The Stolen Marriage
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Diane Chamberlain
Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent.One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello’s life is changed forever. It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns to the baby’s father for help and agrees to marry him, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina. Tess’s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows her no affection. Tess quickly realizes she’s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out.The people of Hickory love and respect Henry but see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. When one of the town’s golden girls dies in a terrible accident, everyone holds Tess responsible. But Henry keeps his secrets even closer now, though it seems that everyone knows something about him that Tess does not. When a sudden polio epidemic strikes Hickory, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital. Tess knows she is needed and defies Henry’s wishes to begin working at there. Through this work, she begins to find purpose and meaning. Yet at home, Henry’s actions grow more alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle the truth behind her husband’s mysterious behavior and find the love—and the life—she was meant to have?A Library Reads Top Ten Book of October 2017Praise for The Stolen Marriage:"[A] well-crafted crime-tinged tale." —Publishers Weekly "The Stolen Marriage is the kind of story that will grab you and refuse to let you go until you turn the last page." —All About Romance"Readers will be sucked in immediately...you just can't go wrong with a book with [Chamberlain's] name on the cover." —Southern Pines Pilot
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Author
Diane Chamberlain
Pages
384
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2017-10-03
ISBN
1250087295 9781250087294
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"A nice book to curl up with on a rainy day! Relatable characters with a wonderful story!"
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Kathy Bourgeois
"The medical hostorical content in it "
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Heather Sims
"http://www.anurseandabook.com/2017/10/the-stolen-marriage-by-diane-chamberlain.html<br/>I've always been a Diane Chamberlain fan so I was really excited to get a copy of her new book. This seemed like a little bit of a departure from her usual books, but it was still really good.<br/><br/>Tess is a devout Catholic girl engaged to the perfect boy next door when one night's decision ends up with her married to a man she barely knows, exiled from her family and living in North Carolina.<br/><br/>Her new husband is kind but distant, her new mother and sister in law are not kind and distant, and Tess is bored, lonely and heartbroken.<br/><br/>I thought I knew what the twist was, but I was pretty wrong. Tess insists on taking her nursing boards so she can practice, despite her new family's wishes. A polio outbreak brings a familiar face back into Tess's world, and everything is thrown into chaos.<br/><br/>I loved how the storyline covered so many diverse storylines with a little bit of history. It's crazy to think how polio used to be a real concern compared to how fortunate we are now."
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Marcee Feddersen
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