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    False Pretences a classic, fact fiction, Regency Romance   by Rosemary Morris. Published by BooksWeLove Historical Novel Society Review Cynthia Slowcum Annabelle, a girl of 18, has no idea who her parents were. When informed that her anonymous guardian has ordered her to marry a much older man she has never met, she runs away from the boarding school that has been her home for most of her life. A desperate need to discover who she is drives her into a hasty marriage with a man she encounters by accident and assumes to be someone he is not. Jealousy and a sense of betrayal mar the amorous attraction she feels for him. A threat arises as news of her questionable elopement becomes public, prompting Annabelle to flee for a second time in a quest for answers about her family, only to find herself still within a labyrinth of pretense. She faces danger and the peril of never having a place in London society. Conflict and wrong assumptions impede her efforts to ac...

  Nicholas, Marquess of Pennington returns to England from the Napoleonic war. After a tragedy, before he joined the army, he never intends to marry. He will lead a quiet life managing his estate and writing history books. He is unsuited to family life but this changes when his friend, Max. dies, appointing him as guardian to his young daughter, Arabella and his son, Jeremy, who attends Eton. As though that is not enough to disrupt Nicholas’s life, he promises Max to ensure his daughter, Carrie, has a London season and marries a suitable gentleman. Devoted to her siblings, Carrie will not marry a man, who will refuse permission for her siblings to live with them, if she can wrench them from Nicholas’s custody. When Nicholas first met Carrie, “if had expected a will-o-the-wisp clasping a volume of poetry to her chest he couldn’t have been more wrong. Beneath her dark eyebrows she was making a critical study of him.” Before Max died, he warned Nicholas about his brother Simon, a ...