Books like The Bride Hunt by Margo Maguire

A romance filled with betrayal, love, and the mysterious old abbey of Ravenscar.

Duke Gabriel Devine invites society’s most eligible ladies to a grand ball, hoping to find a bride for his younger brother while he pursues pleasure. Madelyn Haywood, determined to reject the family’s plans, challenges her brother’s reputation and the court’s expectations.

Lady Amelia Patton’s sheltered life unravels when she becomes the centre of a scandalous affair with Alexander St. James, the son of her father’s enemy.

Sir Alan of Strode marries the widow Honor to honor a dying friend's wish. With a baby on the way and a rival suitor, Alan must decide if love or duty should guide his heart.

Elena Ravenscliffe, a young English lady, is forced into a harem in Constantinople and into the arms of a wealthy man she has never been able to forget.

Private‑detective contractor Connor Storm becomes a ranching husband when he marries the elusive heiress Anna Barton, only to have her flee with their baby. Now he must track her down and bring her home, amid passion and danger on the Golden Spurs ranch.

A Knight With A Dark Soul Sir Hugh Dryden undertook his quest for a bride with a guarded heart. But two years of captivity had deadened his desire for any woman. So why, then, did the sight of a mere country girl in distress stir such tenderness in him? And why did simply carrying her from danger set his pulse pounding? Without a proper dowry, no gentleman would ask to marry Sian Tudor. Most made less respectable offers -- excepting the knight who'd rescued her from certain death. The man was strong and dangerous looking -- and she'd had the most unfamiliar longing to touch him. But what sense were flights of fancy when he was surely bound for battle -- and Sian about to be banished to a nunnery... ?

"Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized; paradoxically they represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics."--BOOK JACKET.

Two men caught between dangerous temptations in medieval England and forbidden love stories in a high-stakes adventure.

"This season, all eyes are on biddable, well-connected Lady Belle. And for ambitious Benjamin Lovell, she's the perfect candidate for a convenient marriage. First, though, he must contend with her fiercely protective sister, Lady Amelia Summoner. Amy is determined that only the right man will win her sister, and rakish Benjamin is certainly not that. Every move he makes, she'll be one step ahead! Until the games get out of hand...and Amy realizes she's broken her own rules and fallen for Ben herself!"-- Page [4] of cover.