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    The Five-Minute Marriage

    By Joan Aiken

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    About this ebook

    First comes marriage.

    Then comes love.

    Then things start to get really complicated.

    Desperate to help her ailing mother, Delphie Carteret agrees to a sham wedding ceremony to her cousin, Gareth. Her mother will be guaranteed annuity for life, and Gareth's obligation to marry before his sick uncle passes is fulfilled. The plan is perfect.

    But perfect plans usually go awry. Not only is the marriage ceremony valid, but Gareth's dying uncle makes a miraculous recovery. An imposter is threatening Delphie's identity and her life, and the whole family is on the brink of scandal.

    As Gareth and Delphie try to mastermind a way out of this mess, they begin to discover that what's between them may be surprisingly real…

    Praise for Joan Aiken:

    "Ingenious...a country-dance in high style, twirled to the tune of a proven virtuoso." —Kirkus Reviews for The Five-Minute Marriage

    "Delightful and humorous." —Historical Novels Review for Eliza's Daughter

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781492641254
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    Joan Aiken

    <P>Joan Aiken, daughter of the American writer Conrad Aiken, was born in Rye, Sussex, England, and has written more than sixty books for children, including <I>The Wolves of Willoughby Chase</I>.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book a LOT. I absolutely grieve it's ending!
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      Amazingly bad. It’s like a bad horror movie, yikes .
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      Sweet jesus this book blowed dog chunks it was that bad skipped most of it just to say I sort of finished it. Good grief they never got to the point. Just a total disaster. I don't recommend this book at all .
    • 1/5
      The writing is so bad, I couldn’t get past the first few chapters. Worst delivery of dialog ever!!

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