Courting Trouble

Courting Trouble
Author: Deeanne Gist
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1441202196

Tired of Waiting for a Match-Made-in-Heaven, She'll Settle for One Made in Texas Whether it's riding bikes, catching snakes, or sliding down banisters, Essie Spreckelmeyer just can't quite make herself into the ideal woman her hometown--and her mother--expect her to be. It's going to take an extraordinary man to appreciate her joy and spontaneity--or so says her doting oil-man father. Unfortunately such a man doesn't appear to reside in Corsicana, Texas. It's 1894, the year of Essie's thirtieth birthday, and she decides the Lord has more important things to do than provide her a husband. If she wants one, she needs to catch him herself. So, she writes down the names of all the eligible bachelors in her small Texas town, makes a list of their attributes and drawbacks, closes her eyes, twirls her finger, and ... picks one. But convincing the lucky "husband-to-be" is going to a bit more of a problem. Join Deeanne Gist for another unforgettable tale and find out whether Essie's plan to catch a husband succeeds or if she's just Courting Trouble.

Courting Trouble

Courting Trouble
Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061740926

Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered -- above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she's got to play dead. She'll have to trust people she barely knows -- colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, and an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose.

Courting Trouble

Courting Trouble
Author: Kathy Lette
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448154235

Tilly has the day from hell when she's sacked from her barristers' chambers in the morning, then finds her husband in bed with her former best friend in the afternoon. She escapes to her mother, Roxy - a sassy solicitor whose outrageous take on men, work and family life is the despair of her more conventional daughter. Roxy comes up with a radical plan for their future - they'll set up an all-female law firm which will only champion women who have been cheated, put upon, attacked, ripped off or ruined by the men in their lives. In court, Tilly finds herself up against Jack Cassidy, the smooth-talking, politically incorrect, legal love god who broke her heart at law school. Jack is fluent in three languages – English, sarcasm and flirtation... but if he's so loathsome, then why is she committing Acute Lust in the 3rd degree? When a case lands on the doorstep that threatens to change all their lives, Tilly finds herself dangerously close to taking the law into her own hands... Will Jack's cunning ways and expertise in emotional break and enter derail her quest for justice? Or will the women take on the boys... and win?

Courting Trouble

Courting Trouble
Author: Nonnie St. George
Publisher: Zebra Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: England
ISBN: 9780821775912

A cynical duke determined to marry only for money finds himself competing for the heart of a wealthy woman who's holding out for true love. Original.

Courting Trouble

Courting Trouble
Author: Kerrigan Byrne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781648390005

A brand-new deliciously wicked romance series from USA Today Bestselling Author Kerrigan Byrne. The Goode Girls are aren't simply good, they're stunning. Doctor Titus Conleith emerged from his time as a battlefield surgeon with a mysterious fortune, a lethal secret, and a demon on his back. Ruthlessly intelligent, he was able to lift himself from his beginnings as coal-stained bastard through merciless discipline and inexhaustible skill. Alone by choice, he swore never to open his heart to another. Not after Honoria Goode. The heiress who shattered his hopes and then tread upon the shards of his heart with her bejeweled slippers. The beauty with whom he shared his first taste of passion, before she gave her hand to another. The woman whose life he just saved from bleeding out on his table... Honoria's life as a Viscountess has been nothing but a misery she'd brought upon herself with her own cowardice. Trapped for years in a loveless marriage to a cruel rake, she has been widowed by the consequences of his villainy. Now, she must face the man with the blazing golden eyes of the boy she once worshiped, and the dark past they both share. As their passion reignites with the same fervor of their youth, Honoria can't help but begin to wonder... Will he allow her the second chance she doesn't deserve?

The Trouble with Brides

The Trouble with Brides
Author: Deeanne Gist
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 699
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0764208934

A collection of three bestselling historical novels; independent, feisty women find love and God's plan for them in these humorous romances.

Courting Trouble

Courting Trouble
Author: Patricia Wilson
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780373174256

Wild Romance

Wild Romance
Author: Chloë Schama
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1408814722

In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, nineteen-year-old Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. Their flirtation soon blossomed into a clandestine, epistolary affair, and five years later they married secretly in Edinburgh. Then, that same summer, they married again in Dublin - or did they? Separated by circumstance soon after they were wed, Theresa and Charles would never live together as husband and wife. And when Yelverton married another woman, an abandoned Theresa found herself forced to prove the validity of her marriage. Multiple trials ensued, and the press and the public seized upon the scandal and reported its every detail with relish. Wild Romance is the inspiring tale of a woman who never gave up, and who held on to her ideals of independence, dignity and - despite everything - love.

Deep in the Heart of Trouble

Deep in the Heart of Trouble
Author: Deeanne Gist
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1441202218

Humorous romance from a bestselling, Christy-award-winning author. Sequel to Courting Trouble, set in Texas in the 1890's.

Courting Desire

Courting Desire
Author: Rama Srinivasan
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1978803559

Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape.