While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
Arranged marriage
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Author:Ellis, JanetSummary:Anne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon...
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Author:Miller, Linda LaelSummary:Determined to honor an old promise, an undercover investigator struggles to shield a childhood friend from danger while resisting the pristine allure of the woman she's clearly become. But he may have underestimated the distraction of...
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Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home, and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules. But now her little fib means that...
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Journey deeper into the world of Chicago's most dangerous, alluring crime family in this incendiary installment of the Shadow Riders series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Shadow rider Elie Archambault...
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Chloe Conte retreats to an isolated cottage at Bella Terra, a private vineyard with a violent past, to write her second mystery novel, but is distracted by Eli Di Luca, a mysterious man whose dark secrets put her in great danger.
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Nayna Sharma agreed to an arranged marriage in the hope it would heal the fractures in her beloved family ... only to realize too late that a traditional marriage is her personal nightmare. Panicked, she throws caution to the winds,...
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin meets The Marrying of Chani Kaufman in this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe....
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For fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han, a sweetly funny YA debut about falling in love, family expectations, and being a Renaissance Man. Danyal Jilani doesn't lack confidence. He may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he...
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Sous ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons, la jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le...
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Fraîchement promue vice-conteuse, Ophélie découvre à ses dépens les haines et les complots qui couvent sous les plafonds dorés de la Citacielle. Dans cette situation toujours périlleuse, pourra-t-elle compter sur Thorn, son...
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A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls...
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New York Times bestseller. From "one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot" (The New York Times Book Review), an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-...
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Après deux ans et sept mois à se morfondre sur l'arche d'Anima, Ophélie a décidé d'agir. Sous une fausse identité, Ophélie rejoint Babel, arche cosmopolite et joyau de modernité. Ses talents de liseuse suffiront-...
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"A searing testament to the strength in claiming one's destiny." — The Washington Post. A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young woman's desperate attempt to protect her...
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From fan-favorite Scarlett St. Clair, the bestselling author of the Hades & Persephone series, comes a new fantasy filled with danger, darkness, and insatiable romance. Their union is his revenge. Isolde de Lara considers her...
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Author:Fantaskey, BethSummary:Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting...
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Strong-willed and free spirited, Marjory de Warenne long ago gave her body and soul to the charming and beguiling Guy de Beauchamp. But her family never approved of the pairing. Now on the eve of war--and an arranged marriage to another...
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When an accident forces Henriette to reveal her powerful gift for enchantments to Louis, he asks for her help. For she alone can defeat the dark magician threatening his authority.
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When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it's nothing like she imagined. Newly crowned King Sanyu agrees to take a wife, and his beguiling new queen seems to have the answers...
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