A stranger's life, a forced proposal, a decade she never chose.
Julie Stein closes her eyes in her own time and opens them in the 1980s, wearing the life of a wealthy household's unwanted ward. No blood ties bind her to the family, yet they treat her as currency, shipping her off to replace their legitimate daughter at the altar. Her groom is an older widower already raising two children, a stranger she never agreed to marry. Trapped in a past that isn't hers, Julie faces a future written by people who see her as replaceable.
historical
contract-marriage
family
rebirth
What draws you in
Time travel into unwanted arranged marriage
Substitute bride with no blood ties
Widower and two children await
You'll love it if
You want a fish-out-of-water heroine fighting a forced union in a retro setting.
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