Stories by Angela Bell, Angela Breidenbach, Lisa Carter, Mary
Connealy, Rebecca Jepson, Amy Lillard, Gina Welborn, Kathleen Y’Barbo,
and Rose Ross Zediker.

Come along on a romantic journey jam-packed with all the angst of marriages founded upon practical choices as well as coercion. Meet nine couples who barely know each other before they find themselves suddenly married—to please family, to stem the tide of gossip, to save the land—and joined for life. But can love grow when duty comes before romance?