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The Reluctant Bride
1992
First Published
3.82
Average Rating
299
Number of Pages

Molly Hughes will do anything to save the Pemberton Arms . . . Even marry the man who's trying to steal it away. The last thing Englishman Nicholas St. George wanted was a rundown seaside hotel in America. But when his stepfather Jonathan dies, Nicolas finds out he has inherited more than a ramshackle establishment by the sea: he is now the guardian of the child who calls the Pemberton Arms home. Except she isn’t a child at all. She’s a beautiful young woman of wit and fire who is willing to fight for her home, even if that means tossing her lot in with the enemy from the other side of the ocean: Nicholas!

Avg Rating
3.82
Number of Ratings
45
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Barbara Bretton
Barbara Bretton
Author · 54 books

Barbara Bretton is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of more than 40 books. She currently has over ten million copies in print around the world. Her works have been translated into twelve languages in over twenty countries. Barbara has been featured in articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Romantic Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Herald News, Home News, Somerset Gazette,among others, and has been interviewed by Independent Network News Television, appeared on the Susan Stamberg Show on NPR, and been featured in an interview with Charles Osgood of WCBS, among others. Her awards include both Reviewer's Choice and Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times; Gold and Silver certificates from Affaire de Coeur; the RWA Region 1 Golden Leaf; and several sales awards from Bookrak. Ms. Bretton was included in a recent edition of Contemporary Authors. Barbara loves to spend as much time as possible in Maine with her husband, walking the rocky beaches and dreaming up plots for upcoming books.

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