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|title=The Reluctant Bride

|sort=Reluctant Bride, The

|publisher=Choc Lit

|date=September 2013

|website=http://beverleyoakley.com/Beverley_Oakley/Welcome.html

|summary=A mismatched couple enter into a marriage of convenience, but deeply buried secrets threaten to destroy any chance of romance.

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Scarred soldier Major Angus McCartney cuts a lonely figure as he rides toward Micklen House bearing tragic news. He knows that his presence will be unwelcome and that the report he must deliver will devastate the entire household, especially the beautiful, unobtainable daughter of the family whom he has secretly been in love with for many years. Surely she will forever associate him with the bombshell that brought her world crashing down. There seems no way that she could ever love him the way that he loves her.