Marriage Rites (Mills & Boon)

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Summary: Historical Romance set in 1694
Review: Not my favourite time period. The author makes reference to a beggar asking for 5 pounds, a rather large fortune in those days. The descriptions of the conditions in the fleet prison were a little too graphic for my tastes. In fact I gave up after the first 70 pages.

From the back of the hardback:

MARRIAGE RITES
PAULINE BENTLEY
ESSEX 1694

Laura Stanton could lose Fairfield Manor on her grandfather's death ' and he was dying. In sheer desperation she undertook a Fleet marriage with a prisoner, Matthew Thorne, only to find her simple plan was fraught with problems. Her grandfather Unexpectedly rallied, and her 'marriage' had to seem real. But Matthew had his own demons to fight, and answers to find, before he could think about any future with Laura. Once he had his ship back, be would he off to sea, and Laura wouldn't leave Fairfield...