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Serafina (Legacy of Love)

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I just finished this book about a girl, Seraphina / Sally, who decides to play a role as a much simpler girl than she is, in order to catch a rich husband.....an exciting jouney to France, while hiding from Spanish spies. Seraphina, called Sally by her family, pretends to be twins and get herself tangled in to a lot of trouble along the way. A lovely novel from the age of Regency.

This book by Sylvia Andrew was first published in 1994. The book opens with Serafina Feverel sitting in a tree eating an apple with a worthy suitor proposing marriage to her below the tree. Her family has some financial worries so...

I shall simply quote from the back of the book...

Lady Aldworth is looking for someone who will give her grandson an heir, is meek, content to let others do her thinking for her, and is ready to allow Lord Aldworth to continue in his present mode of life.

If acting like a brainless ninny would net Serafina a wealthy husband, and so get her family out of difficulty, she would do it -until Charles caught the real Serafina in action. The only recourse was to pretend to be her `sister' Sally...