![]() ![]() Why: Aiden is facing deportation back to Canada, and if he wants escape a one way ticket home he needs an American wife, and fast. Aiden Graves, said most annoying defensive end, turns up at her door begging her to come back because he needs a favor. She no longer has to play assistant and housekeeper to the most annoying defensive end in the Northern Football Organization. Who: Vanessa Mazur has just ditched the worst job ever. ![]() The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata ![]() The quickest way back to his parents’ good graces? Get married to blue-blooded, proper, presentable Isabella. He has embarrassed his family, and if he doesn’t get his royal backside back on track he’s going to be passed over for the throne. Why: Magnus’s latest scandal is one scandal too many. Princess Isabella of Liechtenstein thinks Magnus is a womanizing jerk with an ego the size of his country. Who: Prince Magnus of Norway would rather be king of extreme sports and pretty women than face up to his responsibilities as crown prince. Neither of them can trust the other, but the marriage must stand. Now that her husband is dead, tradition in Omar’s kingdom dictates that she becomes his bride. Why: India’s marriage is crucial to saving her kingdom from economic disaster. Sheikh Omar El Dansuri doesn’t want a crown, or a wife, and, fun fact, it’s entirely possible his new fiancée killed his brother in the first place. Who: India Saene, Princess of Bagumi, wakes from a two week coma to find that her new husband has died in a tragic accident during their honeymoon, and she’s “inherited” his younger brother. How has he tangled Alex up in this arrangement? *insert shrug emoji here* Guess we’ll find out! His Inherited Princess by Empi Baryeh Why: Daisy’s father has issued an ultimatum, Daisy can either go to jail or she can marry Alex, and stay married to him for six months in order to receive her trust fund. He’s excessively broody, and secretive, and has zero interest in being married to the human embodiment of a sugar cookie. Drowning in debt, she’s facing some serious jail time unless she complies with her wealthy father’s wishes. Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Still, wherever possible I tried to stay true to the definition above! And since I’m looking at a specific trope I broke each book description into “Who” for the lead characters, and then “Why” to describe the circumstances of their arranged marriage. I’ve deviated from that a bit since, as with most tropes, the arranged marriage plot comes in a wide variety of forms, and some books were just to good to leave off this list. ![]() As a result, there’s usually a lot of enemies-to-lovers involved, a plethora of marriage-dodging tactics employed, and plenty of tender emotions mashed to a fine pulp.įor the purpose of this list of arranged marriage books I tried to stick to a pretty specific definition of the arranged marriage as being: a marriage that has been arranged for the hero and heroine by secondary parties (often for financial or political reasons), with or without their consent. Tangential to the fated mates trope of paranormal romance, and falling under the umbrella of the forced proximity trope (which I have had the pleasure of raving about in a previous post), the arranged marriage trope is designed to bring together a hero and heroine who otherwise would not have said “Boo” to each other while passing on the street. Don’t you just love arranged marriage romance novels? The plot of arranged marriage books is one most romance readers have encountered at least once-more if you love historical romances-and it just never gets old. ![]()
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