Bound By Marriage

By Nalini Singh

How else to describe the pact Jessica Randall had made with wealthy New Zealand rancher Gabe Dumont? In exchange for marriage and an heir, he would save her family property. The agreement was calculating, completely devoid of any tenderness, just like the man himself.

Their relationship was supposed to be a simple arrangement. Instead, it was fraught with secrets and mistrust, jealousy and ultimatums—emotions that wouldn't allow her to maintain the distance she needed. Worse, the sizzling attraction between them made this marriage of convenience decidedly inconvenient.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harlequin Desire
• Release date: Feb 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781552548646

Nalini Singh

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nalini Singh loves writing paranormal romances. Currently working on two ongoing series, she also has a passion for travel and has been to places as far afield as Tahiti,Japan, Ireland and Scotland. She makes her home in beautiful New Zealand. To find out more about Nalini's books, please visit her website, www.nalinisingh.com.

Reviews for Bound By Marriage

[melaquarius · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

bad veryba agree100% with bookwormlz

[amandamay83 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I finished this, but I can't say I liked it. The author lost me in the first chapter. The heroine is a virgin, but has earth-shattering, multiple orgasms on her wedding night? With a man she hates? Come on. I know romances aren't based in reality, but how far-fetched can you get?

As others have said, Jess is a pushover and Gabe is utterly unlikeable. I could not make myself believe that these two were falling in love.

The premise of the story had much promise, but author all together failed to carry through.

[cranberrytarts · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I know I read this before but I didn't remember much of the story. It's a rather dark novel. Gabe is a hard man. He's cold and cruel through most of the story. That can work for me on occasion. It did and didn't in this case. While I didn't hate him - or the story - it isn't a favorite.

[bookwormliz · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Jessica Randall made a promise to her father on his deathbed that she would take care of the family estate. Enter Game Dumont, a neighboring rancher nine years her senior who will buy her family property, thus saving it from the greedy land developers, but on one condition: she has to marry the son of a witch and produce an heir. To complicate matters further, her BFF--and long-time crush--Damon Hart has recently walked out on his very pregnant (and very annoying) wife, Kayla, having decided he'd rather be with Jessica instead.The one thing that bothered me most about the book was the whole "blackmailed bride" routine. It may be a tried-and-true category romance favorite, but it's also the kind of plot device that makes reading a book hard, because everyone looks like an extra from Dallas. And maybe it's just me, but nothing ruins a perfectly good book quite like a sudden and irrepressible mental image of Patrick Duffy in the nude.Highly inappropriate sexual fantasies aside, Singh's style was well-balanced, providing just enough direction to move the story along without slowing down the pace with unnecessary passages of mindless narrative.