title: Guide for the Romantically Perplexed
author:  Lisa Aiken 
description: Billed as "the first practical, comprehensive guide that integrates research, professional marriage counseling techniques and Jewish wisdom," this book uses ancient Jewish teachings about marriage as a starting point for finding--and keeping--a mate. Aiken, a psychologist who lives in Jerusalem, opens the book with yenta-like tips on "who to be and what to look for" when searching for one's "b'shert" (intended). She then offers advice on all the details of planning a wedding, even giving suggestions on how to keep kosher in an exotic honeymoon location. But Aiken's sensible and businesslike advice does not come to an end under the marriage canopy; she is deeply concerned about divorce statistics, so the second half of the book discusses marital communication, problem-solving and the two potentially explosive issues of money and sex. Her brief chapter on how children change a marriage seems almost like an afterthought, but in all, this is a sweeping guide that lives up to its own promises. <BR>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  A Pretense of Love
  
  [Aileen
  Fish](https://www.ellorascave.com/index.php/authors/index/author/slug/aileen-
  fish/)
  
  Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual
  content).
  
  Twenty-two-year-old Miss Jean Seaton��s best chance of finding a husband is
  behind her. When her brother’s friend offers to pay for a Season in London in
  exchange for pretending to be his betrothed, she sees it as a miracle.
  
  Ben needs a fiancée to convince his dying grandfather that he has settled down
  and is capable of inheriting and running his business and estate. But he
  didn’t consider how spending six weeks with Jean would make her necessary to
  his happiness. Now she’s in London and he’s in agony. A gentleman never
  reneges on an agreement…unless his heart is broken.
  
  A Blush® Regency romance from Ellora’s Cave
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A
  
  
  PRETENSE OF LOVE
  
  Aileen Fish
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  Fall, 1816, Hambledon, Hampshire
  
  “Yes, I will accept your offer.”
  
  The words slipped out so easily M