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Renowned as the Darling of Drury Lane, actress Ruby Chadwick has spent her career dazzling audiences while dodging unwanted suitors. Determined to escape the glittering spotlight, she adopts her birth name, Lavinia Fernley, and attempts to vanish. When a chance encounter with the handsome stranger Lucas Jennings compels her to assume a new role—claiming him as her husband—a far‑cunning charade begins.
Lavinia and Lucas journey to Primrose Farm, where she is introduced to Lucas’s family as his fiancée. The deception deepens, blurring lines between pretense and genuine affection. Yet the concealed truth threatens to surface, challenging Lavinia’s dream of a simple, happy ending.
Set against the historical backdrop of London’s theatrical world, the novel explores themes of identity, romance, and the price of deceit in a society where image is everything.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Karen Tuft
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