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I'm trying to find this book I've read not long ago, it an old book set in 80s maybe about a young English woman who befriends a man who takes to visit (maybe) his house and there she meets his older brother and of course falls in love with him but he thinks she's obviously a gold digger so he courts her to save his brother and gets her to marry him but doesn't consummate the wedding and very indifferent to her he's not even attracted to her. Then the next morning she asks him at the breakfast table why he married her and i think he tells her everything which breaks her hear.
I don't know why but I really want to read it again!


Is is Dishonourable Proposal by Jacqueline Baird?


1) Hero and Heroine used to be together. But they broke off when Heroine mom or dad died and Heroine was inconsolable and shuts herself from the hero despite hero trying his best to console her.
They broke off and they met again while heroine was working in his company (forgot if it was takeover or something) and was shocked that he have a child because she did not tell him.
I remember that the company had a day care center and heroine spent her lunch hour checking on her kid and hero was looking and checking the kids out trying to identify his child.
2) I read this book around 1996 so have feeling it's publish in that era. The hero hold a dual citizenship. He's based in the states but he's either from the mediterranean or south american. He's wealthy and a professional baseball player. Heroine is a shy lady and an aspiring writer. They met while the Heroine got stranded and stumble on his cabin. They got married because she pregnant during their one night together. Heroine is constantly second guessing if they did the right thing in getting married because they're both polar opposites.
3) Heroine loves the hero younger brother but ended up marrying the hero. While married the heroine still does not like the hero. She starts to have feeling for him when she prepare a special dinner and waited for him but he ended up being late because there was storm outside and the car either break down or block by a tree and he had to walk to his home because he knew the heroine would be worried.
Thanks in advance for helping.

It might be Comparative Strangers by Sara Craven.

1) Hero and Heroine used to be together. But they broke off when Heroine mom or dad died and Heroine was inconsolable and shuts ..."
1. maybe The Ranieri Bride I'm not sure about the parents but the heroine does have a child in day care and the hero takes over the business. He sees child in the foyer and sends his bodyguard to the daycare to make sure the heroine doesn't try to run.

Maybe Substitute Bride
or
Love Twin

Thanks alot it is substitute bride. I thought it was a harlequin novel. Thank you

1. The h’s father owned mon..."
I think the 3rd book maybe Bought: The Greek's Innocent Virgin by Sarah Morgan


Maybe Summer's Witness I think it's 80's though.

Possibly Landslide Victory by Barbara Boswell (also 1980s)


Could be Sara Craven's Marriage at a Distance (the father-in-law's death starts the current timeline)

It's the one. Thank you so much!!!!!!!


I've somehow managed to conflate this scene with the one in The Kouvaris Marriage where the hero walks out on his fainting wife to go to the OW, so any of the conditions below may or may not apply to the book I'm looking for:
1. they might be married.
2. he might be Greek or Italian (*eyeroll* I know. In HPlandia, that's like saying "I'm looking for the yellow minion in blue overalls.")
3. she might be pregnant
4. he might be going to see an OW
Any ideas?

Oh, I hope someone knows!


Gold Ring of Betrayal
by Michelle Reid has a scene where heroine passes out and he leaves her there.

It turned out to be The Midnight Sun. Thank you, Amber!

@RomLibrary - that wasn't it, but it was a wonderful excuse to re-read Gold Ring of Betrayal. Thank you for the suggestion!

@RomLibrary - that wasn't i..."
Will do


I think this is Phantom Marriage by Penny Jordan

h´s cousin, the h has the H´s child but he doesn´t know. The cousin is dead now. that´s all that I can remerber. Help me, please.

h´s cousin, the h has the H´s child but he doesn´t know. The cousin is dead now. that´s all that I can remerber. Help me, please."
Possibly Smoke in the Wind by Robyn Donald

h´s cousin, the h has the H´s child but he doesn´t know. The cousin is dead now. that´s all that I can remerber. Help m..."
Thanks, but it isn´t that one.

Hero is either polish or Eastern European a tycoon of sorts widowed - wife died from cancer she has double mastectomy. It was endearing story hope I can find it. The heroine is young girl working in his office.
Thank you


Yesterday's Husband by Angela Devine?

Yesterday's Husband Anglea Devine

Hero is either polish or Eastern European a tycoon of sorts widowed - wife died from cancer she has double mastectomy. It was endearing s..."
Diana Palmer has two (that I know of) that have this theme:
Once In Paris and Diamond Girl.
The first book has a French hero and the second book is an office scenario. Hope that helps!
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Thanks a lot; will do