LUCKY CHARM SISTERS KATE: Join her this month MAGGIE: Coming in February 1999 SUSAN: Don't miss her in March 1999 THE TWELVE-MONTH MARRIAGE Their marriage was a business agreement, plain and simple. Will Hardison needed a wife to prevent women from chasing his millions. Kate O'Connor needed help so she could build her late father's dream. So they struck a deal—they'd marry for one year, and both of their problems would be solved. Of course, there would be no touching…or kissing…or making soul-searing love…or giving away hearts. But then came the wedding night…! The Lucky Charm Sisters: A boss, a brain and a beauty. Three sisters marry for convenience…but will they find love?
She loves him. He loves her not. Or that's what Sam thought at the time. Longtime friends, Sam and Kate, began the night at the lakeside to watch the summer sunset. Someone named Sam ruined the night when he scheduled an airplane proposal for his girlfriend Kate. Kate thought her secret crush on Sam was a secret. And, she had no idea he could be so romantic. She asked for time to consider the proposal. Sam needed time to explain that the proposal didn't come from him.A handsome stranger, a rafting accident, and a daring rescue open Sam's eyes to the truth. He's been in love with Kate for longer than he'd care to admit. Except, the tides have turned and Kate doesn't want to have anything to do with Sam. Ashbrook, Montana loves a long-awaited happily ever after. So Sam has friends and family on his side. It won't matter if he doesn't figure out what convinced Kate to change her mind? Even more important, what will it take to get her to change it back? Get your copy of this small town romance and fall in love with the friends and family of Ashbrook, Montana.
Offering a wry, sharp, and unfailingly honest look at marital life (and strife), in 79 (very) short stories. Rhodes’s deft use of language spares no emotion and leaves no romantic stone unturned—husbands, wives, lovers, and all combinations thereof are ripe for the picking (and choosing). The result is a collection of vignettes both funny and subtle, outrageous and poignant, equal parts absurd and all-too-familiar.
A fake fiancé never felt so real. The idea of facing my cheating ex at a friend's upcoming wedding sends me right back to the chubby, insecure guy I was when I met my very straight best friend. Since then Jude has been the most supportive person in my life. So when I ask him for a favor, he steps up and becomes the best fake fiancé a guy could ask for. With three months before the big day, my friends rally to make sure we come across as authentic as possible. Jude takes to the lessons better than any of us anticipated. Especially the kissing. Now the fake engagement is starting to feel kind of real. This wedding should be really interesting... Marry Me is a steamy, best friends to lovers, fake fiancé, gay awakening, low angst story. It is book one in the Tattoos and Temptation series featuring hot Miami nights, Latin desserts, and guys with ink. It can be read as a standalone.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.
The rugged loner Jake Sullivan has finally returned home-to find a brazen, beautiful trespasser in his bed. Emily Bright intends to stay but has Jake been saddled with an unwanted intruder or blessed with a bride?
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’s author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column —”You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal ad—in which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demise—the column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide. In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amy’s wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to heal—how he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jason’s emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned. As he reflects on Amy’s gift to him—a fresh start to fill his empty space with a new story—Jason describes how he continues to honor Amy’s life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on life’s joys in the wake of tremendous loss.
