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Wanted: One WifePrice: Two Million DollarsSelf-made and every inch a bachelor, Sydney entrepreneur Mike Stone has one month to get married–or he'll lose a business deal worth billions! He's confident he can find a bride for the right price….Natalie Fairlane, owner of the Wives Wanted dating agency, is appalled by her new client's proposition! But the fee Mike is willing to pay is very tempting. Plus, offering herself up for the job has nothing to do with how wickedly sexy she finds him…. No, nothing at all!

She'd fallen in love again – with her ex-husband! Fiona was the successful co-owner of Five Star Weddings – the wedding coodinators as far as Sydney's society set was concerned. Which was how she got to organize her ex-husband Philip's forthcoming marriage. Fiona quickly realized she still loved Philip, but she was determined to resist the chemistry that still bubbled between them.Her job was to make sure that the wedding of the year went without a hitch… even after the bride made a stunning revelation – and Fiona found herself agreeing to be Philip's stand-in wife! They're gorgeous, they're glamorous… and they're getting married!

The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars whose most notable attribute is his vanity. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and—by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view—English manners and attitudes.