In the latest Harlequin Romance from Kate Hardy, a lawyer reluctantly offers her work rival a deal… She’ll drop out of the running for partner—if he’ll marry her! Her husband for a year… “Will you marry me?” are words career-focused lawyer Catriona never expected to say. Especially not to her rival, Dominic. But to inherit her much-loved ancestral home, she must marry—immediately! Proposing a deal that benefits them both, Catriona trusts Dominic to keep it professional. After one failed engagement, she’s determined to keep this marriage on-paper only. Except planning their wedding reveals a connection she can’t ignore… Could one year become a lifetime? From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.

Blackmailed by the billionaire! Allegra Kallas detests Draco Papandreou—and she especially can't stand the desire she feels whenever she sees the arrogant man who once rejected her! So she's horrified when her father's business runs into debt and the only man who can save them is none other than the ruthless Greek… No matter how much Allegra protests, Draco knows the driven career woman feels the fire which rages between them. And he's not above using his power to blackmail her into confessing it! To satisfy their cravings, Draco has a sinful plan: he'll make Allegra his wife, and seduce her into his bed…

Two enemies. One wedding. The plan was simple . . . until they started to fall for each other. Noah and Olivia are total opposites. She's buttoned up and proper, focused entirely on her career, and has no time for messy, inconvenient feelings. He's a big-hearted bachelor who loves pushing her buttons and has always secretly pined for the feisty heroine. The fact that she's vowed to never fall for him? Doesn't deter him in the slightest. A NYC playboy turned business mogul has ninety days to win over the woman he's always desired in order to save his father's company. One tiny problem: she hates his guts. Note: This book was previously published under an alternate pseudonym.

For her entire life, Rafraf, a devout Muslim, had been told that Americans were the enemy. Her understanding of the world, of her place in it, and of the United States had been steeped in the culture of Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein. Yet, in the midst of insurgents attempting to kidnap and kill her, she found herself on the receiving end of lifesaving help from those she considered her enemies. Rafraf suddenly finds herself living with a Christian family in the Bible Belt of America. Nothing had prepared her for this new reality—the life of a college student in a vastly foreign culture, in a community as far from her expectations as she could have imagined, and in a family that opens their hearts to enfold her. Saved by Her Enemy is a riveting journey of two very different people from opposite sides of the world, of faith, of experience, and of expectations. The dramatic intersection of their lives and their journey together is an inspiration to those who have ever felt there was more to life than the world they knew. A young Iraqi woman, an American war correspondent, and a true tale of friendship, faith, and family against the backdrop of war and the collision of cultures This is a story of a very unlikely friendship—between American war correspondent Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak, an Iraqi college girl who won a job as a translator for NBC during the early months of violence in the wake of the American invasion of Iraq. While covering a story together, the two were nearly killed by a bomb, an experience that created a bond between them that led them down a path neither could have imagined. What follows is a story of transformation, as Rafraf—from a devout Muslim family—becomes the target of terrorist threats to kidnap and murder her. Don and his fellow correspondents mobilize to help save her life and suddenly Rafraf finds herself on the receiving end of an offer for safety and a new life in the United States. Dramatically transplanted from the streets of Iraq to the Bible Belt of middle America, Rafraf finds everything that she knew—or thought she knew—about herself, her values, her world, even faith and family, turned upside down. Meanwhile, Don; his wife, Kiki; and their children discover they’ve embarked on an adventure with Rafraf that reshapes their lives. This captivating story inspires us all to join Don and Rafraf in discovering that there is far more to life than the world we know.

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Ladies Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey, cousins to Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I live in constant fear that their positions of being too close to the throne will be their eventual downfall.

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.