Are you always looking for a certain kind of story, but just don’t know where to find them?
I’ve often come across reader platforms asking for books that are like another book, or a story about a certain profession and/or problem. It’s frustrating if you can’t find a new story to read when you’re really in the mood for – fill in the blank.
So, I’m going to do my best to help you out and provide a reading list with various tropes (see my blog post on what a trope is) so that you, my reader friends, won’t have to search long to find a new read with just the right flavour.
This week’s post, I’ve compiled a list of stories that use the marriage of convenience storyline. This is where characters “must” marry for reasons other than falling in love. I’ve also further broken it down into historical and contemporary stories. Books in both lists can be further broken down into romance, or romantic suspense.
And for your convenience, I’ve added a downloadable PDF of the reading list: GET THE LIST
Historical Marriage of Convenience Stories
- To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander
- A Love Most Worthy by Sandra Ardoin
- The Mistletoe Countess by Pepper Basham
- Rocky Mountain Oasis by Lynette Bonner
- Freedom’s Light by Colleen Coble
- Woman of Sunlight by Mary Connealy
- The Peasant Queen by Ashton Dorrow
- Where the Road Bends by Rachel Fordham
- The Mistress of Tall Acre by Laura Frantz
- A Bride in the Bargain and Bride Most Begrudging by Deanne Gist
- The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
- The Captive Heart by Michelle Griep
- The Bride Next Door by Winnie Griggs
- The Bride Backfire by Kelly Eileen Hake
- Liv & the Preacher by Mary E. Hanks
- The Doctor’s Lady, A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund
- Rose Legacy by Kristin Heitzmann
- My Dear Miss Dupre by Grace Hitchcock
- An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi Ann Hunter
- A Most Inconvenient Marriage by Regina Jennings
- Pretending to Wed by Melissa Jaegers
- A Rose In Winter by Janis Jakes
- Marrying Kate by Kimberly Rae Jordan
- Heart in the Highlands by Heidi Kimball
- Yagos: The Marriage Contract by Kattarin Kirk
- The Painter’s Daughter by Julie Klassen
- The Heiress of Winterwood by Sarah E. Ladd
- In His Eyes by Stepheniah McGee
- Mary by Shannon McNear
- Midnight’s Budding Morrow and Captivating Lady Charlotte by Carolyn Miller
- Love in the Bargain, by Lucette Nel
- Love comes Softly, A Bride for Donnigan by Jeanette Oke
- The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin
- The Princess, Sean Donovan, Donovan’s Daughter, The Rescue by Lori Wick
- Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson
- Short Straw Bride, More Than Words Can Say by Karen Witemeyer
- Until We All Run Free by Heather Wood
- The Indebted Earl by Erica Vetsch
- With This Ring? A collection of novellas by various CF authors
CONTEMPORARY MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE STORIES
- Love in a Fix, Calling Love, and Lost in Love by Leah Atwood
- The Trumpeter’s Forever Promise by B.M. Baker
- The Mistletoe Contract by Jennifer Chastain
- Lonestar Santuary, Lonestar Secrets, & Lonestar Homecoming by Colleen Coble
- A Marriage of Convenience by Debra Lynn Collins
- Poppy’s Proposal by Tara Grace Ericson
- Blessing Bentley and Tempting Tait by Chautona Havig
- The Convenient Groom & Honeysuckle Dreams by Denise Hunter
- Unspoken by Dee Henderson
- Convenient by Sarah Michelle Jones
- Dangerous Beauty by Melissa Koslin
- The Princess by Lori Wick Marry Me by Autumn Macarthur
- The Isaac Project and The Esther Paradigm by Sarah Monzon
- Being Dorothy (In a world longing for home) by Michele Olson
- An Unlikely Proposal and In Search of a Prince by Toni Shiloh
- Show Me a Marriage of Convenience by Alexa Verde
- Sunburst Susan May Warren
Whew! Those are quite the lists. Remember, stop by the blog to check out the newest lists I’ve curated just for you.
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