My Lady's Deception

MAKE-BELIEVE LADY
Lady Jane Marlingforthe knew that the world was full of fainthearted people who are completely overset by adversity. Penniless, her ancestral home sold for back taxes, and with no prospects on the horizon, Lady Jane almost caved in, too -- until she thought of a plan: she'd move to a town where nobody knew her, set up her brother as her footman and her little sister as her maid, and ensnare a rich prize on the Marriage Mart. Little did she know that a handsome lord was at that very moment plotting a similar deception of his own -- and heading for the same remote village in Essex!

RAKE IN DUSGUISE
After the excitement of the Congress of Vienna and the battle of Waterloo, the Earl of Leith was bored out of his mind, with nothing to do but write his memoirs, manage his vast estates, and hoist his glass at Almack's with his beautiful but overly loquacious fiancee. Then he thought of a plan: he'd leave it all behind, including his title and fortune, and start a whole new life in the isolated Essex village of Wixton. But "Florian Fotheringay" had no inkling that he was about to meet his match -- and lose his heart.

Hero: Florian Fotheringay, Earl of Leith
Heroine: Lady Jane Marling