North Star Brides by Erica Vetsch

This book is a three stories in one book.  The first story is entitles The Bartered Bride.  The story is about Jonathan Kennebrae and Melissa Brooke.  Their families have arranged their marriage as a business opportunity.  Melissa and Jonathan want no part of this.  However, Jonathan has to go forward with this or he will lose the shipping business that he has worked so hard to keep going for his grandfather.  This story has some misunderstandings between the characters but they are resolved pretty quickly.  Towards the end, I was wondering if the story would end the way I wanted it to and it did.  I enjoyed this story and am looking forward to reading about what happens with Jonathan's brother, Noah, in the second story, The Marriage Masquerade.

In The Marriage Masquerade, Noah Kennebrae is looking to escape Duluth and the bad memories from the night he wrecked his ship.  He also doesn't want to marry the girl his grandfather has picked out for him.  He decides to change his name and take a job as a lightkeeper's assistant.  Anastasia Michaels is shocked when she finds out her father is arranging a marriage for her.  She doesn't want to be in an loveless marriage so she comes up with a plan to run away.  She ends up taking a job as the housekeeper for the lighthouse keeper and his wife.  The story is about how these two deal with memories from their past as well as fight their growing attraction to each other when they both have secrets to hide.  The story ends with the introduction of the last Kennebrae sibling, Eli.

The Engineered Engagement

All Eli Kennebrae wants to do is design ships.  However, his grandfather has other plans for him as well.  He wants him to marry one of the Zahn girls.  Josie Zahn has been in love with Eli for over four years since she met him at the Shipbuilder's ball where he danced with her sister Clarice.  An announcement is made after Noah and Annie's wedding on the engagement of Eli and Clarice.  All kinds of secrets are kept.  Clarice loves another.  Josie masquerades as a math professor.  Eli just wants to build his ship.  All these secrets eventually come out.  I definitely enjoyed all three stories in this book.  I would definitely read them again and was glad that I got to see how each brother in the family ended up.

I received this book for free from NetGalley.  I was not required to write a positive review for receiving this book.