A Regency Charade Author:Elizabeth Mansfield Alec Tyrell doesn't protest his arranged marriage to Priscilla Vickers because he's loved her since they were children--a feeling she shares. But their happiness is soon ruined when another man claims to be Priss's lover. — He appeared, disturbingly handsome, in the doorway. "Well, my dear, are you ready for our first performance... more » in this charade?" He appraised her with an odd look in his eyes. "No one at the ball will be able to take their eyes off you, you know..." "What a whisker!" she retorted, uncomfortably aware of her racing pulse. "Indeed?" Captain Alec Tyrrell almost smiled. "If you want the truth of it, it makes me wish I were truly your husband again. And now that you've won that trick from me," he said as he offered Priss his arm, "we'd better go before I lose the game..."« less