title: How To Stylishly Fall From Grace: Revelations From My Perfectly-Flawed Life
author:  Felicia Coley 
description: Felicia Coley lives and writes in Upstate, New York. She is the editor and founder of The Well-Heeled Society lifestyle blog. She is an Expert Maven for ThisNext, the social shopping network for millions of shoppers, and has written for Magazine BLU, about...Time Magazine, her Rochester and Relate.
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  Mary Balogh
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PAST IMPERFECT
  
  
  
  
  
  Lovely Grace Howard had every reason to be devoted to Sir Perry Lampman. This
  wealthy and gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his
  bride. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his proposal or his affection when
  she confessed to a youthful folly in love that had compromised her virtue.
  
  
  
  
  
  But one thing she kept from her husband about the handsome lord who had
  betrayed her would turn the white lie she told her tender, trusting husband
  into something far more serious...
  
  
  
  
  
  TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
  
  
  
  
  
  "You said that you love me," he said. "And always will. Tell the truth now."
  
  
  
  
  
  “How can I love you?'' Grace answered. “I hate you. No, not that. I am
  indifferent to you."
  
  
  
  
  
  His face was angry, she saw in the moonlight. "Liar!" he said. "We will have
  the truth spoken, Grace. You hate me, perhaps. I will accept that. You are not
  indifferent to me."
  
  
  
  
  
  She cried sudd