Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman Ñ socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her partner the same way? Boyd's first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-dressing men and their partners. Now, She's Not the Man I Married is both a sequel and a more expansive examination of gender in relationships. It's for couples who are homosexual or heterosexual, and for readers who fall anywhere along the gender continuum. As Boyd struggles to understand the nature of marriage, passion, and love, she shares her confusion and anger, providing a fascinating observation of the ways in which relationships are gendered, and how we cope, or don't, with the emotional and sexual pressures that gender roles can bring to our marriages and relationships.
This is the story of Lucy and Paul. They met. They fell deeply in love. They got married. Lucy thought that she had everything she wanted. Until she found the photograph from Paul's past life, read the text messages he's so desperately trying to hide. Until she uncovered Paul's darkest secrets. Now Lucy realises she doesn't really know her husband. She doesn't know if she can trust her own mind. She doesn't know the lengths Paul would go to keep his perfect life. And worst of all, she doesn't know that she's in danger.
What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth - and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways...
Welcome to Oakwood Falls. A mountainside town, where the swoon is high and the men are dreamyGet all five Wedded Curves stories in one boxset.Whoa! I Married a Mountain ManAlways the bridesmaid and never the bride. It's something I'd resigned myself to. Then at my best friend's wedding, I met Gavin 'Bear' Warren. He made my heart go boom.I remember laughing. I remember talking. I even remember going for a long walk together. What I don't remember is saying 'I do'. Somehow, I'm the bride, married to a man-a mountain man-I just met. What do I do now? Whoa! I Married a Billionaire You never truly know a man until you share a bank account.That's something my granny used to say growing up. I never cared about money, only the man. But when I married Danny Cardiff, I finally understood what she meant. When I said, 'I do' I thought it was to a mild mannered ex-marine turned business analyst who spent more time working at home than in the office. But when we went on our honeymoon, I realized just how wrong I was. There was a private jet.We had an entire island to ourselves.Staff to cater to every whim. When I grew concerned over how we could afford this, he broke the news.He's a billionaire. Whoa! But now I'm wondering what other secrets he's hiding.Whoa! I Married the PitcherIt only took one strike.The moment I saw Bryce Cardiff step up to the mound, I knew he was the man I wanted to marry. Problem was, he was off limits to me. As the owner's daughter, I wasn't allowed to mingle with the players. But then we ran into each other in the stairwell, and...we couldn't help ourselves. Now we're on the run.All we want is each other. All baseball wants is their prized pitcher and their little princess back under the owner's thumb.I don't know how we're going to stop them from pulling us apart, but Bryce says he has a plan. I hope it's a good one.Whoa! I Married a Rock Star He made me the girl in his songIn the beginning, I was nothing more than an employee, a gift to his wealthy friends, the nanny who'd take care of their baby. Then we got to know each other.I always imagined a rock star would be arrogant and crude, but Tristan Alto was none of those things.Away from the limelight, he was charming, intelligent, and oh so worldly. He swept me off my feet, told me secrets I don't think anyone knew. I was his the moment he picked up his guitar and described me in song.Whoa! I Married a BikerWith one look, my engine revved...Tattoos and leather jackets are a dime a dozen in the music industry. And as goddaughter to one of the world's biggest rock legends, I've seen my fair share of bad boys on motorcycles. Then Wyatt Tanner enters the room... He has the bike, the tattoos, and the leather jacket. But he isn't a musician pretending to be bad. He's a real, bonafide bad-a-s-s. An ex-member of an outlaw biker gang, he's the only genuine person in a room full of pretenders. I'm instantly drawn to him...We click immediately. He makes me feel things I've never imagined existed outside of stories and songs. I can see myself spending my life with him. But then his old life catches up, and suddenly my happily ever after doesn't seem so happy after all. Can we beat the odds and find our happily ever after in Oakwood Falls? As always, this Megan Wade book comes with her 'Sugar Promise'. High heat, low drama, guaranteed.
A reformed rake sets his sights on true love in this steamy Regency romance by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Butterfly in Frost. The Marquess of Grayson never felt a twinge of guilt when he stole the beautiful Lady Pelham right out from under his best friend’s nose. After all, they were well matched in all things—their sensual appetites, wicked wits, provocative reputations, and their absolute refusal to ruin their marriage of convenience by falling in love. But then a shocking turn of events sent her roguish husband from her side. Four years later, he has returned a powerful, irresistible man who is determined to seduce his way into her affections. No, this is not at all the man she married. But he is the man who might finally steal her heart . . . Praise for The Stranger I Married “Boldly passionate, scorchingly sexy Regency romance.” —Booklist “The writing . . . is very smooth and readable and the love scenes very hot and nicely done.” —All About Romance
In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
A collection of essays extended from The New York Times' most-read article of 2016. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We don’t expect bliss every day. The fault isn’t entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we’re liable to meet is going to be rather wrong, in some fascinating way or another, because this is simply what all humans happen to be – including, sadly, ourselves. This collection of essays proposes that we don’t need perfection to be happy. So long as we enter our relationships in the right spirit, we have every chance of coping well enough with, and even delighting in, the inevitable and distinctive wrongness that lies in ourselves and our beloveds.
Many spouses in less-than-perfect marriages settle into a belief that they somehow picked the wrong marriage partner. What If I Married the Wrong Person? helps readers rebuild their marriages by recognizing and correcting distorted thinking patterns and learning skills for building intimacy. It offers empathy, perspective, and hope that their marriage choice can and will be redeemed.
