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A Notorious Vow by Joanna Shupe7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But as their mutual focus narrows to each other, they don’t notice how many people around them seek to pull them apart-by any means necessary. For her part, Christina is attracted to Oliver, especially as she learns more about how to communicate with him and they begin to share the details of their pasts with one another. ![]() After losing his hearing as a teen, he’s found that despite his extraordinary wealth, most of the Four Hundred prefer to treat him as “one of those imbeciles.” However, after learning more about Christina's situation, Oliver agrees to help her out by getting married that very night, telling her it will be a yearlong, nonsexual marriage after which he will give her a financial settlement, they will annul the marriage and go back to being friends despite his attraction to her, he's reluctant to change his ways and doesn't believe that she really wants to marry him, either. She tries to find solace with Oliver Hawkes, her neighbor, but the reclusive inventor prefers to keep to himself. Van Peet as her husband, no matter how her parents beg her to do so. But she’s not so desperate that she’ll accept the elderly letch Mr. Lady Christina Barclay is desperate to escape her family, Brits temporarily in New York in search of a rich husband for her. A Gilded Age marriage of convenience that inconveniences everyone involved. ![]()
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