He’s excessively broody, and secretive, and has zero interest in being married to the human embodiment of a sugar cookie. Drowning in debt, she’s facing some serious jail time unless she complies with her wealthy father’s wishes.

Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Still, wherever possible I tried to stay true to the definition above! And since I’m looking at a specific trope I broke each book description into “Who” for the lead characters, and then “Why” to describe the circumstances of their arranged marriage. I’ve deviated from that a bit since, as with most tropes, the arranged marriage plot comes in a wide variety of forms, and some books were just to good to leave off this list. As a result, there’s usually a lot of enemies-to-lovers involved, a plethora of marriage-dodging tactics employed, and plenty of tender emotions mashed to a fine pulp.įor the purpose of this list of arranged marriage books I tried to stick to a pretty specific definition of the arranged marriage as being: a marriage that has been arranged for the hero and heroine by secondary parties (often for financial or political reasons), with or without their consent.

Tangential to the fated mates trope of paranormal romance, and falling under the umbrella of the forced proximity trope (which I have had the pleasure of raving about in a previous post), the arranged marriage trope is designed to bring together a hero and heroine who otherwise would not have said “Boo” to each other while passing on the street. Don’t you just love arranged marriage romance novels? The plot of arranged marriage books is one most romance readers have encountered at least once-more if you love historical romances-and it just never gets old.

The arranged marriage murders book