Author: Jayci Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008904189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Their marriage is only for appearances... If their hearts don’t betray them
Temporary Wife Temptation (Mills & Boon Desire) (The Heirs of Hansol, Book 1)
Author: Jayci Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008904189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Their marriage is only for appearances... If their hearts don’t betray them
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008904189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Their marriage is only for appearances... If their hearts don’t betray them
His Temporary Wife
Author: Leslie P García
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440580952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
When Esmeralda Salinas left her childhood home, she left behind the judgmental lectures and cold, unaffectionate parents who never found her good enough to compete with her brother Beto. Esme fashions herself into her own woman, and refuses to let others dictate her behavior or her dreams. After a love affair goes wrong in Rose Creek, Texas, she packs up her horse and moves to even tinier Truth, Texas. When Esme finds herself singing country karaoke in her aunt’s bar, she can deal with that. But when Tía demands that Esme consider a job offer from devastatingly sexy Rafael Benton, Esme realizes that the small town of Truth might harbor some horrific lies revolving around Rafael and his recently deceased sister Cody, who had reached the pinnacle of the country music season only to crash and burn. Still, Esme listens to Rafael’s sales pitch and can’t believe what he offers: almost a quarter million dollars to marry him for the summer. Rafael talks a good game, and Esme knows she could enjoy the benefits of marriage to him, with or without the formalities and pre-nuptials and pretense. But sleeping with a man for the thrill is one thing. Marrying him for money is another. Can she accept a job that would make her rich but might destroy all she holds sacred? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440580952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
When Esmeralda Salinas left her childhood home, she left behind the judgmental lectures and cold, unaffectionate parents who never found her good enough to compete with her brother Beto. Esme fashions herself into her own woman, and refuses to let others dictate her behavior or her dreams. After a love affair goes wrong in Rose Creek, Texas, she packs up her horse and moves to even tinier Truth, Texas. When Esme finds herself singing country karaoke in her aunt’s bar, she can deal with that. But when Tía demands that Esme consider a job offer from devastatingly sexy Rafael Benton, Esme realizes that the small town of Truth might harbor some horrific lies revolving around Rafael and his recently deceased sister Cody, who had reached the pinnacle of the country music season only to crash and burn. Still, Esme listens to Rafael’s sales pitch and can’t believe what he offers: almost a quarter million dollars to marry him for the summer. Rafael talks a good game, and Esme knows she could enjoy the benefits of marriage to him, with or without the formalities and pre-nuptials and pretense. But sleeping with a man for the thrill is one thing. Marrying him for money is another. Can she accept a job that would make her rich but might destroy all she holds sacred? Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Temporary Bride
Author: Jennifer Klinec
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455537683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
For fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a true story of forbidden love set against the rich cultural and political backdrop of modern-day Iran. Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel the world in search of delicious recipes and obscure culinary traditions. Her journey takes her to Iran, where she seeks out a local woman to learn the secrets of Persian cuisine. Vahid is suspicious of the strange foreigner who turns up in his mother's kitchen. Unused to such a bold and independent woman, he is frustrated to find himself, the prized only son of the house, largely ignored for the first time. But when the two are thrown together on an unexpected adventure, they discover a mutual attraction that draws them irresistibly toward each other--but also pits them against harsh Iranian laws and customs, which soon threaten to tear the unlikely lovers apart. Getting under the skin of one of the most complex and fascinating nations on earth, The Temporary Bride is a soaring, intricately woven story of being loved, being fed, and struggling to belong.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455537683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
For fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a true story of forbidden love set against the rich cultural and political backdrop of modern-day Iran. Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel the world in search of delicious recipes and obscure culinary traditions. Her journey takes her to Iran, where she seeks out a local woman to learn the secrets of Persian cuisine. Vahid is suspicious of the strange foreigner who turns up in his mother's kitchen. Unused to such a bold and independent woman, he is frustrated to find himself, the prized only son of the house, largely ignored for the first time. But when the two are thrown together on an unexpected adventure, they discover a mutual attraction that draws them irresistibly toward each other--but also pits them against harsh Iranian laws and customs, which soon threaten to tear the unlikely lovers apart. Getting under the skin of one of the most complex and fascinating nations on earth, The Temporary Bride is a soaring, intricately woven story of being loved, being fed, and struggling to belong.
The Temporary Wife
Author: Jeannie Moon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101625597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
A woman receives a proposal she can’t refuse from a man she can’t resist in the first Forever Love story. Kindergarten teacher Megan Rossi is devoted to being a mother to her best friend’s five-year-old daughter, Molly. When the child was orphaned, Meg became the little girl’s legally named guardian—over the objections of Molly’s wealthy grandparents, the Campbells. Now the Campbells are petitioning for custody, and Meg is faced with a long and expensive legal battle. The last thing she expects is for her former high school boyfriend—and the Campbells’ estranged son—to offer a solution: marriage. Billionaire software developer Jason Campbell knows his parents don’t have Molly’s best interests at heart—it’s all about control for them. There is one way he can ensure that his sister’s last wishes are honored. He will offer Meg the protection of his name and lawyers until the custody arrangement has been finalized, then he’ll secure his niece’s future with a very generous divorce settlement. Jason’s considered all the scenarios, except one—that the sparks that once flew between he and Meg might reignite a burning passion. And that his confirmed bachelor heart might just melt away from the heat...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101625597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
A woman receives a proposal she can’t refuse from a man she can’t resist in the first Forever Love story. Kindergarten teacher Megan Rossi is devoted to being a mother to her best friend’s five-year-old daughter, Molly. When the child was orphaned, Meg became the little girl’s legally named guardian—over the objections of Molly’s wealthy grandparents, the Campbells. Now the Campbells are petitioning for custody, and Meg is faced with a long and expensive legal battle. The last thing she expects is for her former high school boyfriend—and the Campbells’ estranged son—to offer a solution: marriage. Billionaire software developer Jason Campbell knows his parents don’t have Molly’s best interests at heart—it’s all about control for them. There is one way he can ensure that his sister’s last wishes are honored. He will offer Meg the protection of his name and lawyers until the custody arrangement has been finalized, then he’ll secure his niece’s future with a very generous divorce settlement. Jason’s considered all the scenarios, except one—that the sparks that once flew between he and Meg might reignite a burning passion. And that his confirmed bachelor heart might just melt away from the heat...
Temporary Wife
Author: Tara Crescent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794543492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Fake marriages have rules. We break all of them. Ryder Drake is the devil.The billionaire architect exudes power and privilege from every pore in his body. Toronto magazines fawn over him, calling him one of the hottest single men in the city.Color me unimpressed. Ryder's new skyscraper will cut off access to the waterfront for all but the ultra-rich, and I'm determined to stop it. Then he asks me to marry him. It's a business deal, nothing more. He needs a fake wife and I need money. It should be uncomplicated. Rule 1: No kissing.Rule 2: No sex.Rule 3: No falling in love.I break the first rule within the hour. The second rule? I last less than a week before I give in to Ryder's raw, animal magnetism. Repeatedly. Before the wedding. After the wedding. With toys. Without toys. I'm having the best, naughtiest, steamiest sex of my life. And rule 3? I'm Ryder's temporary wife. No matter what happens, I can't forget that our marriage isn't real.Temporary Wife is a standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cheating. It was previously released in a boxed set.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794543492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Fake marriages have rules. We break all of them. Ryder Drake is the devil.The billionaire architect exudes power and privilege from every pore in his body. Toronto magazines fawn over him, calling him one of the hottest single men in the city.Color me unimpressed. Ryder's new skyscraper will cut off access to the waterfront for all but the ultra-rich, and I'm determined to stop it. Then he asks me to marry him. It's a business deal, nothing more. He needs a fake wife and I need money. It should be uncomplicated. Rule 1: No kissing.Rule 2: No sex.Rule 3: No falling in love.I break the first rule within the hour. The second rule? I last less than a week before I give in to Ryder's raw, animal magnetism. Repeatedly. Before the wedding. After the wedding. With toys. Without toys. I'm having the best, naughtiest, steamiest sex of my life. And rule 3? I'm Ryder's temporary wife. No matter what happens, I can't forget that our marriage isn't real.Temporary Wife is a standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cheating. It was previously released in a boxed set.
Law of Desire
Author: Shahla Haeri
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut’a, temporary marriage. Mut’a is legally sanctioned among the Twelver Shi’ites who live predominantly in Iran. Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropologist, the author describes the concept of a temporary-marriage contract, in which a man and an unmarried woman (virgin, widow, or divorcee) decide how long they want to stay married to each other (from one hour to ninety-nine years) and how much money is to be given to the temporary wife. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the regime has conduction an intensive campaign to revitalize this form of marriage, and Shi’i ulama (religious scholars) support it as positive, self-affirming, and cognizant of human needs. Challenged by secularly educated urban Iranian women, and men and by the West, the ulama have been called upon to address themselves to the implications of this custom for modern Iranian society, to respond to the changes that mut’a is legally equivalent to hire or lease, that it is abusive of women, and that it is in fact legalized prostitution. Law if Desire thus makes available previously untapped and undocumented data about an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. This important work will be of interest to cultural anthropologist, religious scholars, scholars of the Middle East, and lawyers as well as to those interested in the role of women in Islamic society.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
As an Iranian Muslim woman and a granddaughter of a well-known ayatollah, Shahla Haeri was accepted into the communities where she conducted her fieldwork on mut’a, temporary marriage. Mut’a is legally sanctioned among the Twelver Shi’ites who live predominantly in Iran. Drawing on rich interviews that would have been denied a Western anthropologist, the author describes the concept of a temporary-marriage contract, in which a man and an unmarried woman (virgin, widow, or divorcee) decide how long they want to stay married to each other (from one hour to ninety-nine years) and how much money is to be given to the temporary wife. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the regime has conduction an intensive campaign to revitalize this form of marriage, and Shi’i ulama (religious scholars) support it as positive, self-affirming, and cognizant of human needs. Challenged by secularly educated urban Iranian women, and men and by the West, the ulama have been called upon to address themselves to the implications of this custom for modern Iranian society, to respond to the changes that mut’a is legally equivalent to hire or lease, that it is abusive of women, and that it is in fact legalized prostitution. Law if Desire thus makes available previously untapped and undocumented data about an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. This important work will be of interest to cultural anthropologist, religious scholars, scholars of the Middle East, and lawyers as well as to those interested in the role of women in Islamic society.
The Temporary Wife
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Temporary Gentleman
Author: Sebastian Barry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp. Award-winning author Sebastian Barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.
Temporary
Author: Hilary Leichter
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 156689574X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 156689574X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
The Billionaire's Fake Marriage
Author: MacKenzie Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
I asked her to marry me to save my company, I never thought I would fall in love with her. Ryan: My company, my life's work, everything I've accomplished is on the line. I need to get married and fast. It will be easy to consider it a business arrangement. One that will be lucrative for both my assistant, Mika, and myself. I won't think about how this takes away the whole problem of dating an employee. But it doesn't take away my desire to make her mine. Mika: My career was all that mattered to me and getting ahead. When Ryan gives me an opportunity of a lifetime, I can't say no. But that was before I became his wife. That was before I moved in with him. That was before I started to fall in love with him. Now I want to find a way to stay with him forever. The Billionaire's Fake Marriage is a stand-alone billionaire office fake romance set in New York City with plenty of heat with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhangers!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
I asked her to marry me to save my company, I never thought I would fall in love with her. Ryan: My company, my life's work, everything I've accomplished is on the line. I need to get married and fast. It will be easy to consider it a business arrangement. One that will be lucrative for both my assistant, Mika, and myself. I won't think about how this takes away the whole problem of dating an employee. But it doesn't take away my desire to make her mine. Mika: My career was all that mattered to me and getting ahead. When Ryan gives me an opportunity of a lifetime, I can't say no. But that was before I became his wife. That was before I moved in with him. That was before I started to fall in love with him. Now I want to find a way to stay with him forever. The Billionaire's Fake Marriage is a stand-alone billionaire office fake romance set in New York City with plenty of heat with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhangers!