Books like The Convenient Marriage
To save her beautiful elder sister from a loveless match, seventeen-year-old Horatia Winwood, who stammers and has heavy eyebrows, offers to marry the wealthy Earl of Rule herself, and he is amused enough to accept.
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet, the witty second of five unmarried sisters, and Mr Darcy, a proud and wealthy gentleman, misjudge each other badly, and only slowly learn how wrong they both were.
Emma
A brilliant, meddling young woman convinced she can arrange everyone's love life discovers she's been wrong about her own heart all along.
A Rogue by Any Other Name
Ten years after losing his estate in a card game, Michael Lawler, Marquess of Bourne, owner of London's most exclusive gaming hell, learns that the land has become part of the dowry of Lady Penelope Marbury, and he means to marry her to get it back.
Mine Till Midnight
When her brother Leo unexpectedly inherits a title and a crumbling estate, Amelia Hathaway, the practical eldest sister of an unconventional family, has to drag him out of London's gaming hells, and Cam Rohan, the half-Roma manager of a gentlemen's club, offers his help.
Devil in Winter
Shy Evangeline Jenner, desperate to escape the relatives who mean to seize her inheritance, proposes a marriage of convenience to Sebastian, Viscount St. Vincent, London's most notorious rake, who needs her money as much as she needs his name.
The Duke and I
In Regency London, Daphne Bridgerton, eldest daughter of a large and loving family, and Simon Basset, the new Duke of Hastings, who has sworn never to marry, pretend to court so he can escape the matchmaking mothers and she can attract better suitors.
The Bride
Jamie, youngest daughter of an English baron, is ordered by the king to marry Alec Kincaid, a Highland laird with a fearsome reputation, and is carried north to a clan that does not want an Englishwoman as its lady.
The Duchess Deal
Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, storms the Duke of Ashbury's house to collect payment for a wedding gown his jilting fiancée never paid for, and the duke, scarred at Waterloo and in need of an heir, proposes a marriage of convenience.
Lord of Scoundrels
Jessica Trent comes to Paris to pull her brother out of the debauched circle of Lord Dain, a marquess convinced no respectable woman could want him, and their first meeting sets off a scandal and a duel of wits.
Bridget Jones's Diary
A year in the diary of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, torn between her charming, caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister her mother keeps pushing at her.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
In an English village, Major Ernest Pettigrew, a retired, widowed stickler for tradition, strikes up a friendship with Mrs Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani widow who runs the village shop, to the dismay of his family and neighbours.
Boyfriend Material
Luc O'Donnell, the tabloid-hounded son of two rock stars, needs to look respectable to keep his job at a dung beetle charity, so he fakes a relationship with Oliver Blackwood, a starchy barrister.