Counterfeit Bride

Name: Counterfeit Bride
Rating: 3.8 (25 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780373105618

by Unknown Author

3.8

(25 ratings)

187 pages1983Harlequin BooksISBN 9780373105618

Romance Fiction

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Nicola found he was a law unto himself She had agreed to masquerade as his prospective bride to help her young friend escape. She was appalled that arranged marriages still existed. But Luis Alvarado de Montalba was not a man to be crossed. "You forced your way into my life, " he informed her when he discovered the deception, "and now you will remain in it. " While she conceded he was entitled to his anger, it was her life and future he had taken under control. And he simply ignored her protests. Mills & Boon Because the last thing her young friend Teresita wanted was to be forced into a marriage of convenience with the guardian she had not seen for years, Nicola Tarrant agreed to pose as Teresita when the guardian, the formidable Don Luis Alvardo de Montalba, came to claim her. But the plot went sadly awry when Don Luis called her bluff - and to her horror Nicola found herself whisked off to a hacienda somewhere in the heart of Mexico, and forced to marry him. And there was no way she could escape...

Publication Details

Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1983
Pages: 187
ISBN: 9780373105618

About Unknown Author

Anne Bushell was born in South Devon, England on October 1938, just before World War II and grew up in a house crammed with books. She was always a voracious reader, some of her all-time favorite books were: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and "The Code of the Woosters" by P. G. Wodehouse. She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel "Garden of Dreams" accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Divorced twice, Annie lived in Somerset, England, where she shared her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. When not writing, she enjoyed very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson. Sara Craven died in November 2017.