Wedding of the Century (Marry Me contemporary romance series Book 1)

Wedding of the Century (Marry Me contemporary romance series Book 1)
Author: Patricia McLinn
Publisher: Craig Place Books
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2016-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939215676

❤ Their botched wedding is only the start of their storybook romance. ❤ Annette Trevetti felt like a modern-day Cinderella as she walked down the aisle towards her first love and the heir to a small fortune. But her wedding day screeched to a halt when an extremely pregnant woman crashed the ceremony claiming Annette’s Prince Charming was the father. Devastated, Annette shakes off the dust of Tobias, Wisconsin, and starts a climb to build her own successful business. But when her brother gets injured on the job, she immediately returns to help him . . . even though it risks exposing the feelings she still harbors for the man who broke her heart. Single dad Steve Corbett's biggest regret is tied up with his greatest joy – his daughter. Now Annette’s homecoming seven years after she left him at the altar, makes him realize his love for her hasn't changed one bit. And if his matchmaking daughter, their one-of-a-kind elderly relative, and a circle of friends have it their way, they'd pick the romance up where it left off. It’s not that easy. Working alongside Annette to help with her brother's construction project, Steve senses the flicker of their old flame. But he knows it will take a lot of sweat and tears to rebuild the crumbling trust for a second chance at happily ever after. With years and heartache between them, can Annette and Steve learn to have faith in each other and rebuild a new future together in this first book in the Marry Me series. If you like fiery chemistry, precocious children, quirky matchmakers, and emotional journeys of the heart, you'll love USA Today bestseller Patricia McLinn's small-town romance about second chances. Wedding of the Century is a contemporary small-town romance about second chances. For readers of Catherina Maura, L. Steele, Melanie Harlow, Connie Dave, Nikki Lynn Barrett, Monique McDonnell, Holly Cortelyou, Juliet Sobanet, T L Swann. If you like fiery chemistry, precocious children, quirky matchmakers, romantic comedy and emotional feel-good journeys of the heart, then you’ll love USA Today bestselling author Patricia McLinn’s small-town romance. Praise for Wedding of the Century "So good that I read the whole book all the way through at one sitting. The characters were in-depth and honest." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Some spicy moments, some real twists and turns. A real page turner. I can't wait to read the rest of the series. Excellent!” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A real delight to read. It was fun, sassy, and even a little heart-breaking at times, too. There are secrets all over the place, and when each one is exposed, there's another twisty turn coming.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Grab some tissues and be prepared to both laugh and cry your way through this one! Oh my goodness! What an awesome read. It’s got a storyline that literally hurts your heart; amazing characters; plot twists and turns that keep you flipping the pages; and a HEA that takes your breath away. You'll want to read this one multiple times! ❤❤” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Page turner . . . started reading this story and got so enchanted I couldn't stop. The characters are fun and so true . . . It was like reading a storyline from my hometown.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “This book brought me to tears more than once but it also filled me with joy and excitement! I can't wait to begin book two.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I just fell in love with Nell. What an adorable, quirky little girl. This is an emotionally charged romance with endearing characters, and I am so glad I found this book. Happy reading!” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Made me cry and smile throughout.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I love this book. Notice I said love, and not loved? This book and its messages will stay with me a long time. . . . This is life, folks, with all its foibles.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A feel good but thought-provoking book about decisions made young that impact lives for too many years. This author has a great sense of humor and a heartfelt way of getting her messages across. A must read.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A great, moving story, with humor, emotion, and interesting characters." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Warm and tender." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Best book ever!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A wonderful story about two people who deserve to find happiness. The many truths that are revealed when Annette returns to Tobias, Wisconsin . . . are surprising and so very human . . . Read this beautifully told story." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Heartfelt!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Love, love, love this book. Very emotional, grabbed me from the beginning until the end. I cannot wait to read more of this series.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Great story, great characters, great everything. I really enjoyed this book. I wish I wasn’t done reading it.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Absolutely compelling! Patricia McMinn does it again. Wraps you up in the characters’ lives until you become a participant in the story.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Compelling! I really enjoyed this small town second chance romance because it has everything I hope to find when reading a book by Patricia McLinn who has been one of my favorite authors for quite a few years. . . . I can't wait to read the rest of this series and learn more about the people and the secrets of Tobias, Wisconsin." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get all the books in Patricia McLinn’s Marry Me series now! Wedding of the Century The Unexpected Wedding Guest A Most Unlikely Wedding Baby Blues and Wedding Bells Praise for the Marry Me series “With her two latest books set in a perfectly realized and perfectly charming small town, McLinn has created two beautifully written, richly emotional love stories that are a joy to read.” – John Charles, American Library Association “Fun to read series filled with great characters.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I love this series. The writing is captivating. Great story telling full of humor and love. I cannot wait to read the next one...” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I love the characters in this series. They are well developed and imperfect - just like all of us!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “My curiosity about where Zach went, and what he's been up to all this time, is driving me batty. Should be very interesting.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Search Terms related to this contemporary romantic comedy series: Feel good romance series, friends from college series, chosen family series, believable characters, family of the heart romance series, emotional women’s fiction, couldn’t put it down, happy ending, wonderful dialogue, Fun, lighthearted, romantic, steamy, and serious, sensuality, life and love, commitment Slow burn romances, Rom com books, feel good romance, feel good books for women, wedding romance series, Romance series books for women, Love story books, well written, couple with chemistry, charming cast of characters, romance series with audiobooks, romance comedy, romantic comedy series with audio, love and life, true love Opposites attract romance novels, books about falling in love, award-winning love stories, relationships, courtship, finding love, humorous romance, best-selling strong women fiction, believable characters, characters you like, characters change, happily ever after, funny, recommended, sweet, sexy, well-rounded characters, family histories, family life, strangers to lovers romance, Contemporary romance books, romance series books for women, heartwarming books, romance in Google Play Books, life lessons, humor, laughter and tears, laugh and cry, lovable characters, friendship, relationship, satisfying, love, sex, desire, fighting attraction, chance at happiness, unexpected, sexy, steamy, acclaimed, unputdownable, smart, strong, popular series, popular romance series to download and read, rom com series for ebooks, moving romance novel Feel-good romance, contemporary romance, romance for adults, swoonworthy, funny, female, stories, sensual, sensual romance, emotional journey, sassy, captivating romance, hot romance, sparks, love and friendship, family, love, love books, kissing books, lighthearted romance, light romance, USA today bestseller, Patricia McLinn books, Patricia McLinn romance Chicklit, chick lit, chicklit comedy, comedy series, funny romance, laugh romance, modern romance, smart romance, something funny to read, hot romance, hilarious, romance books, beach reads, sensual romance, heart-warming, family, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, long series, long romance series, captivating romance, books like movies, new romance, romance novel, romance book second chance at love, left at the altar, single father, reunion romance, matchmaker, second chance romance, former lovers, broken engagement, small town Wisconsin

The Convenient Marriage

The Convenient Marriage
Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2010-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1407089021

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER '[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS _____________ Horry Winwood doesn't play by the rules. So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a loveless marriage to a wealthy man to settle the family debts, young and headstrong Horry proposes to marry him in her sister's place. As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy. Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting. But there is bad blood between Horry's husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick. Will Horry's gamble cost her everything she holds most dear? _____________ 'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN 'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA 'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS _____________ Readers love The Convenient Marriage . . . ***** 'Another good read from Heyer!!! I absolutely loved the characters!!!' ***** 'Heyer's characterizations just sparkle and shine.' ***** 'Absolutely delightful. As expected, really.' ***** 'I enjoyed this historical romance very much.' ***** 'Splendid comedy, with a charming romance.'

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1408842408

'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind' The Times This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer. Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful early divorce, the excitement of selling her first book, driving a Winnebago from Montana to Yellowstone Park, her joyous discovery of opera, scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, starting her own bookshop in Nashville, her love for her very special dog and, of course, her eventual happy marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible warmth.

The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429969180

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011 A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine tries to understand why "it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France," real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old "friend" Mitchell Grammaticus—who's been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can't escape the secret responsible for Leonard's seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.

When Strangers Marry

When Strangers Marry
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Large print books
ISBN: 9781587244070

Anxious to esacpe her impending wedding to a much-despised fiance, Lysette Kersaint seeks refuge with Maximilien Vallerand, a dangerous and powerful rake for whom the innocent beauty represents his ultimate tool for revenge.

The Engagements

The Engagements
Author: J. Courtney Sullivan
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307958728

A People Magazine Top 10 Best Books of the Year • The New York Times best-selling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan “A Diamond is Forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true—or not—those words might be. "Sullivan is a born storyteller. Like its mineral muse, Engagements shines."—Entertainment Weekly Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, but their son’s messy divorce has put them at rare odds; James, a beleaguered paramedic, has spent most of his marriage haunted by his wife’s family’s expectations; Delphine has thrown caution to the wind and left a peaceful French life for an exciting but rocky romance in America; and Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As the stories connect to each other and to Frances’s legacy in surprising ways, The Engagements explores the complicated ins and outs of relationships, then, now, and forever.

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
Author: Jason B. Rosenthal
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062940627

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.

Marriage, a History

Marriage, a History
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2006-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101118253

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.

Marriage Made On Paper

Marriage Made On Paper
Author: Maisey Yates
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1742907423

When ambitious public relations expert Lily Ford signs a contract with hot–shot property tycoon Gage Forrester, she inadvertently signs her life away! A tough taskmaster, he wants Lily at his beck and call twenty–four–seven. Gage wants his employees to go above and beyond what's expected of them. So, when he needs to generate some positive PR, his solution is completely unexpected he proposes to Lily! All in the name of business, of course. This may be a deal struck on paper, but Gage is a stickler for tradition his bride must wear white on their wedding night!

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage
Author: Amy Sutherland
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008-02-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1588366901

While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home. The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin trainer do?” The answer was: nothing. Trainers reward the behavior they want and, just as important, ignore the behavior they don’t. Rather than appease her mate’s rising temper by joining in the search, or fuel his temper by nagging him to keep better track of his things in the first place, Sutherland kept her mouth shut and her eyes on the dishes she was washing. In short order, Scott found his keys and regained his cool. “I felt like I should throw him a mackerel,” she writes. In time, as she put more training principles into action, she noticed that she became more optimistic and less judgmental, and their twelve-year marriage was better than ever. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. In the end, the biggest lesson she learned is that the only animal you can truly change is yourself. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage describes Sutherland’s Alice-in-Wonderland experience of stumbling into a world where cheetahs walk nicely on leashes and elephants paint with watercolors, and of leaving a new, improved Homo sapiens.