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How long does it take to read Desperate Measures?

Sara Craven

Desperate Measures by Sara Craven takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 27 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1991. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 27 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 9 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Had fate brought them together? Philippa Roscoe needed a large sum_ of money and she needed it fast--her father's life depended on it. Wealthy French businessman Alain de Courcy needed a wife--purely for business reasons. Alain was only too happy to provide Philippa with the funds she required. In exchange he demanded marriage and not just in name only. There was little Philippa could do: she had to agree to his terms. She hadn't agreed to fall under Alain's charismatic spell. But could Philippa keep herself from falling in love or had this marriage of convenience become a desperate act ... '' Warning, non con

Subjects: Fiction, romance, general

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