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The Forced Bride

by Sara Craven

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196 pages2006HarlequinISBN 9780373125975
Arranged marriageFiction

About this book

Young Emily Blake obeys her dying father's wish that she wed family friend Count Rafaele di Salis, in an unconsummated union she expects to end when she comes of age. As she nears 21, however, Rafaele forces consummation on her, she comes to believe she loves him, he announces the same, and they remain married.

Publication Details

Publisher
Harlequin
Published
2006
Pages
196
ISBN
9780373125975
Language
en

About Sara Craven

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.

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