The Little Adventure (The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library #3)

By Barbara Cartland

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006W142K
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: Bantam
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Firs time in paperback: a fake marriage!

Here is the synopsis, although it describes nothing of what really the book is about: "Paris in 1869 was a wildly extravagant society, one in which women valued jewels above love and lavish spending brought rich men to ruin. Yet it was to Paris that the breathtakingly beautiful Lady Corinna Vernon fled in order to escape her shrewish aunt, and assumed the post of governess under a disguised name, There, too, she met the Duke of Milverton, a wealthy handsome lord. Soon they were both caught up in an elaborate deception that could only draw them strangely closer." So far, as we are reading the summary, we are thinking this is another BC book with a lady pretending be a governess, the hero in shinning armour falling in love with her and, as we turn over the pages, we are plotting the plausible endings in our mind. What you don't know - if you haven't read the book - is that Lord Milverton saw Lady Corinna the night before she arrived to the castle, and leaving one of the houses of pleasure nevertheless! She didn't see him, but he was very much aware from the beginning that the new governess was not as innocent as she pretended him to believe. A couple of turns in the story, a duel, and a near-death experience get our couple together, but as he confesses he is very much in love with her, she asks him for a quietly marriage... He is both angry and surprised that this little pretender wanted a wedding ring, so he decides to teach her a lesson and plans a stage marriage with a local actor playing as a parson. Here is one fragment when he tells her it all was a farse: "I am saying, my dear, that you tried to cheat me and you have failed! But I have been too clever for you, make no mistake about that! Your acting was commendable, as polished as the performance the young actor gave when he married us, or so you believed!"