Can true love result from a business deal?
Jonathan Kennebrae is furious when his grandfather informs him that his future has been decided. He will marry Melissa Brooke or lose his inheritance.
Melissa, too, is devastated when her parents make their announcement. As little more than a bargaining chip in her father’s business maneuvers, she feels her secure world slipping away.
Can Jonathan and Melissa find a way out of this loveless marriage, or must they find a way forward together?
Can true love result from a business deal?
Jonathan Kennebrae is furious when his grandfather informs him that his future has been decided. He will marry Melissa Brooke or lose his inheritance. Jonathan has invested years of his life in Kennabrae Shipping, but heaven help him if Grandfather decides to take it all away for this.
Melissa, too, is devastated when her parents make their announcement. As little more than a bargaining chip in her father’s business maneuvers, she feels her secure world slipping away. Engaged to marry a man she has never met—someone “considerably older” than herself? What have her parents done?
Can Jonathan and Melissa find a way out of this loveless marriage, or must they find a way forward together?
“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” Proverbs 21:1
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A STELLAR VOICE IN CHRISTIAN ROMANCE!!!!!,
By Patti Lacy "Contemporary Christian women's fi... (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bartered Bride (Kennebrae Brides Series #1) (Heartsong Presents #875) (Mass Market Paperback)
Oh, I LOVE the worlds of the rich and famous...love to read about them, anyway. They're so mixed up! So conflicted by all that opulent wealth. And oh, the stories they tell...
Being rich doesn't fit Jonathan Kennebrae, heir to his grandfather's shipping fortune, as well as his custom suits. His fortune threatens to suffocate when an ultimatum comes: marry Melissa Brooke...or else. The same story tune's being sung along Millionaires' Row in an equally opulent mansion, owned by an even wealthier man, Lawrence Brooke. In the name of controlling Duluth Harbor, Melissa Brooke is shoved toward Jonathan. When Melissa and Jonathan finally meet, to the tune of the "tortured nocturnes" Melissa adeptly plays, the rich young couple, to their astonishment, hears the rhythms of love. Then Melissa's secret life creeps into the safe harbor of a budding engagement. Grandfather Abraham's wily ways imperil the smooth-sailing romance. With wonderfully descriptive writing and a poignant spiritual thread, Vetsch weaves nautical adventures and the historical struggles of the suffrage movement into "The Bartered Bride." Readers, get your sailors' hats. Meet one of the most talented Christian romance writers this side of the Atlantic. Ahoy there! Don't wait ANOTHER moment. Step aboard Erica Vetsch's fan ship NOW!
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I loved this book,
This review is from: The Bartered Bride (Kennebrae Brides Series #1) (Heartsong Presents #875) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is possibly the best short romance I've ever read. Erica Vetsch packed so much into this little romance novel. She captured the storm at sea, the life in a port city, the times and all of that makes for this rich back ground while in the foreground, two people fall in love against all odds.
Beautifully done.
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