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Promised Brides
Three award-winning historical authors present this collection in which unwitting brides Sarah Vangelder, Amy McAlister, and Anne Clelland each pay the price of fortune and folly with matrimonial vows.
"The Wedding of the Century"
By Mary Jo Putney
Sarah Vangelder Stunningly beautiful, extraordinarily wealthy, and sold to the highest bidder for the price of a dukedom.
"Jesse's Wife"
By Kristin James
Amy McAlister The shy rancher's daughter had made one horrible mistake. And she would pay for it--with the rest of her life.
"The Handfast"
By Julie Tetel
Anne Clelland Mistakenly snatched in a whiskey-inspired raid, the young Englishwoman must marry a Scottish clansman for a year and a day.
"The Wedding of the Century"
By Mary Jo Putney
Sarah Vangelder Stunningly beautiful, extraordinarily wealthy, and sold to the highest bidder for the price of a dukedom.
"Jesse's Wife"
By Kristin James
Amy McAlister The shy rancher's daughter had made one horrible mistake. And she would pay for it--with the rest of her life.
"The Handfast"
By Julie Tetel
Anne Clelland Mistakenly snatched in a whiskey-inspired raid, the young Englishwoman must marry a Scottish clansman for a year and a day.
375 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 22, 1994
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About the author
Mary Jo Putney
169 books2,265 followersShe writes young adult fiction as M.J. Putney.
Mary Jo Putney was born on 1946 in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since.
While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes. When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fortune sometimes favors the foolish and her first book sold quickly, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better. (“But why didn't anyone tell me that writing would change the way one reads?”) Like a lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic design business to become a full-time writer as soon as possible.
Since 1987, Ms. Putney has published twenty-nine books and counting. Her stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual subject matter such as alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse. She has made all of the national bestseller lists including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USAToday, and Publishers Weekly. Five of her books have been named among the year’s top five romances by The Library Journal. The Spiral Path and Stolen Magic were chosen as one of Top Ten romances of their years by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.
A nine-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, she has won RITAs for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and is on the RWA Honor Roll for bestselling authors. She has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards, four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career achievement award for historical romance. Though most of her books have been historical, she has also published three contemporary romances. The Marriage Spell will be out in June 2006 in hardcover, and Stolen Magic (written as M. J. Putney) will be released in July 2006.
Ms. Putney says that not least among the blessings of a full-time writing career is that one almost never has to wear pantyhose.
Mary Jo Putney was born on 1946 in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since.
While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes. When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fortune sometimes favors the foolish and her first book sold quickly, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better. (“But why didn't anyone tell me that writing would change the way one reads?”) Like a lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic design business to become a full-time writer as soon as possible.
Since 1987, Ms. Putney has published twenty-nine books and counting. Her stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual subject matter such as alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse. She has made all of the national bestseller lists including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USAToday, and Publishers Weekly. Five of her books have been named among the year’s top five romances by The Library Journal. The Spiral Path and Stolen Magic were chosen as one of Top Ten romances of their years by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.
A nine-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, she has won RITAs for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and is on the RWA Honor Roll for bestselling authors. She has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards, four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career achievement award for historical romance. Though most of her books have been historical, she has also published three contemporary romances. The Marriage Spell will be out in June 2006 in hardcover, and Stolen Magic (written as M. J. Putney) will be released in July 2006.
Ms. Putney says that not least among the blessings of a full-time writing career is that one almost never has to wear pantyhose.
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September 29, 2019
"The Wedding of the Century" by Putney. Sarah Vangelder is a rich American whose mother is after a title. Justin is a younger son who unexpectedly inherits the dukedom but needs a rich bride. A real marriage finally develops despite misconceptions.
"Jesse's Wife" by Krstin James. Amy McAlister is the rich ranchers daughter and she's caught in a compromising position. An orphaned hand/friend volunteers to marry her. More preconceptions must be overcome to make the marriage work.
"The Handfast" by Julie Tetel. Not good enough to finish.
"Jesse's Wife" by Krstin James. Amy McAlister is the rich ranchers daughter and she's caught in a compromising position. An orphaned hand/friend volunteers to marry her. More preconceptions must be overcome to make the marriage work.
"The Handfast" by Julie Tetel. Not good enough to finish.
November 16, 2010
Great quick read
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March 10, 2016The wedding of the century by Mary Jo Putney
Jesse's wife by Kristin James
The handfast by Julie Tetel
Jesse's wife by Kristin James
The handfast by Julie Tetel
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