title: Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities in Marriage
author:  Susanne M. Alexander 
description: "Thank you for Pure Gold. Character is the foundation of life."<div>~ John Covey, Director of Franklin Covey Home and Family Division</div><br /><br /><div>&quot;Pure Gold is a lifeline for today's couples, containing rich definitions of the virtues that sustain joy, tenderness, and intimacy in our marriages. It provides valuable tools of understanding, reflection, and action, leading each couple to their own path of lasting transformation.&quot;</div><div>~ Linda Kavelin Popov, author of <i>The Family Virtues Guide</i> and <i>A Pace of Grace</i>; married to Dan Popov, Ph.D.</div><br /><br /><div>&quot;Intimacy, love, and partnership in marriage develop when spouses commit themselves to one another and develop the ethical strength to abide such commitments, even though they may call for significant sacrifices and compromises. With a refreshing openness to the common insights of both faith and science, Pure Gold lays out some simple steps couples can take to form and maintain this type of mature marriage.&quot;</div><div>~ Jason S. Carroll, Ph.D., coauthor of <i>Premarital Predictors of Marital Quality or Breakup</i>; School of Family Life, Brigham Young University</div><br /><br /><div>&quot;I have been happily married to my wife Jody for 23 years, a marriage therapist for twenty years, and the author of several books on marriage and family life. Yet I was learning new things as I devoured the pages of this book. Pure Gold is a pure gift--engaging, wise, and chock full of ideas that can be immediately put into action and make your marriage a pure joy.&quot;</div><div>~ Paul Coleman, Psy.D., author of <i>How to Say It for Couples: Communicating with Tenderness, Openness, and Honesty</i></div><br /><br /><div>&quot;Pure Gold is a solid formula for those who are willing to work on their marriage relationship and personal growth. God bless you for your obviously demanding labor of love for Love.&quot;</div><div>~ Greg and Ann Miller, Executive Directors of Open Door Family Ministry; married couple</div><div></div>
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  A convenient bride
  
  Can he be the groom she deserves?
  
  Part of The Beauchamp Heirs. Lord Alexander Beauchamp has protected Lady Jane
  Colebrooke since childhood. So seeing she’s about to be forced to wed, he
  steps in with a proposal of his own! But Alex underestimated the closeness
  that taking Jane as his bride demands—something he expected never to give. As
  Christmas approaches, he knows he must confront the dark secrets that shadow
  their marriage...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jane’s head pounded.
  
  She shouldn’t accept him. She knew she shouldn’t. This was just like Alex.
  Impulsive. Doing things he would later regret. He’d been like this all through
  their childhood. But Jane had no energy. No strength. No courage. The fear
  Stepmama would, somehow, force her to marry Pikeford was all consuming.
  
  She had dwindled until she was a mere husk, and like a husk, she allowed
  herself to be carried on the wind. “Yes.”
  
  All she wanted was for all of this—and all of the