Some Books about Suitors - Happy Suitors Reading!

For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been betrothed since childhood But Colton was too proud to submit to a future not of his own choosing, and he fled his ancestral home for a life of adventure as a British army officer.

Years later, the girl Colton spurned has blossomed into an uncommon beauty desired by every eligible bachelor in the land -- except the man she desires, the decorated hero who has finally returned home. As arrogant and seductive as ever, Colton agrees to court Lady Adriana for ninety days to prove that love cannot be forced, after which time he will be free. But this stunning, spirited woman is far different from the young chit he left behind. And a heroic heart, once tightly closed, is now susceptible to Adriana's charm and sensuality -- even as dark secrets and a rival's treachery threaten to steal her from Colton's arms forever.

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This sequel to "The Modern Gentleman offers essential advice and instills savoir faire for avowed bachelors, serial monogamists, and husbands-to-be..
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Summoned by his godfather to London, Archibald Brainridge is made an offer he cannot refuse. Provided he eschews the gaming tables and gets himself a respectable wife, the Earl of Chandos will make him his heir. Though taken aback by the proposal, Archie rallies. Back at Brainridge Hall, he sets off to propose to Miss Isabella Cox, his childhood playmate. En route to Bella's desirous of a bit of Dutch courage before popping the question he drops in at the local pub. Staring down at her suitor, swaying unsteadily at her feet, Isabella is tempted to box Archie's ears. How dare he make her an offer while foxed! Even if he were sober, she'll never marry Archie, despite the secret tendre she harbors. Isabella is determined to never marry a gamester. But, ever persistent, Archie follows her to Town. Wherever she goes, he shows up to woo her. Only to concede he's met his match. He'll never win her hand not unless he reforms and risks his heart on the greatest gamble of all love! Publisher Note: Previously released elsewhere, now revised and expanded..
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A fresh, frenzied, fantastical re-imagining of The Odyssey-and the debut of a major new literary talent

Very loosely based on The Odyssey, The Suitors is a wildly inventive, skillfully crafted little novel. Focusing less on the Odysseus character (herein named Payne) than on the Penelope character (now Penny), it follows the eyebrow-raising exploits of Penny's much-maligned, ill-fated suitors. While Payne gallivants around, waging war and otherwise taking his time on the voyage home, Penny finds herself surrounded by a motley crew of ne'er-dowells eager for nothing but her attention. She, however, cannot be bothered with anything but her memories of Payne. That is, until the mysterious arrival of a man whose origins no one on the scene can quite divine. When Penny starts taking a shine to him, the tenuous calm on the home front quickly starts to unravel.

Full of ideas but with never a dull moment, The Suitors heralds the debut of an exciting new literary voice..
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On the Isle of Man, Lucy Parnell entrusts the secret of a very personal quest to the handsome Roderick Kempthorne But she also risks exposing another secret--the love in her heart....

"A writer not to be missed!"--Mary Balogh

A rising star of romance, Nancy Butler is the 1998 Golden Leaf Award winner for Best First Novel.
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In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds that Arroyo was simply too ugly.

In the courtrooms of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, children battled parents in order to fulfill their romantic desires and marry the mate of their choice. Parents and guardians also struggled for custody of young children, which some did out of love while others were greedy for child labor. In courtrooms and elsewhere, women challenged their traditional status as social and intellectual inferiors. Though all these struggles existed in earlier times, the nineteenth century injected a new dynamic into such conflicts: Argentina's revolution against Spain and the subsequent attempts by political and intellectual leaders to craft a new nation out of the vestiges of Spanish colonialism.

The family, many leaders recognized, was the vital building block of the nation. Hence, matters of the heart and hearth intertwined with matters of the state. Examining family conflicts and the political and legal backdrop of those cases reveals strong continuities in attitudes about gender and family. At the same time, ideological influences of the revolutionary movement combined with the practical needs of nation building to create new freedoms and new identities for women and children over the course of the nineteenth century. The Case of the Ugly Suitor brings these family and national struggles to life, many times in the words of the participants themselves. Jeffrey M. Shumway is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University..
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program..
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In The Penultimate Suitor Mary Leader strips away comfortable layers of poetic self-protection to arrive at a position of acute emotional self-conflagration. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art. Learning to love, learning to make art, trying to make beauty, trying to be a beauty -- all these efforts call for passionate explorations in the schools of art and love..
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