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Marriage By Capture by Margaret Rome released on Sep 24, 1980 is available now for purchase.
152 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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July 19, 2024
This one pairs up a Canadian tycoon hero and a high society Scottish socialite. He blackmails her into marriage in exchange for not pressing charges against her unscrupulous embezzler of a fiance.
The spiteful heroine makes a mockery of the wedding ceremony by insisting on following antiquated Norse customs and traditions. As revenge, H changes plans for the honeymoon. Instead of a lavish voyage to Canada, he brings her to his old family farm in Scotland, which has neither electricity or plumbing.
The hero's plan to torture the heroine by forcing her into a primitive setting backfires when the h gets a wee bit too attached to the cute chickies, lambs, and bunnies residing on the farm, preventing the H from killing one for dinner. But things really take a turn for the worse when one of the cute baby lambs gets sick and the h's maternal instinct goes into full gear, hugging him to her bosom and sleeping with him in the marital bed, to H's great exasperation. Unfortunately, the H has to sneak poor little lamb-lamb off for a mercy killing and when h finds out, she acts as if he is Attila the Hun and Hannibal Lecter combined.
Really cruel words are hurled back and fro. h gets all racistish and taunts H with rumors about his half-Native blood, prompting the H to make an impassioned speech about the dismal genocide of Native Tribes and the decimation of precious natural resources because of the greed and selfishness of white settlers. That really puts the h in her place but it isn't until she runs away from the farm and meets her mother-in-law and they have an enlightening discussion about H's character and integrity that she sees him in a new light and realizes she is in luuuuuuurve.
She promptly runs back to her jilted hubby and now the tables are turned as he wants nothing to do with her and will give her an annulment but she manages to seduce him by crawling naked on her knees in the sand and jumping his bones. She confesses her ILY, which he eagerly reciprocates and we get our HEA.
This one is ok if you like obsessed, mine-mine-mine, barracuda heroes who think nothing of forcing their woman's hand in matrimony but never cross the line into forced seduction. The death of poor little Peter the Lamb may mar the general enjoyment of this story for animal lovers though.
The spiteful heroine makes a mockery of the wedding ceremony by insisting on following antiquated Norse customs and traditions. As revenge, H changes plans for the honeymoon. Instead of a lavish voyage to Canada, he brings her to his old family farm in Scotland, which has neither electricity or plumbing.
The hero's plan to torture the heroine by forcing her into a primitive setting backfires when the h gets a wee bit too attached to the cute chickies, lambs, and bunnies residing on the farm, preventing the H from killing one for dinner. But things really take a turn for the worse when one of the cute baby lambs gets sick and the h's maternal instinct goes into full gear, hugging him to her bosom and sleeping with him in the marital bed, to H's great exasperation. Unfortunately, the H has to sneak poor little lamb-lamb off for a mercy killing and when h finds out, she acts as if he is Attila the Hun and Hannibal Lecter combined.
Really cruel words are hurled back and fro. h gets all racistish and taunts H with rumors about his half-Native blood, prompting the H to make an impassioned speech about the dismal genocide of Native Tribes and the decimation of precious natural resources because of the greed and selfishness of white settlers. That really puts the h in her place but it isn't until she runs away from the farm and meets her mother-in-law and they have an enlightening discussion about H's character and integrity that she sees him in a new light and realizes she is in luuuuuuurve.
She promptly runs back to her jilted hubby and now the tables are turned as he wants nothing to do with her and will give her an annulment but she manages to seduce him by crawling naked on her knees in the sand and jumping his bones. She confesses her ILY, which he eagerly reciprocates and we get our HEA.
This one is ok if you like obsessed, mine-mine-mine, barracuda heroes who think nothing of forcing their woman's hand in matrimony but never cross the line into forced seduction. The death of poor little Peter the Lamb may mar the general enjoyment of this story for animal lovers though.
November 3, 2015
It's hard to believe I once devoured the old-school Harlequins. I'm now embarrassed by the florid prose!
This one has a fairly simple premise. Girl's fiancé has embezzled money from a client. Said client wants to prosecute, but has fallen in lust/love with said girl. He agrees to not prosecute if girl will marry him. Embezzling fiancé is more than happy to give her up to escape notoriety and prison. Girl marries him but is determined to hate her husband. He's determined to seduce her but won't force/rape her. She falls madly in love with husband. Whew!
I absolutely could not stand Claire! What a spoiled, stuck-up brat!!! Admittedly, it was partly due to the way her father raised her. But still, I cannot see why any man would fall in love with her! Plus, she's totally racist against Native Americans!
And them she goes from hating him to loving him in, literally, one day! Like, 6 hours, just because she talked to his mom.
SMH and laughing!
This one has a fairly simple premise. Girl's fiancé has embezzled money from a client. Said client wants to prosecute, but has fallen in lust/love with said girl. He agrees to not prosecute if girl will marry him. Embezzling fiancé is more than happy to give her up to escape notoriety and prison. Girl marries him but is determined to hate her husband. He's determined to seduce her but won't force/rape her. She falls madly in love with husband. Whew!
I absolutely could not stand Claire! What a spoiled, stuck-up brat!!! Admittedly, it was partly due to the way her father raised her. But still, I cannot see why any man would fall in love with her! Plus, she's totally racist against Native Americans!
And them she goes from hating him to loving him in, literally, one day! Like, 6 hours, just because she talked to his mom.
SMH and laughing!
July 21, 2025
Set on the Isle of Mann, this is a forced marriage story which combines a travelogue (and history) with the hero's relentless pursuit of the ice queen heroine.
Heroine is an ice queen because her father is a snob and her mother died when heroine was a small child. The story opens with the heroine wondering how she's going to get through another boring dinner as her father's hostess. We find out she's engaged to a dry stick of a man (with a gambling problem!) and that a rich Canadian is going to join them on the Isle concerning an investment.
Rich Canadian is the hero. He falls in love at first sight with the outraged heroine and claims he always gets what he wants.
A chapter later, they are married in a Viking ceremony with the heroine wearing the traditional black. Hero blackmailed her into marriage by promising to not press charges against her fiance for embezzlement.
Heroine's black dress surprise prompts the hero switch their honeymoon to a remote thatched cottage on the Isle that once belonged to his ancestors. This was shaping up to be another King of Swords situation, but the hero is way nicer and shoulders most of the cooking.
The H/h gradually get to know each other and heroine grows up a lot. Poor hero suffers for his patience and heroine eventually proves more immature than frozen.
The black moment comes when a baby lamb dies. Heroine seems younger than ever, but hero is willing to forgive her anything when she swim nude in the sea.
Very abrupt ending. But all is well for a fade-to-black vintage HEA.
Heroine is an ice queen because her father is a snob and her mother died when heroine was a small child. The story opens with the heroine wondering how she's going to get through another boring dinner as her father's hostess. We find out she's engaged to a dry stick of a man (with a gambling problem!) and that a rich Canadian is going to join them on the Isle concerning an investment.
Rich Canadian is the hero. He falls in love at first sight with the outraged heroine and claims he always gets what he wants.
A chapter later, they are married in a Viking ceremony with the heroine wearing the traditional black. Hero blackmailed her into marriage by promising to not press charges against her fiance for embezzlement.
Heroine's black dress surprise prompts the hero switch their honeymoon to a remote thatched cottage on the Isle that once belonged to his ancestors. This was shaping up to be another King of Swords situation, but the hero is way nicer and shoulders most of the cooking.
The H/h gradually get to know each other and heroine grows up a lot. Poor hero suffers for his patience and heroine eventually proves more immature than frozen.
The black moment comes when a baby lamb dies. Heroine seems younger than ever, but hero is willing to forgive her anything when she swim nude in the sea.
Very abrupt ending. But all is well for a fade-to-black vintage HEA.
May 28, 2012
واحدة من افضل ما قرأت من الروايات على الاطلاق
تنمر
عداء
حب في حياء
بغضاء
حب واضح
ستار!
تنمر
عداء
حب في حياء
بغضاء
حب واضح
ستار!
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November 13, 2020CClaire regarded him as an uncouth savage
No one as poised and elegant as Claire Foxdale could be expected to put up with Rolf Ramsey!
Like one of his adventurous ancestors, Rolf was a man of the Canadian wilderness. When circumstances demanded that they marry, Claire's contempt was boundless.
Neither was their stay in a primitive cottage her idea of a honeymoon. Then she discovered that even a refined socialite had something to learn from a rugged northwoods loner.
No one as poised and elegant as Claire Foxdale could be expected to put up with Rolf Ramsey!
Like one of his adventurous ancestors, Rolf was a man of the Canadian wilderness. When circumstances demanded that they marry, Claire's contempt was boundless.
Neither was their stay in a primitive cottage her idea of a honeymoon. Then she discovered that even a refined socialite had something to learn from a rugged northwoods loner.
September 8, 2012
I have read this story once before many many years, and in my own language, so reading it in it's original language was like reading it afresh.
The story was soooo good I just kept turning the pages and in the end I was teary eyes, all in all I love this author she really gives a new definition to the word romance….
The story was soooo good I just kept turning the pages and in the end I was teary eyes, all in all I love this author she really gives a new definition to the word romance….
February 14, 2014
Loved it <3 It's pretty well-written, and the characters are pretty well fleshed out.
At first it was really slow and basically interesting but than i really loved it, especially Claire .. i saw myself in her ^_^
it's great book i love Margaret Rome, her writings're so pretty & i love the old Harlequin novels & this novel's a pretty standard for those times (1980).
At first it was really slow and basically interesting but than i really loved it, especially Claire .. i saw myself in her ^_^
it's great book i love Margaret Rome, her writings're so pretty & i love the old Harlequin novels & this novel's a pretty standard for those times (1980).
February 18, 2013
I actually read this book during my HS days, one of the "older" books in my mom's stash, haha. I appreciated the story, reading again after so many years. Although the condition upon which the h agreed to marry the H was a bit preposterous (like really, why would you have a spineless fiancee's #$%* ?), rest of the story was ok for me. The tension between H and h was exciting. The H intended to "teach the spoiled h a lesson" by bringing her in the primtive ancestral cottage for her childish ways but clearly, he cared for her that the H actually cut her slack despite being helplessly undomesticated. I love the part where the H realized that what he felt for the h was true love and not just desire, albeit he felt it was too late for both of them.
June 23, 2019
(repost of my earlier entry)I actually read this book during my HS days, one of the "older" books in my mom's stash, haha. I appreciated the story, reading again after so many years. Although the condition upon which the h agreed to marry the H was a bit preposterous (like really, why would you have a spineless fiancee's #$%* ?), rest of the story was ok for me. The tension between H and h was exciting. The H intended to "teach the spoiled h a lesson" by bringing her in the primtive ancestral cottage for her childish ways but clearly, he cared for her that the H actually cut her slack despite being helplessly undomesticated. I love the part where the H realized that what he felt for the h was true love and not just desire, albeit he felt it was too late for both of them
March 12, 2017
رواية رائعة بمعنى الكلمة حافظت على كبرياء المرأة وبنفس الوقت اظهرت حبها ورقتها وحافظت على رجولة البطل بنفس الوقت اظهرت عطفه وحنانه وهي تحكي عن الحب الحقيقي الذي ينتج من العشرة وبمرور الوقت بين الزوجين بعد ان يبدأ بنظرة اعجاب ..
March 18, 2018
This books gives one a splitting headache! Claire and Rolf were certainly annoying and above them the writing style. A very disappointing read.
April 15, 2024
What an odd duck of a book. I enjoyed it, because it was kinda weird. It's slow to start, and spends a huge amount of time detailing the life, customs and history of the Isle of Mann. Clearly the author had read about the Nordic custom of 'marriage by capture' because the titular wedding scene describing this custom goes on and on and on foreveeeer!
There is also a strangely disturbing scene in which the hero is trying to hard-seduce the heroine... in front of a dying lamb. The lamb is bleating in pain, so naturally the heroine breaks off the make-out session so she can tend to the poor creature... and the hero is ENRAGED. He slams out of the houyse in a fury, and then strangles the lamb to death in the night. This we are told is an act of mercy, but one cannot help but agree with the heroine when she accuses him of killing it because it got in the way of his planned seduction.
The biggest sin of all, however, was the book ended with the heroine on her knees begging and groveling to the hero, while he smugly informs her 'I told you I would get you to beg me on your knees'. Hoe doesn't return her love confession, the very last line in the book is him rubbing it in. What the hell???? What woman on earth wants to read a romance in which the hero is a total twat throughout and heroine is the one to snivel and beg an apology to him??
Yep... and real odd book. So bizarre, I felt funny reading this.
There is also a strangely disturbing scene in which the hero is trying to hard-seduce the heroine... in front of a dying lamb. The lamb is bleating in pain, so naturally the heroine breaks off the make-out session so she can tend to the poor creature... and the hero is ENRAGED. He slams out of the houyse in a fury, and then strangles the lamb to death in the night. This we are told is an act of mercy, but one cannot help but agree with the heroine when she accuses him of killing it because it got in the way of his planned seduction.
The biggest sin of all, however, was the book ended with the heroine on her knees begging and groveling to the hero, while he smugly informs her 'I told you I would get you to beg me on your knees'. Hoe doesn't return her love confession, the very last line in the book is him rubbing it in. What the hell???? What woman on earth wants to read a romance in which the hero is a total twat throughout and heroine is the one to snivel and beg an apology to him??
Yep... and real odd book. So bizarre, I felt funny reading this.
December 6, 2014
This one i am on a fence about. I thought It might be a four star. But i could not stand the Heroine she was to not a nice person. The Hero grew on me although he spoke as if he was some literary poet just too much sometime. I did like the story plot.
August 2, 2019
DNF
The H is from Canada and is apparently friends with "the natives" but I couldn't get past the outdated language and the patronizing tone in reference to First Nation people. And come on, looking down on "the natives" is not snobbery, it's racism and ignorance.
The H is from Canada and is apparently friends with "the natives" but I couldn't get past the outdated language and the patronizing tone in reference to First Nation people. And come on, looking down on "the natives" is not snobbery, it's racism and ignorance.
July 18, 2013
very nice one. love it:-)
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