How long does it take to read Stand-in Bride?
Stand-in Bride by Carole Halston takes about 3 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 173 pages, about 47,575 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 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
HER MARRIAGE WAS A BARGAIN When their father is lost in a storm, Nicole and her brother are left penniless. Then help comes from an unexpected source when Nicole's rich girl friend, Angela, walks out on the eve of her society wedding. If Nicole will marry Louis Chauvin - to help him save face - her financial troubles will be over. For the sake of her brother, Nicole becomes a stand-in bride. The wife of a millionaire, she has everything money can buy. But can she conquer the cold stranger she has married? Or is she doomed to a life without love?
