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Marriage for keeps

by Karen Young

Published 1999376 pagesISBN 978-0-3738-3407-5

Jilted by Karen Young On the night before her wedding, Rachel Winthrop's fiance elopes with someone else. It's the jerk's brother who steps in to offer comfort and support. And the next thing you know, there's a baby to consider... Born to Wed by Gina Wilkins Sasha and Alan have known each other their entire lives. Their parents are best friends, and even own a vacation cabin together. Neither the anxious bride nor the jittery groom realize that the other has beat a hasty retreat to the cabin to figure out how to call off the perfect wedding! To Hire and to Hold by Margot Dalton When Lee and David, total strangers who met during parallel job interviews, find out they've both been hired, they rashly solve an employment requirement dilemma by getting married. To each other. They couldn't know the boss's wife considers it her mission to keep their sham marriage intact!

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. 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

Fiction · Romance

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Powerful4.4/5

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Reading lengthA standard-length read376 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1999
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Romance
ISBN-13
978-0-3738-3407-5
Language
English
Edition record
OL24942056M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, 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 does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.