How long does it take to read The Marriage Contract?
The Marriage Contract by Susan Alexander takes about 3 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 187 pages, about 51,425 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 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 26 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
She was willing to gamble everything After the callous way he'd disowned her mother, the last thing Rosanna Dunham wanted was to deal with her wealthy autocratic grandfather. But she was desperate for money--money that meant saving her mother from certain death. Her grandfather's terms, though, were outrageous: go to Sicily where he lived, marry the man chosen for her, and give him an heir. She would then be free. Rosanna agreed, positive she could handle such a marriage... but that belief vanished when she discovered the unpredictable passion of her new husband....
