The Bride Price
QuenbyOlson
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  • Reads 578,316
  • Votes 33,622
  • Parts 24
  • Time 6h 54m
QuenbyOlson
Complete, First published Mar 07, 2016
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To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry.

Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss.  

Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.
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With love Emma

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Meet Emma Zennor, a down to earth country girl who finds happiness in small things. Emma never dreamed of finding a love match, but she didn't expect to get married to a man who called her Miss. Zennor like they didn't take wedding vows. She also didn't expect to fall in love with her husband. It should have been really simple but it was not. Meet Lord Nicholas Advent, duke of Watford. Nicholas never wanted to remarry after his wife's death. But he didn't expect to get married to Emma Zennor, a beautiful young lady half his age and fall in love with her. But he could never be her husband, didn't he already prove he made a terrible husband.

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