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Wives Wanted! #3
A Scandalous Marriage
Wanted: One Wife
Price: Two Million Dollars
Self-made and every inch a bachelor, Sydney entrepreneur Mike Stone has one month to get married -- or he'll lose a business deal worth billions! He's confident he can find a bride for the right price....
Natalie Fairlane, owner of the Wives Wanted dating agency, is appalled by her new client's proposition! But the fee Mike is willing to pay is very tempting. Plus, offering herself up for the job has nothing to do with how wickedly sexy she finds him.... No, nothing at all!
WIVES WANTED
When a wealthy man wants a wife, he doesn't always follow the rules!
Price: Two Million Dollars
Self-made and every inch a bachelor, Sydney entrepreneur Mike Stone has one month to get married -- or he'll lose a business deal worth billions! He's confident he can find a bride for the right price....
Natalie Fairlane, owner of the Wives Wanted dating agency, is appalled by her new client's proposition! But the fee Mike is willing to pay is very tempting. Plus, offering herself up for the job has nothing to do with how wickedly sexy she finds him.... No, nothing at all!
WIVES WANTED
When a wealthy man wants a wife, he doesn't always follow the rules!
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
About the author
Miranda Lee
823 books239 followersMaureen Mary was born on 1945 at Port Macquarie, a popular seaside town on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, and is the youngest of four children. Her sister was the novelist Wendy Brennan (Emma Darcy). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. When Miranda was ten, her father was transferred to Gosford, another coastal town in the countryside, much closer to Sydney. After leaving her convent school, she briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. Following this, she attempted greyhound training, as well as horse and goat breeding, but was left dissatisfied.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
Miranda yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! It took a decade of trial and error before her first romance, After the Affair, was accepted and published. At that time, Miranda, her husband Tony, and her three daughters had moved back to the Central Coast, where they could enjoy the sun and the surf lifestyle once again. Not long into her writing career, Miranda committed herself to writing a six-book series entitled, The Hearts of Fire, with a deadline of just nine short months. Bravely, her husband left his executive position to stay home and support Miranda’s writing career. He learned to cook and to clean, two invaluable household skills. Numerous successful stories followed, each embodying Miranda’s trademark style: pacy and sexy rhythms; passionate, real-life characters; and enduring, memorable story lines. She has one credo when writing romances: Don’t bore the reader! Millions of fans world-wide agree she never does.
Miranda was the sister of the late author, Emma Darcy.
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January 8, 2021
Business arrangement turns to love,
March 1, 2012
An HP with a non-virgin, smart, brashy heroine who only manages to irritate me every other chapter? Sold!
June 16, 2024
What a great story this was. However I couldn’t stand the going back-and-forth and how mean Mike was. He was giving me major whiplash LOL. But I do love how he realised how he was and what he needed in his life.
August 25, 2012
A Scandalous Marriage is the third in the Wives Wanted! series by Australian author Miranda Lee. Natalie Fairlaine runs a high-class introduction agency but is leery of any attachment herself after her last deceptive man. But her parents are in financial strife, and when software entrepreneur Mike Stone wants a temporary wife for business reasons, she is tempted. After all, he is insisting there will be no sex involved, she will net a cool two million if all goes to plan and be freed from obligation by a convenient divorce. There is one slight wrinkle in the plan: Mike is wickedly sexy and Natalie soon realises that he is attracted to her too. It’s a novel idea for a romance plot, even if the outcome is a bit predictable. The filling in of Mike’s backstory is a bit clumsy and some of the dialogue is a bit wooden, but the conversation that Mike has with his prospective business partner is priceless. Characters from the two previous novels in the series also appear. Quite enjoyable.
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May 16, 2016خطوات خارج الزمن - ميرندا لي
مطلوب زوجة الثمن مليونا دولار
اكتشف الثري الأسترالي الأعزب مايك ستون أن لديه شهرا واحد فقط عليه أن يتزوج فيه وإلا خسر اتفاقية بمليارات الدولارات . ولكنه على ثقة بأن أمواله تستطيع أن تشتري له عروسا توافق على زواج شكلي .
صدم هذا الطلب ناتالي فير لين صاحبة وكالة " مطلوب زوجات " ... ولكن عرض مايك كان مغريا للغاية لدرجة أنها قدمت نفسها لشغل منصب الزوجة المؤقتة لديه ..
أقنعت ناتالي نفسها أنها وافقت لأنها بحاجة فقط , ولا علاقة للأمر بالعواطف مطلقا . فهل هذا صحيح وماذا ستختار حين يحين موعد القرار " هو أو المال ".
June 10, 2021
La verdad esperaba más de la historia de Mike y Natalie pero aún así me resultó entretenido el libro.
March 19, 2023
An Excellent Trilogy
It's hard to find a trilogy where the characters truly care about each other and they show it throughout the books. I really liked this series and think others would too. There's a lot of emotions in them too. I couldn't wait to read all three in a weekend.
It's hard to find a trilogy where the characters truly care about each other and they show it throughout the books. I really liked this series and think others would too. There's a lot of emotions in them too. I couldn't wait to read all three in a weekend.
August 27, 2024
Mike Stone is completely and totally sexist, it was tremendously off-putting. Natalie was a strong and wonderfully independent woman and why she put up with Mike is beyond me.
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