threatens everything.
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This is a story of hidden agendas: Both of the main characters have them. Perhaps they are too young, but they do not have the strength of character to state their objectives - so the other partner has a true view of the conditions.

Miranda Wentworth has become too old to stay at the orphanage and she must leave. However, conditions in the Chicago orphanage are so dire that she spirits away her two youngest siblings with her.  Miranda has accepted Jacob Creed's ad for a mail-order bride. Fearing he will not want her with 2 additional mouths to feed, she doesn't mention it and trembles to meet the rancher.

Six months before, Jacob Creed lost his wife and stillborn son. He is desperate for a help mate and someone who can care for his two year-old daughter. Fearing no one would accept him with a child, he neglects to mention her in his ad or letter.

Jacob is so shocked by the loss of his wife in childbirth; he decided that this will be a marriage of convenience. He has no intention of losing another wife. Jacob neglects to mention this condition either in his advertisement for a wife.

This story was cute and quick; Miranda and Jake were interesting.
3 stars on this novel
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Girl marries boy
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Guy want's his marriage sex to be special
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Girl can't wait, want's it NOW
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Guy is stubborn
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Take for freaking ever to get to the honeymoon
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Girl gets pissed off
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Guy tries to make it up to her
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Girl gives in because now shes going to get laid
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The end
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About the Book:

Lady Sabine is harboring a skin blemish, one, that if revealed, could cause her to be branded as a witch, put her life in danger, and damage her chances of making a good marriage. After all, what nobleman would want to marry a woman so flawed?

Sir Bennet is returning home to protect his family from an imminent attack by neighboring lords who seek repayment of debts. Without fortune or means to pay those debts, Sir Bennet realizes his only option is to make a marriage match with a wealthy noblewoman. As a man of honor, he loathes the idea of courting a woman for her money, but with time running out for his familys safety, what other choice does he have?

As Lady Sabine and Sir Bennet are thrust together under dangerous circumstances, will they both be able to learn to trust each other enough to share their deepest secrets? Or will those secrets ultimately lead to their demise?

My Review:

Okay, first of all love, love, love Jody Hedlund's latest, For Love & Honor. Great read! The Victorian Era with all its pomp and circumstance really had some shady stuff going on behind closed doors. Lady Sabine is one for keeping to herself because of a birthmark that won't be too highly favored. Because of this she doubts she will get married to any one with any prestige behind their name. So she is forever blemished and resigned to the fact that she will never marry.

 Like most "arranged" marriage Sir Bennet is dreading it but he has to make this political move to save his family. So Sir Bennet and Lady Sabine are put together under the wrong set of circumstances but is it mildly possibly that their matrimony can changed to look like more of the love that God intended?

 This book will take you on a trip into a fairy tale type story. It was a great fantasy type read!

**Disclosure** This book was sent to me free of charge for my honest review from the author. All opinions are my own.
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Most of us, whether they want to admit it or not, would like to marry for money. Marrying someone who is a nice peron or
well educated doesn't cut it any more. Times are tough and if you don't have financial security, you'll relationhip will end up in
divorce. This book goes into such details as how you shoud dress, act, talk, and be aware of your social surrounding. If you follow
the priciples in this book and if you are genuine in you search to marry rich, and not act like a phony, I highly recommed this book!
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Another ultimatum type story where the hero/protagonist must marry in order to secure his fortune. Unfortunately his target bride will not go quietly into the night!
Miss Theodora Cumberbatch-Snowe has always adored her brother's friend Connor Douglas  but marriage to him would be that of a sometime bride as the dashing Scots privateer hied off on more adventures leaving her behind.
Hence the idea to settle for the steadfast squire Lancelot Fox. He has little imagination and great expectations of a wife who knows her womanly place. He has forgotten to tell Theodora all this. Her answer to her Connor problem is an elopement. An elopement with mishaps, where the spurned suitor catches up with them. Connor is about to have his comeuppance, delivered by that supposedly biddable young woman.
After a month's carousing Connor returns to find his targeted bride had fled the coop. This cannot be allowed to happen, she is after all the perfect bride; respectable, meek and mild--NOT!
A delightful somewhat sensual romp with a goodly dose of humor!

A NetGalley ARC
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Complexities of plural marriages are brought to light. Another reminder that things are not always what they appear to be
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The only problem I have with the book is #492 where Dr. Haddad writes:  "Grounds for annulment include, e.g. psychological immaturity or incapacity, consent extracted through force or fear, deceit or fraud perpetrated to secure consent, an intention to have no children, an intention to exclude fidelity or permanence."  The first one, psychological immaturity or incapacity, comes under canon 1092 and its overbroad interpretation is the cause of the 10,000% increase in marriages being declared null since the 1970s.

People are considered mature enough to marry if the female is 14, the male 16.  That's not a lot of maturity, but tribunal judges think otherwise.  Psychological incapacity, according to JPII, includes only serious, incurable mental illness and mental retardation. A study of these grounds used in most U.S. tribunals for most marriage cases reaches the conclusion that only the perfect can marry.  And that's where we are in the year 2018 with Pope Francis.
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Max is stuck. Tonight is his last night of freedom and he's only 35. He must marry tomorrow to protect his parents and save his father's reputation and financial well-being. A woman running for congress needs him to build her status and she made a deal with his parents. So Max was out in the barn and met a really hot young lady who sang she's of age but it's really dubious. The next day he discovers that she is the daughter of his new wife. This is a story of intrigue deception, sex, family loyalty that is misused and all around nastiness.
Here lies the problem. The storyline could be great. The author needs an editor and a strong group of beta readers because it's really difficult to overlook all of the discrepancies in the story.
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Elissa Wall's wedding photos show a girl with a red face. The photos of her crying should've convinced the jury that the marriage was in fact a rape. Her "husband", on the other hand, looks very triumphant. Their cult's leader, Warren Jeffs, ordered the marriage to take place, and her parent did whatever the "prophet" said. In short order, Jeffs ordered a sanctioned rape, and Elissa's mother stood by and let it happen. The girl couldn't run away, because she had nowhere to go and no way to survive outside of the cult.

The story has a happy ending, however. She leaves her husband for another cult member, and together they leave. She returns to testify against Warren Jeffs, and he goes to jail. But in my view, that's not enough.

The Polygamous cults are one of the reasons I'm disgusted with the Obama administration. I was sure he'd send the Attorney General after these guys, charging them with money laundering, interstate sex trafficking, financial fraud, kidnapping, etc. But so far he hasn't. This was one of his chances to "hang tough" and he blew it.

As for what Mitt Romney intends to do if he wins the election, I'm not crossing my fingers.
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For men who had almost pledged not to fall completely in love with promises of marriage, they had to realize that their future was already decided, much to their satisfaction.
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Cade is the heartbroken widower, but he definitely notices reporter Lacy. He's supposedly not interested in any other woman, but he constantly notices how attractive/sexy Lacy is. And he's jealous of his best friend showing her any attention. Still, he maintains he is definitely off the market. So he is alternately flirty, then standoffish. She is constantly imagining him naked, and being irritated at him at the same time. Some of the dialog was hard to swallow. Lacy really wants/needs the interview, then she doesn't behave like a professional. Tells him she'll even work for him in exchange. Then there are the stupid things. It doesn't take two weeks to interview for a story. Not all ranchers wear Stetsons. No one fixes a fence with a repair that may only last a day or two. They do it right the first time. NO ONE can ever ride the dead wife's horse, (but the horse likes Lacy). She steps into the corral with a bull to save a kitten? But there were no real typos or other editing mistakes, so that was a plus.
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waiting for the next  esposide of how all they life  turn out that they are all married
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This is the story of Jason Sutherland, a handsome, hot, sexy, smart billionaire, who will stop at nothing to get what or who he wants. And who he wants is Hope Sinclair, a beautiful, broken lady who he has known most of his life and she is also his best friends little sister. Jason has ignored his feelings for her a little too long, and when he finds out that she is getting married, he loses it and does something pretty drastic to make sure that doesn't happen, you see he can be a real first class jerk if he has to be.
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Benjamin Disraeli married a woman with white hair, and he told her he married her for her money.  Within 2 years, he told her he would have married her for her.  How did she do that?  She gave him a quiet place to live, was always pleasant...  and was very low maintenance.  Women want the perfect guys they read about in the WomenPorn called Romance Novels.  Men like that don't exist.  Men already know that women settle.  The guy they had the great sex with- the tennis instructor, whatever, who was a bad boy, but didn't make much money- that's not the guy they marry.  No, they settle.  American women are generally very high maintenance, and low to zero reward.  It's like having a car that you have to tinker with daily, to keep running.  I have known more than 100 men, above 38, who will never, ever get married again, due to what the ex put them through.  Men who have intuition, and some do, feel these women out, and cloak up in invisibility to them.  Settling.  Yeah.  Which means they will try to trade up.  Women don't seem to understand that when they gut a man, and hang him up to bleed out in divorce court, that he's kind of messed up for the next woman... assuming he even wants another woman.  As a book, this isn't bad- the time to settle though, is not 35+, it's more like 28.  Tom Leykis put out some magic phrases to stay married: stay thin, long hair, sex on request, speak sparingly and pleasantly, smile often.  Foreign women often understand this.  Walk the streets of France, or Spain, or Italy, see how women dress.  Women are hot into their 60's in those countries, I mean hot.  There are 80 year old women in France who dress well, and know how to run the vibes, and have lovers.  One of the most fascinating things I've ever seen is feminists hit on men.  Huh?  Those men know they are FishBicycle candidates.  They just say no.  They know what kind of toxic futures these womyn offer.  It is so easy for men to rate women.  They see how much women respect them.  Zero respect = crummy prospect.  Time to cloak up, in the cloak of invisibility, and vanish.  I know a guy who is 50.  His wife dumped him, got custody of the kids, bled him out, and so on.  He got custody of his kids, because she neglected them.  He won't ever even get engaged, no, he just wants sex.  This book is useful- it just needs to go farther.
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Dimitri Makarov has recently been informed by a busy body that his former secretary is poised to marry another man.  Investigating the competent, trustworthy Erin, he discovers that she kept a very important secret from him, and he means to be involved.now!!

Erin Turner no longer did love, been there done that, got the heartache to prove it.  So thinking she could make a better life for herself, she decides to participate in an illegal wedding instead of notifying the disreputable, drunkard, womanizing boss that he left her with a little gift.

Claimed for Makarovs Baby showed the vulnerable side of Dimitri and that he had changed after that night.  It took some time, but he did make an effort.  Of course, this is another hero that never wanted a child until said child is there, but no one asks this guy why he didn't just get snipped!  Dimitri comes across as rather cold in some of his early interactions with the child and Erin in Claimed for Makarovs Baby.

Erin had good reason to protect the child in Claimed for Makarovs Baby, but she did give Dimitri a chance to show that he had changed.  Dimitri acts all victimized until Erin points out exactly how awful he was when she did attempt to advise him in Claimed for Makarovs Baby.  That was a wake-up call for him, realizing just how far hed sunk in her eyes!

The truth behind why Dimitri was so cold was revealed and things worked through, but there were still a few unanswered questions that lingered in Claimed for Makarovs Baby.  Perhaps it was left to the imagination of the reader?
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Jessie Stone fantasizes about being married, her wedding dress, and what the perfect proposal would be, while jotting all of this down in her journal. She is on every dating site there is, while speed dating.

She has always been the bridesmaid, but never the bride! She has raised her independent younger sister Brooklyn whom falls for for every dysfunctional man she meets, and worked at a dead end real estate job for ten years believing she would someday move up the ladder.

Then God appears to Jessie in the flesh and tells her to let Him write her love story, she thinks He is a stalker and calls 911 (yes the officers do not see anyone). She wants to run her life on her own terms not the way God has her life mapped out. He wants her to believe in Him and trust Him that He knows what is best for her, but Jessie does not like those terms, she believes He should make things happen the way she wants them to happen.

I have to say I am torn between enjoying this book, yet it was a bit over the top for me. Like the part about dancing with God, invisible to everyone but Jessie, in a public restaurant, was a little out there for me. Imagination is a must when reading this book.

I received this book free from the publisher through the Waterbrook Multnomah book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255 "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.