Bartered Bride

Bartered Bride
Author: Anne Avery
Publisher: Fanfare
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780553579338

Lady Alyce Fitzmartin is forced to marry the arrogant Robert Wardell, the answer to her father's debts, and a man Alyce is certain she will never love. Yet an even more grave situation lies in wait. For Robert may not survive the impending overthrow of the King, unless he uses his new wife as a pawn. But one glance into each other's eyes sparks an unexpected yearning. And while England burns with the fire of revolt, Robert and Alyce discover a passion for which both must gamble their lives

The Bartered Bride Romance Collection

The Bartered Bride Romance Collection
Author: JoAnn A. Grote
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683226453

Treasure this beautiful collection packed with all the angst of romance founded upon practical arrangements. Four sisters travel in answer to an ad before even corresponding with potential husbands. Two women bend to the will of their parents in taking husbands. A widow commits to a stranger in name only. And two women on the Oregon Trail hitch their lives to men they’ve just met. Will love blossom for convenience sake?

The Bartered Bride

The Bartered Bride
Author: Mary Jo Putney
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345494210

After building a fortune in the exotic East, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott sets his sails for London to begin a new life. Then fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies where a European woman faces degradation and peril. Though saving her may cost Gavin his life, he cannot refuse to help the fierce beauty who touches his heart and soul with her indomitable spirit. Alexandra Warren is returning home from Australia as a widow and mother when a pirate attack condemns her to a life of servitude. A miracle arrives in the form of a steely-eyed Yankee captain, whose reckless courage wins them freedom and a safe passage home to London. Intimate strangers joined by too many secrets, they slowly begin to heal the past with attraction and tenderness—until an old enemy reaches out to threaten the passionate love Gavin has found with his irresistible bartered bride. From the Paperback edition.

The Bartered Bride

The Bartered Bride
Author: Erica Vetsch
Publisher: Barbour Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781628361070

Can true love result from a business deal? Jonathan Kennebrae is furious when his grandfather informs him that his future has been decided. He will marry Melissa Brooke or lose his inheritance. Melissa, too, is devastated when her parents make their announcement. As little more than a bargaining chip in her father’s business maneuvers, she feels her secure world slipping away. Can Jonathan and Melissa find a way out of this loveless marriage, or must they find a way forward together?

The Bartered Bride Collection

The Bartered Bride Collection
Author: Cathy Marie Hake
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Arranged marriage
ISBN: 9781620291559

Features nine stories about arranged marriages on the American frontier, including "The Wedding Wagon," "From Halter to Altar," and "From Carriage to Marriage."

The Bartered Bride

The Bartered Bride
Author: Bedřich Smetana
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1909
Genre: Operas
ISBN:

Grand Opera, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., season 1938-1939, A. Conti Berenguer, general manager, Amelia Conti, artistic director, Cornilia M. Bowie, treasurer, "The Bartered Bride," comic opera in three acts by Frederic Smetana, English translation and adaptation by Josepha Chekova, conductor: Angelo Canarutto, dances by Vecheslav Swoboda's Ballet.

Pure Princess, Bartered Bride

Pure Princess, Bartered Bride
Author: Caitlin Crews
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426847947

When a French mogul marries a demure princess, he’s determined to discover his bride’s wild side in the USA Today–bestselling author’s sexy romance. Luc Garnier always gets what he wants. And now he wants a perfect bride. She must be a woman of nobility and elegance, one with an impeccable reputation—and no dirty secrets in her past. Princess Gabrielle is invaluable—a pearl beyond price. Yet Luc has defied the odds, and a contract for marriage is drawn up. This will be a union on paper first, and in the bedroom later. Yet Gabrielle is just as well behaved in private as she is in public. The more Luc admires this proper princess, the more he is determined to find the wanton woman within . . .

Bartered Brides

Bartered Brides
Author: Nancy Lindisfarne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 1991-05-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0521381584

A detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan.

The Scoundrel's Bartered Bride

The Scoundrel's Bartered Bride
Author: Virginia Heath
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488065772

Marriage... To the highest bidder Lady Lydia Barton cannot seem to avoid Owen Wolfe since he’s returned after being wrongly transported for stealing her family’s jewels! But Lydia has more pressing problems, like her impending arranged marriage. Until Owen makes her father a counteroffer for her hand. Is Owen purely after her society connections, or dare Lydia hope that the charming stable boy she once loved is still within her ruthless, wealthy new husband? “Virginia Heath’s writing is as warm, witty, and insightful as ever...one of the best authors of historical romance around.” —All About Romance on The Determined Lord Hadleigh “I loved every minute of this story along with the wonderful witty moments that I have come to love from Virginia Heath’s writing.” —Rae Reads on The Determined Lord Hadleigh From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

THE BARTERED BRIDE

THE BARTERED BRIDE
Author: Anne Weale
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459263073

Contract—one wife! Reid Kennard is a ruthless financier used to buying and selling stocks, shares and priceless artifacts. But now Reid has his eye on a very different acquisition—Francesca Turner. Left destitute by her father's recent death, Francesca had walked into Reid's bank looking to extend her overdraft rather than for a marriage proposal! As Fran needs money and Reid needs a wife, he proposes the perfect barter: he'll rescue her and her family if she'll agree to marry him! But in this marriage of convenience can Fran ever be anything more than a bartered bride? Of A Marriage Has Been Arranged: "Talented writer Anne Weale's…masterful character development and charming scenes create a rich reading experience." —Romantic Times