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Regency Romance
1800s
1800s
England
“When Miranda Luce’s father dies and leaves
her penniless, the spirited young miss decides to become an actress. She joins
the theater troupe belonging to her sister Mary and her husband Edward. But
then Edward is unjustly thrown into debtor’s prison. Miranda and her sister must
raise the money to save them all from ruin. Lord Justin Devereux needs a
fiancée—in a hurry! Justin doesn’t want to get married, he just wants to take
control of his inheritance and escape the upper-class London social scene. His
solution: Hire an actress who can play the role of his fiancée at one important
family dinner.
But Lord Justin’s trustee isn’t satisfied and
Miranda’s role must be extended. The longer the masquerade lasts, the more
complicated it becomes. Will the deception be unmasked before each gets what
they want?”
The plot
reminded me of a typical jape that Bertie Wooster and his ever-faithful Jeeves
would try to pull off – although P.G. Wodehouse’s hilarious tales are pure
comedy, and this delightful tale is typical Regency Romance.
It is
predictable – of course you know that Miranda and Justin are going to fall in
love, you know it will have a happy ending – but this is the stuff of the
romance genre, so so what?
The pleasure is
in the journey, not the destination, and I found Saralee Etter’s A Limited
Engagement to be a thoroughly enjoyable escapism read. Just right for a cold
winter night curled in front of the fire, or for an entertaining holiday read.
© Mary Chapple
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