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He was no Prince Charming [Marriage had never been a priority for Trey Brannigan. The Triple B Dude Ranch always came first–until he found himself distracted by a certain guest of the female variety. But why was the obvious beauty hiding her good looks beneath those frumpy clothes and glasses?

For waitress Jane Dawson happily-ever-afters only happen in fairy tales.... So when she approaches I sexy millionaire Chase Ryder she's thrilled he'll sponsor her charity. Of course, there's no chance Chase will be interested in a girl like her!

Cinderella Brides: These women are living out their very own fairy tales... but will they live happily ever after? "SCHEDULE A WEDDING... AND FIND ME A WIFE!"

While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries—careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce—romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood. In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: "Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship, and race. Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both, echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so popular.

For the sake of the baby... Maura Chambers needed help with her unborn baby. Doug Connelly wanted to make up for a friend’s bad judgment. Not the best reasons for marriage, but enough to make Maura and Doug say ‘I do.’ It was to be a marriage of convenience, to get Maura through a difficult time. But how, then, could she explain the hungry look in Doug’s amber eyes, the longing she felt during their nights together? The handsome doctor’s hands made her feel nothing likea plain Jane nurse but rather like a wanton, wanted woman. Everything was within reach — a husband, a family. Until she discovered Doug’s little secret...

Robert P. Irvine's guide to Jane Austen and her work is essential reading for students of English Literature. It is suitable both for students at introductory level, as extended reading, or for those beginning a detailed study of Austen.