The Stand-In Bride (Romance, 3681)

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Summary: Secerts
Review: Too many secerts, the story of Don Sabastian Santiago is hard to beleive, he hand pick and bride and proceeds to mold her into the wife he wants. Only Catalina is empty headed and no real match for him.
Catalina sees Sabastian as a middle-aged (old) man that wants a young wife to make him feel young.
Maggie Cortez a widow is hired to tutor Catalina in the finer things of life, like ballet, and shakespear.
Catalina would rather shop, and do bally dances.
Catalina falls in love with Sabastian's man of business, and love sparks between Maggie and Sabastian.
Sabastian soon sees his mistake but is too proud to admit it.
Maggie has been burned by her late husband and is too scared to try again.
After Catalina runs off with her true love Sabastian blames Maggie insists she stand in as his bride.
Maggie finds true love and Sabastian learns to let others think for themselves.
Lucy Gordon gets so caught up in the secerts of Catalina and her new found love, Maggie's late husband and what happened in their marrage, and what happened to make Sabastian believe he could make (my fair lady) a woman into the perfect wife that the book loses a lot of it's romance, almost to the end.