Books like “The Bride”

What to read after “The Bride” by Julie Garwood: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare · 2015
Same genre: “Historical romance”
Shy Maddie Gracechurch invents a soldier suitor to escape the London season and writes to him for years. Then the real Captain Logan MacKenzie appears, demanding the bride he never knew he had. To keep her home, they marry as strangers, and the arrangement slowly becomes something more.
2
The Co-op
Tarah DeWitt · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Forced Proximity”
LaRynn and Deacon married young, divorced, and hoped never to see each other again. When they inherit a crumbling building that must be renovated before it can be sold, they are stuck working side by side and confronting why they failed the first time.
3
A Lady's Code of Misconduct
Meredith Duran · 2017
Same genre: “Historical romance”
Forced by her family, Jane Mason weds the cold politician Crispin Burke to secure her inheritance. After a violent attack he wakes with no memory of who he was, and Jane must guard a stranger who may be gentler than the man she married while his enemies close in.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata · 2016
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Forced Proximity”
Vanessa spends years as the assistant to Aiden Graves, a silent, demanding football star, and finally quits. He then turns up at her door to ask her back and follows it with a bigger request: a marriage of convenience that helps his immigration case. The practical bargain and the time it forces them to spend together wear down his reserve.
5
Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase · 1995
Shared in the plot: battle, marriage
Jessica Trent comes to Paris to drag her foolish brother away from Sebastian Ballister, the Marquess of Dain, a notorious rake. Their battle of wills ends in a scandal, a duel and a marriage neither wanted, and two proud, guarded people slowly learn to trust each other.
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From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
Jasmine's pairs figure-skating career is nearly over when her former partner leaves. The only skater willing to take her on is Ivan Lukov, her longtime rival, and she has no choice but to accept. Months of gruelling shared training force them past years of resentment and into reluctant trust.
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Book Lovers
Emily Henry · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
Literary agent Nora is the cold city professional that small-town romance novels leave behind, and editor Charlie is her sharp-tongued rival in the same business. When her sister drags her to a North Carolina town for the summer, Charlie turns out to be there too, and their sparring slowly becomes something neither expected.
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Katherine
Anya Seton · 1954
Similar setting: “Medieval Setting”
- Medieval Setting
- Slow Burn
In fourteenth-century England, Katherine Swynford becomes a lady-in-waiting and falls in love with John of Gaunt, a royal duke bound by marriage and politics. Their long, often forbidden attachment survives plague, war and the disapproval of a court that cannot forgive a scandal.
9
The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Forced Proximity”
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
10
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
After food poisoning strikes at her twin sister's wedding, unlucky Olive takes her sister's place on a free Hawaiian honeymoon, but her sworn enemy Ethan has to come too. Stranded together and posing as newlyweds to keep the perks, the two bicker their way toward something neither expected.
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Radiance
Grace Draven · 2015
Shared in the plot: respect, marriage
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Idris and Brishen agree to a political marriage neither wants. To her people he is a monstrous creature; to his, she is ugly and fragile. They resolve to be friends and nothing more. Living together in a foreign court, their respect and affection grow into a love that surprises them both.
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The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Scarred and bitter, the Duke of Ashbury needs an heir, so he offers a plain marriage of convenience to Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress. She accepts on her own conditions. Inside his forbidding house, two wary strangers slowly discover warmth, trust and unexpected love.