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Borrowed Bride

by Patricia Coughlin

Published 1996256 pagesISBN 978-0-3730-7722-9

Synopsis - He was kidnapping the bride! He was going to the chapel, but getting married was the last thing on Connor DeWolfe’s mind. He’d sworn to protect his best friend’s widow-even if that meant kidnapping bride to be Gaby Flanders right off the church steps. Somehow, he would convince her that she was marrying the wrong man...and that her life was in danger. If her safety and her young son’s was at stake, Gaby would trust Connor...for now. But she was more afraid of trusting herself. But she was more afraid of trusting herself. With danger just one step behind them, the biggest risk facing Gaby was surrendering her suddenly reckless, demanding heart to this lone wolf crusader...

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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ToneBalanced
LuminousDark

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Borrowed BridePatricia Coughlin
Powerful4.5/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read256 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1996
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3730-7722-9
Language
English
Edition record
OL10736643M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.