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Mailbox Mondays:


I got some great books in the mail this past week.

My blog readers may remember I recently read and reviewed Ruth Nordin's 'An Unlikely Place For Love'. Ruth Nordin was kind enough to do an author interview at my blog, and she also graciously sent me two of her other books, The Cold Wife and An Inconvenient Marriage. I'll be reading and reviewing these at my blog and hopefully doing another author interview with Miss Nordin.

First comes love, then comes marriage - right?


Not so for Carrie Allen. When her newly bankrupt father arranges a union with the wealthy but unappealing Justin Monroe - interrupting a beginning courtship with the one she loves - Carrie's understandably upset. But even after telling her new husband they're wrong for each other, he refuses to grant an immediate annulment.


Instead, Justin offers a deal: a month-long trial marriage. As she does everything she can to prove the marriage is doomed, he tries just as hard to win her affection. All of which makes for an uproarious romantic comedy set amid the manners and mores of the late-nineteenth century. Will Carrie melt under the heat of Justin's desire? Or will she always remain The Cold Wife?

At the beginning, we are introduced to Jake Mitchell and Sue Lewis. Jake is the vice president of the bank, and Sue is a customer who is struggling to help save her family's farm which is in danger of being turned over to the bank since her father can't make his loan payments. Since she can't get help at the bank, she turns to her only other option: marriage to any wealthy bachelor she can find. When he realizes that she's ready to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, he decides he can't let her condemn her life to that kind of misery.


So we have the set up for the platonic, business arrangement that is to become their marriage. His father left a will leaving him a large inheritance if he marries a Christian woman for six months. As long as they keep it platonic, there's no reason why they can't get an annulment when the six months is up. After some hillarious misunderstandings, they say "I do" and the countdown to the annulment has begun....

Another book to arrive this past week was:

King Arthur: The Dark Ages of British History. This was sent to me from Paul Samuelson over @ http://www.sourcebooks.com/

In the Dark Ages of Britain, 450 AD, the Roman Empire is falling apart, leaving the British under the rule of the tyrant Vortigern. Fifteen year old Arthur Pendragon, son of Uthr and rightful heir to the throne, is forced to ally himself with his father’s killer to eventually win back what was rightfully his. When a feisty and beautiful Gwenhwyfar pledges herself to Arthur, he is put to the test: he must choose between his kingdom and the woman he loves.




In this groundbreaking first book of the Pendragon’s Banner trilogy, Helen Hollick brings the sometimes shadowy world of legend to gloriously full, glowing life in this inspired union of historical research and creative brilliance.