num_pages: 208
description: Just in time for Valentine's Day from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh comes yet another classic historical tale that sizzles with romance and unforgettable drama. Reginald Mason is wealthy refined and by all accounts a gentleman. However he is not a gentleman by title a factor that pains him and his father within the Regency society that upholds station over all else. That is until an opportunity for social advancement arises namely Lady Annabelle Ashton. Daughter of the Earl of Havercroft a neighbor and enemy of the Mason family Annabelle finds herself disgraced by a scandal one that has left her branded as damaged goods. Besmirched by shame the earl is only too happy to marry Annabelle off to anyone willing to have her.Though Reginald Mason Senior wishes to use Annabelle to propel his family up the social ladder his son does not wish to marry her preferring instead to live the wild single life he is accustomed to. With this Reginald Senior serves his son an ultimatum: marry Annabelle or make do without family funds. Having no choice Reginald consents and enters into a hostile engagement in which the prospective bride and groom are openly antagonistic each one resenting the other for their current state of affairs while their respective fathers revel in their suffering.So begins an intoxicating tale rife with dark secrets deception and the trials of lovea story in which very little is as it seems.
language: English
title: A Matter of Class
publisher: Vanguard Press