The prince lives in a castle with a tower, and his marriage is full of deceit… "No one will allow me to do this." The bride, Glenda, closed her eyes as if in prayer. Forced to marry without love to honor her late adoptive mother, she sat at the altar and thought about the truth that her mother, who had taken her from an orphanage and raised her, had just told her. She was a lookalike of the woman's actual daughter, who had died of illness. And Glenda's mother had received a huge amount of support from a wealthy man in return for her actual daughter's marriage in the future, and that the contract had not been broken even after the death of that daughter. Will I have no choice but to bear the heavy cross of falsehood and marry into his arrogance?

Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman Ñ socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her partner the same way? Boyd's first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-dressing men and their partners. Now, She's Not the Man I Married is both a sequel and a more expansive examination of gender in relationships. It's for couples who are homosexual or heterosexual, and for readers who fall anywhere along the gender continuum. As Boyd struggles to understand the nature of marriage, passion, and love, she shares her confusion and anger, providing a fascinating observation of the ways in which relationships are gendered, and how we cope, or don't, with the emotional and sexual pressures that gender roles can bring to our marriages and relationships.

Gideon and Prue Hale are still married—but try telling that to Prue. Even though no papers have been signed, as far as Prue’s concerned it’s over. She can never forgive Gideon’s betrayal. When Gideon comes to Maple Hill with an offer to help get her fledgling clothing design company some publicity, Prue has trouble turning him down. Especially when Gideon is being so nice. There’s only one catch—she has to pretend they’re still happily married, for his aunt’s sake. But while playing her part, Prue realizes she misses Gideon. And might still love him…

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.

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The Man Who Married a Mermaid (1949) tells the picaresque story of a sailor, PEre Olifus, who first marries a mermaid, then embarks upon a series of voyages to a semi-mythical Far East where he enjoys various economic opportunities, but remains plagued by the vengeful astral form of the mermaid wife he left behind. Master storyteller Alexandre Dumas teamed up with Paul Lacroix intending to produce a series of magical tales, of which this wry, sarcastic fable of supernaturally-punished infidelity was the first. When the project failed, Lacroix expanded the story into a novella, which remains entertaining as well as intriguing, and deserves to be reckoned one of the flawed classics of its genre.