Taken Bride by Alta Hensley

The Secret Bride Series

CAPTIVE BRIDE:

You will take this bride.

To have and to hold from this day forward.

Till death do you part.

This will be your solemn vow.

You have no choice.

Trapped in a twisted and dark courtship with a secret woman who needs my strength to survive, I will be wed.

Walking the thin line between lunacy and reality, I am now the protector of my future captive bride.

So, I have no choice but to recite the vows.

I take thee.

In this arranged matrimony.

Until we are parted by death.

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KEPT BRIDE:

My history is forbidden.

My story, dark and twisted.

My future decided.

I know I don’t belong in this decadent world—his world.

Money, power, and dark secrets surround me now.

I submit to it all to be his perfect obedient wife.

They stalk my every move, watching me, judging me.

I'm in the same prison just with different guards.

But all I care about is him.

His eyes, his touch, his hold over me.

I’m forever his kept bride, even though they all try to steal me away.

* * *

TAKEN BRIDE:

Secrets must be kept.

Vows never broken.

Till death do us part…

Unless everything changes.

Captive in one life…

Kept in another…

Taken to now be the wife I am forced to be.

I’m hidden away to face a dark reality only a few can survive.

But I have a purpose now. I can be the good wife I strive to be.

But he still wants me.

He will hunt me down.

He will find me and take back what was stolen.

I will be his wife if he has to fight until the death to make it happen.