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A fake engagement leads to fireworks… When Fox Wilde lands an interview for head chef at the famous Rutland’s Restaurant in Auckland, there’s only one problem… the old-fashioned boss prefers his staff to be married. Put on the spot, Fox mistakenly invents a fiancée. Now, he just has to convince his friend Caitlin to go along with the ruse. Caitlin is happy to help out a friend—especially one she’s had a crush on since she was sixteen. But it entails pretending they’re a couple, which means sharing a room. And that’s never going to end well. Tropes: Fake Fiance, fling, one-...

Whether you are married or single, having great sex or no sex, your sexuality is inseparable from your spirituality. Sadly, most churches are silent on the subject. Dr. Juli Slattery is breaking the silence. In 25 Questions You're Afraid to Ask about Love, Sex, and Intimacy, she tackles the most common and critical questions women ask her about sexuality.

Seven Sexy Sins. One Mr. Sinful. Faith Hillman is in trouble. She’s writing an article on ways to spice up your love life for her popular blog, but she’s hit a major snag—she hasn’t experienced any of the Seven Sexy Sins on her list. Luckily, her brother’s best friend, Rusty Thorne, offers to help with her research. Having had a crush on him since the age of twelve, Faith agrees, on the proviso that he signs a contract keeping their short-term relationship a secret. Her brother once decked him for kissing her on her eighteenth birthday, so Rusty’s happy to concur. While they ...

In How to Get Hitched (And Stay Hitched), author and marriage coach Suzanne Venker claims women need a detox from the bogus cultural narratives they've absorbed about men, sex, marriage, work and family. If you're a woman who wants a successful love life (not just a successful professional life), you're going to need a brand new roadmap. And now you have one.

Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have become a lot more complicated, and men and women are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. To add to the increasing tension, most men and women are also completely unaware that they are actually hardwired to react differently to the stress.

When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.

In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony.

One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission—I'm not happy—changes everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.

When Alice's wealthy (and much coveted) teenage crush, Joe, asks her to marry him, she is prepared to trade in her dream of a cottage filled with children, animals, and home-cooked meals for what he has in mind for her: stilettos, blond highlights, and a diet. She tells herself that she's happy to sacrifice for love, especially when every woman in London would like to be in her shoes.

Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Flouting his oath to wait to have sexual relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he took her virginity on their wedding night.

Preparing to Be a Help Meet contains six sweet love stories written by wives sharing their experiences about how God taught them to be the help meets they are today. Three of the stories are from wives that have been married more than 40 years. Three stories are by new brides who, before marriage, were trained to be the help meet God intended. All the love stories are beautiful and will show you how wonderful it is to walk together in God's light.

There's a misconception that the good guys of the world finish last! I'm here to tell you it is far from the truth. While a lot of nice guys experience a life of being overlooked by the women they desire (which is usually because of their shyness), it's just a phase of life that can be quickly overcome. Generally, this phase occurs between the ages of 20 through 30. It can, and sometimes does, last longer. But with the help of this audiobook, it doesn't need to last a moment longer.

Couples don’t ride off into the sunset after their honeymoon. The truth is that marriage is hard. Maybe you’re in place where you’re feeling that. You might even feel like this is the end.

The New I Do, therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson take a groundbreaking look at the modern shape of marriage to help listeners open their minds to marrying more consciously and creatively. Offering actual models of less-traditional marriages, including everything from a parenting marriage (intended for the sake of raising and nurturing children) to a comfort or safety marriage (where people marry for financial security or companionship), the audiobook covers unique options for couples interested in forging their own paths.

One out of every two modern marriages ends in divorce, and 75 percent of those divorces are initiated by wives. Author Ashton Applewhite is one of these women, having sued for divorce after enduring an unfulfilling 10-year marriage. Cutting Loose is an essential resource for women who want to leave their marriage but fear the consequences. Shattering the media-generated image of the lonely, deprived, and financially strapped divorcee, Applewhite provides a much needed reality check. Cutting Loose introduces 50 women, varying in age, race, class, and predicament, who have thrived after initiating their own divorces.

Your husband learned from an early age to deny his true feelings - and to be silent about his deepest needs. Most men long for greater intimacy with their wives, but they have no idea how to find it. Best-selling author David Murrow breaks the silence, uncovering the central secret of your spouse’s heart. He reveals what every husband since Adam has felt but has been unwilling or unable to say. If you really want to know what’s stored up in your husband’s heart, listen to this audiobook.

Some seasons of life can seem inordinately more difficult than one human should ever have to endure. For Brandi Wilson, this was the year when her husband of more than twenty years—and a megachurch pastor—walked away from her and her family, her church community dissolved, and her dreams and identity were shattered. Yet God transformed this heartbreaking, overwhelming year into an invaluable lesson on the gift of healing. Here Brandi vulnerably and beautifully tells her story of confronting grief and heartache head-on and learning how to grow from the pain.

The Unveiled Wife is a real-life love story, one touching the deep places in a marriage that only God can reach. If you are feeling disappointment or even despair in your marriage, the heart cry of this audiobook is: You are not alone. Join Jennifer to learn how God can remove your own veil and lovingly guide you to a place of spiritual transformation, true intimacy, and lasting joy.

Are there times when the man in your life is a complete mystery to you? How would you like to finally have a clear window into his head? Or, as a man, do you ever end up kicking yourself, not understanding why you behaved in a way that upset your partner, or why it’s so hard for you to just cause less conflict or trouble for your relationship? One of the fastest, easiest ways we can become closer to our partners is by truly understanding where they are coming from. Men, in particular, often find difficulties expressing their needs out loud, or even knowing what they really are.

This book will help you clarify your thinking, process your emotions, and help you make better decisions. If you are ready to design a life you love, this book will help you on your journey. Life teaches us lessons continuously. Do we pay attention and acknowledge what we learn? Do we strive to improve ourselves, and, due to these improvements, are our lives and relationships positive influences for everyone around us? Life is an ongoing process. We should consciously stop sometimes to reflect upon the situations we find ourselves in and the experiences life gives us. Could we have done ...