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Caroline Cummings, a talented vicar�s daughter, is inadvertently compromised by Thomas Mannering, rake and second son of an earl. They are forced to marry, though Thomas is obsessed with a now-married London beauty. While Caroline works to understand her tormented husband and build a life with him, he struggles to maintain his honor and their social position in Regency society. Regency Romance by Allison Lane; originally published by Signet and winner of Romantic Times Best First Regency award for 1996. Miss Caroline Cummings was a vicar’s daughter, the picture of propriety and the soul of innocence. Thomas Mannering was the most irresistible and infamous rake in the realm, whose drinking, gaming, and womanizing had exiled him from polite society. Only the most bizarre of accidents could have made Caroline his bride—but accidents do happen and did. Now Caroline’s happiness was in the hands of a libertine lord who taught her the pleasures of love but who himself was besotted with another man’s ravishing wife. This gave Caroline the choice of either settling for the scraps of Mannering’s affection or battling a supremely dazzling and designing beauty for the heart of a man who might well have none... Miss Caroline Cummings was a vicar's daughter, the picture of propriety and the soul of innocence. Thomas Mannering was the most infamous rake in the realm, whose drinking, gambling, and womanizing had exiled him from polite society. Only the most bizarre of accidents could have made Caroline his bridebut accidents do happen and did. An accidental match between innocent Caroline Cummings and infamous rake Thomas Mannering places Caroline's happiness in the hands of a man who has been exiled from the realm and who is in love with another, married woman. Original.