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...