At the start of Jennifer Probst’s “The Marriage Bargain” (2012), bookstore owner Alexa McKenzie needs money to save her business. Her best friend’s older brother, Nick Ryan, is more than happy to give her a hand in exchange for one simple thing: marriage.
Bella Andre’s “I Love How You Love Me” (2014) pairs another exceedingly wealthy, successful hero with a down-on-her-luck heroine. When single mom and freelance journalist Grace Adrian is assigned to write a piece on recluse Dylan Sullivan, sparks fly.
In Lisa Kleypas’s “Love in the Afternoon” (2010), Capt. Christopher Phelan begins trading letters with his fiance, discovering that she is as brilliant and kind as she is beautiful. But his correspondent is actually Beatrix Hathaway, the animal-loving oddity he barely remembers.
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