When she discovers that her husband James married her only for her dowry, Theodora Saxby, known by the ton as The Ugly Duchess, is devastated until James launches a campaign to prove that he really loves her.

Forced to marry for money to save the family estate, the Earl of Balfour devises a strategy to win the heart of Genie Daniels, a rich English heiress, until he meets her poor cousin Augusta, forcing him to choose between family duty and love.

In the late 1600s Black Maggie Verrere was engaged to marry Sir Edric Neville in an effort to unite their two families. Instead she eloped to America with another man, and the famed Spanish dowry vanished along with her. The two families-the Verreres and the Nevilles-have hated one another ever since. Now, 150 years later, another Verrere woman seeks the dowry. Cassandra Verrere has no hope of providing a future for her younger siblings, or for herself,...

An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.

Chess of the wind: A murder mystery awash in period atmosphere plays out inside a candlelit mansion, where a web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares potential heirs as they vie over their matiarch's estate. Muna Moto: In a Cameroonian village, the rigid customs governing courtship and marriage mean that a betrothed couple, though deeply in love, can be torn apart by the lack of a dowry and another man's claiming of the young woman.

Novel based on women suffering from dowry harassment.

Ten ślub zaszokował salony... Teodora Saxby nie słynie z olśniewającej urody, jest więc ostatnią kobietą, w której londyńska socjeta widziałaby wybrankę oszałamiającego Jamesa Ryburna, dziedzica książęcego tytułu. Lecz po romantycznych oświadczynach w obecności samego następcy tronu nawet trzeźwo myśląca Teodora ufa w szczerość uczuć przyszłego męża... Plotkarska prasa wróży, że małżeństwo nie przetrwa pół roku....