The Bartered Bride

A fun short book about a man who's ordered by his grandfather to marry—or else. It's set in 1905 in Minnesota; elderly Abraham Kennebrae is a shipping magnate and intends to divide his fortune among his three grandsons, but only after they marry the young ladies he chooses for them.

Jonathan Kennebrae's outrage over the arrangement is huge, but pretty soon he is finding admiration for beautiful, determined Melissa. What if he does let his grandfather win this round? But many other things are about to happen...

I'm often hearing about the suffrage movement in historical books about this era, though in period novels it wasn't often in the forefront. This was one of the more engaging and interesting representations of it, and one of the least stereotypical.