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The Secret Lives of Society Wives #2
The Soon-To-Be-Disinherited Wife
SECRETS, LIES...AND MONEY
Socialite Emma Dearborn's future was all planned out for her: the perfect wedding, the perfect husband, the perfect life. Then Garrett Keating returned.
He wasn't about to let Emma go through with her farce of a marriage, and he set out to stop her...seduction being at the top of his list. But if Emma didn't walk down the aisle by her birthday, she stood to lose an inheritance worth millions.
Just how far would Garrett be willing to go to have Emma? All the way to the altar?
Socialite Emma Dearborn's future was all planned out for her: the perfect wedding, the perfect husband, the perfect life. Then Garrett Keating returned.
He wasn't about to let Emma go through with her farce of a marriage, and he set out to stop her...seduction being at the top of his list. But if Emma didn't walk down the aisle by her birthday, she stood to lose an inheritance worth millions.
Just how far would Garrett be willing to go to have Emma? All the way to the altar?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 2010
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About the author
Jennifer Greene
277 books165 followersWinner of over 15 national awards, including the RWA Hall of Fame and the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, Jennifer Greene weaves real issues, warm characters common-life humor, and page-turning romance and suspense into her stories.
Jennifer sold her first book in 1980, and since then has sold over 85 books in the contemporary romance genre. She won her first professional writing award from RWA, a “Silver Medallion” in 1984, followed by over 20 nominations and awards —including achieving RWA’s HALL OF FAME status, and the most coveted Nora Roberts LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
Jennifer has regularly been on a variety of bestseller lists, and has written for Harlequin, Avon, Berkley and Dell. Her books have sold all over the world in over 20 languages. She also accumulated a number of pseudonyms—most recognizably JENNIFER GREENE, but also JEANNE GRANT and JESSICA MASSEY.
She was born in Michigan, started writing stories in 7th grade, and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English and Psychology. The University honored her with their “Lantern Night Award”, a tradition developed to honor fifty outstanding women graduates each year. Exploring issues and concerns for women today is what first motivated her to write, and she has long been an enthusiastic and active supporter of women’s fiction, which she believes is an unbeatable way to reach out and support other women.
Jennifer lives in Michigan, just a short distance from Lake Michigan, with her husband Lar.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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aka Jeanne Grant
Jennifer sold her first book in 1980, and since then has sold over 85 books in the contemporary romance genre. She won her first professional writing award from RWA, a “Silver Medallion” in 1984, followed by over 20 nominations and awards —including achieving RWA’s HALL OF FAME status, and the most coveted Nora Roberts LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
Jennifer has regularly been on a variety of bestseller lists, and has written for Harlequin, Avon, Berkley and Dell. Her books have sold all over the world in over 20 languages. She also accumulated a number of pseudonyms—most recognizably JENNIFER GREENE, but also JEANNE GRANT and JESSICA MASSEY.
She was born in Michigan, started writing stories in 7th grade, and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English and Psychology. The University honored her with their “Lantern Night Award”, a tradition developed to honor fifty outstanding women graduates each year. Exploring issues and concerns for women today is what first motivated her to write, and she has long been an enthusiastic and active supporter of women’s fiction, which she believes is an unbeatable way to reach out and support other women.
Jennifer lives in Michigan, just a short distance from Lake Michigan, with her husband Lar.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
(1)romance
aka Jeanne Grant
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March 23, 2017
Emma Dearborn is engaged to Reed Kelly, and despite their seemingly passionless relationship, where they're both pretty much too busy for one another, she is content with how things are. She doesn't believe it could be any better anyway. Until Garrett Keating, Emma's first love, comes back to town. Suddenly she's feeling passion and realizing that a staid life with Reed might not be what she wants. But once she decides to leave Reed and pursue Garrett, her parents reveal to her that the inheritance she has always expected to receive on her 30th birthday will only come to her if she's married before then.
I kinda liked the concept here...and it was interesting to see a woman face-to-face with the man who left and broke her heart and for her to admit that she really was over it. Apparently she'd been heart broken at first but she really did understand and didn't hold any grudges against him. That's an unexpected turn of events in this genre. I wasn't a fan of the infidelity...Emma, while still engaged to Reed, engages in some heavy makeout sessions with Garrett and neither of them really think about Reed at the time. At least she waited til she broke it off with Reed before going to bed with Garrett. So depending on your definition of infidelity, this may or may not be for you. I think I may have dealt better with it if she'd been honest with Garrett, even when breaking it off with him. The book ends with . This author also uses a lot of cliche idiomatic expressions - many of them rather old-fashioned. So it didn't feel like being in the head of a 20-something socialite. I did think that the characters in this story had good chemistry and were on the whole very likeable (aside from the cheating thing). I felt sorry for Reed though who basically just endured 2 or 3 years of celibacy for nothing.
I kinda liked the concept here...and it was interesting to see a woman face-to-face with the man who left and broke her heart and for her to admit that she really was over it. Apparently she'd been heart broken at first but she really did understand and didn't hold any grudges against him. That's an unexpected turn of events in this genre. I wasn't a fan of the infidelity...Emma, while still engaged to Reed, engages in some heavy makeout sessions with Garrett and neither of them really think about Reed at the time. At least she waited til she broke it off with Reed before going to bed with Garrett. So depending on your definition of infidelity, this may or may not be for you. I think I may have dealt better with it if she'd been honest with Garrett, even when breaking it off with him. The book ends with . This author also uses a lot of cliche idiomatic expressions - many of them rather old-fashioned. So it didn't feel like being in the head of a 20-something socialite. I did think that the characters in this story had good chemistry and were on the whole very likeable (aside from the cheating thing). I felt sorry for Reed though who basically just endured 2 or 3 years of celibacy for nothing.
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October 29, 2024
Either the author cannot count or just purposefully decided to ignore that for a 6 year age gap to exist between the main characters and for them to date “while they were teenagers”, the relationship must have been between a 13yo and 19yo. Sounds like a case for Chris Hansen to me. 0/5
July 1, 2018
Loppuun asti piti otteessaan!! Hyvä kirja!!
May 16, 2024
Overly simplistic style, boring, uninteresting characters and not much plot.
September 23, 2011
Good continuation with the connecting of the books in series, but I thought there was too much going on in this book, so much so, that the couple's story was almost the 'b' story. Plus I heard more from the hero's sister than I wanted to actually. It just wasn't long enough for all that was going on but what was there was pretty good.
November 24, 2010
Godawful title. A socialite and businessman rekindle their teen romance; her existing engagement and her grandmothers she-must-marry-before-30-or-be-disinherited plot device will throw a spanner into the works. Better than it sounds but the ending was really, really abrupt.
August 7, 2013
it was plain boring 4 me n i did not enjoy it at all
November 11, 2016
D1731 Jun06. Secret Lives of Society Wives. Garett Keating didn't know if their romantic entanglement was real, or a ruse in order for Emma Dearborn to inherit her multimillion-dollar inheritance.
April 18, 2017
It wasn't a bad book. Definitely could have been better though.
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