Promised Brides

by Mary Jo Putney, Candace Camp, Julie Tetel

AnthologyHistoricalRomanceShort StoriesThe Wedding of the Century

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About this book

Three unforgettable heroines — THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY by Mary Jo Putney — Sarah Vangelder. Stunningly beautiful, extraordinarily wealthy and sold to the highest bidder for the price of a dukedom. — JESSE'S WIFE by Kristin James — Amy McAlister. The shy rancher's daughter had made one horrible mistake. And she would pay for it -- for the rest of her life. THE HANDFAST by Julie Tetel Anne Clelland. Mistakenly snatched in a whiskey-inspired raid, the young Englishwoman must marry a Scottish clansman for a year and a day.

Themes & subjects

AnthologyHistoricalRomanceShort StoriesThe Wedding of the CenturyFiction

About the authors

Mary Jo Putney

Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York, USA. She obtained degrees in eighteenth-century English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since, single with her cats. After purchasing her first computer for her freelance graphic design business, she decided to wrote her first novel. Her first book sold quickly and was published in 1987, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better. She decided become a full-time writer as soon as possible. She has made all of the national bestseller lists includin…

Candace Camp

23 May 1949

Candace Pauline Camp was born on May 23, 1949 in Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.. The youngest of three children born into a newspaper family -- her mother, Lula Mae (Irons) Camp, had been a reporter and her father, Grady Camp, was the business manager of the Amarillo, Texas, newspaper -- some of Candace's earliest memories are of making up stories which she played out on the floor of their den with whatever objects were handy. She cannot remember a time when she was not interested in creating stories. She began writing down her stories when she was about 10, and from then on writing was her favorite form of relaxation. Explains Candace: "I was always very shy and did not talk much. However, in writ…

Julie Tetel

1950

Julie Tetel Andresen (born 1950) is a prominent American linguistic historiographer and romance novelist. Andresen is a professor at Duke University, where she has taught since 1986. Her primary appointment is in the Department of English. She has secondary appointments in the Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies. She is currently the chair of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics. Andresen was born in Chicago, Illinois and earned her undergraduate degree at Duke in 1972. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1980. Her dissertation was “Linguistic Crossroads of the Eighteenth Century.” Andresen b…