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Married on Spite, Loved by Grace: He Married Her to Spite His Mother, But He Didn't Expect to Fall in Love With a Woman of Faith

Married on Spite, Loved by Grace: He Married Her to Spite His Mother, But He Didn't Expect to Fall in Love With a Woman of Faith

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Christian Fiction

ISBN13: 9798189399404
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tanya Jacobs never imagined that desperation would lead her into a marriage contract with one of China's most powerful men. Far from her home in Brooklyn and struggling to pay for her younger sister's life-saving medical treatment, the devoted Christian intern accepts an impossible offer from Tien Liu, the wealthy chief executive of Liu Global: marry him for six months, help him defy the controlling mother determined to choose his bride, and walk away with enough money to secure her sister's future.

For Tien Liu, the arrangement is meant to be nothing more than revenge. Raised by emotionally distant parents who valued reputation and business above love, he has spent his life using money, power, and rebellion to stay in control. Marrying a woman his mother considers entirely unsuitable seems like the perfect way to destroy her plans for a corporate alliance with the beautiful heiress Ling Wei.

However, Tien Liu is unprepared for Tanya's courage, humor, compassion, and unwavering faith. As they begin living together in his luxurious Hangzhou penthouse, their carefully written boundaries become harder to maintain. Quiet dinners turn into vulnerable late-night conversations, staged affection begins to feel real, and the woman Tien Liu chose as a weapon slowly becomes the only person who sees the lonely man behind his wealth.

Their growing love is soon threatened by family secrets, public scandal, corporate betrayal, and Ling Wei's ruthless determination to expose their marriage. When Tanya's painful family history is released to the world and Ling Wei claims to be carrying Tien Liu's child, Tanya must decide whether remaining beside him is faith or compromise. Tien Liu must also confront a truth money cannot silence: he has spent his entire life calling control wisdom because surrender has always frightened him.

Through hospital corridors, broken trust, public humiliation, and a testimony that forces Tien Liu to examine his heart, God begins turning a marriage created through foolish rebellion into a journey of repentance and redemption. What the Liu family considered weak becomes the very instrument God uses to confront their pride, heal old wounds, and reveal that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom.

Set between the modern elegance of Hangzhou and the busy streets of Brooklyn, Married on Spite, Loved by Grace is a cross-cultural Christian love story about surrender, forgiveness, family healing, and the surprising purpose God can bring from choices that began in fear.

- Will Tanya protect her faith when her growing love for Tien Liu tempts her to compromise the convictions that have guided her life?

- Will Tien Liu surrender the control that built his empire and open his heart to the God he has resisted since childhood?

- And when scandal, betrayal, and a devastating medical emergency threaten everything they have begun to build, can a marriage founded on revenge be transformed into a covenant built by God?

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