title: Practice to Deceive ([The Golden chronicles)
author:  Patricia Veryan 
description: With this romantic adventure set in Georgian England, the author of the well-received Saguinet Saga begins a new series, The Golden Chronicles. The time is 1746, after the Battle of Culloden; the rebel Jacobites are on the run, their heads heavily priced. Young Penelope Montgomery, well born but not conventionally pretty, loses her heart to Quentin Chandler, "a bit of a rascal with the ladies." Later, orphaned and living under the duress of her rapacious uncle and his vixenish wife, Penelope encounters Quentin, now a fugitive Jacobite military hero. Throwing in her lot, politically as well as emotionally, with Quentin, she embarks on a series of entertaining subterfuges, aliases and disguises that keep the plot roiling and the one-dimensional heroes and villains moving smartly through their intrigues. November 2<br />Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Guardian
  
  Joan Wolf
  
  Warner Books
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Also by Joan Wolf
  
  The Deception
  
  The Guardian
  
  The Arrangement
  
  The Gamble
  
  The Pretenders
  
  Golden Girl
  
  Someday Soon
  
  Royal Bride
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  THE GUARDIAN. Copyright © 1997 by Joan Wolf. All rights reserved. No part of
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  For Patty, Eileen and Peggy: we band of sisters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  CHAPTER one
  
  MY GOD, MY GOD, MY GOD, HE'S READING GERALD'S will.
  
  It was as if someone had just deal