The Convenient Marriage
Love or license? Fidelity or freedom? Hard choices for a willful young beauty in an age of romantic extravagance. THE KNOWING BRIDE — When dazzling Horatia Winwood married the powerful Earl of Rule, she was saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing...
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Love or license? Fidelity or freedom? Hard choices for a willful young beauty in an age of romantic extravagance.
THE KNOWING BRIDE — When dazzling Horatia Winwood married the powerful Earl of Rule, she was saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing herself with a life of ease. Hers was a marriage not made in heaven but in the coolly logical mind of a very self-possessed young beauty.
Not until Horatia was deep in dangerous intrigue with her husband's vengeful rival, the dashing and arrogant Lord Lethbridge, did she suddenly find -- to her own tumultuous surprise -- she had fallen in love with the man she had married for money. But was it too late, now that she was but a heartbeat away from betraying both him and herself?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780434328079 (0434328073)
Publish date: 1972
Publisher: William Heinemann
Pages no: 281
Edition language: English
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It is one of Heyer's most fun and overall enjoyable stories.
If a movie adaptation of this novel had ever been made, it would have had to involve Tim Conway and Don Knots. Nominally a romance, but truly, the book is pure slapstick comedy from start to finish. Lord Rule was the only character that wasn't ridiculous, and as a hero, this book does him a dis...
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