How long does it take to read Doubleday Romance Library?
Love in Store, The Byram Succession, Precious Moments
Roberta Leigh, Mira Stables, Suzanne Roberts
Doubleday Romance Library by Roberta Leigh, Mira Stables, Suzanne Roberts takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Love in Store by Roberta Leigh Samantha had it all figured out. A year to fulfill the wishes accompanying her godfather's legacy - then she'd happily return to her own life. That was the plan. Farrell's, however, a big London department store, was a fascinating new world. And Samantha's ten voting shares gave her tie-breaking powers between Zachary and Larry Farrell, battling to control the old family business. Samantha was torn between the serious, taciturn Zachary and Larry, the witty ladies' man, but not just for business reasons. For though Larry pursued her, it was Zachary she fell in love with… The Byram Succession by Mira Stables Scarred, disillusioned, cynical, but he must marry to ensure the succession. He neither expected nor desired love; just a well-bred, conformable, wife with a reasonable dowry. All the match-making mamas were on the catch for him. Which aspiring debutante would please his critical taste? To whom would fall the prize? Precious Moments by Suzanne Roberts Pretty young Jamie Eden had always though of the beautiful people in the glittering ski resort of Aspen as a race apart from her. But now, as secretary to best selling novelist David Saunders, Jamie suddenly was in the center of their dazzling social whirl, and able to see behind their glamorous masks. There was David himself, so attractive and charming, reasching out to Jamie to replace his late wife. There was gorgeous Rhonda Miles, who saw Jamie as a rival to be removed from the scene. Above all, there was incredibly handsome Thorne Gundersen, the world-famous skier, who was gentle and passionate, yet seemed determined to destroy himself in acts of reckless daring and riotous living. Jamie knew she loved him, but was love enough to stop him on his race to self-destruction?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, American Love stories, anthology
