title: The Mirages of Marriage
author: William J. Lederer
description: The late Don D. Jackson was a founder and director of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and associate professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was coauthor, with Paul Wazlawick and Janet Beavin Bavelas, of Pragmatics of Human Communication.
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  An unexpected promise . . . an everlasting passion.
  
  An accomplished musician, Dorothea Flammel has refused more proposals than any
  London debutante; her only true love is her music. Dory’s shimmering talent
  and beauty have long been adored from afar by Thomas Wheel, an untitled
  gentleman who can only dream of asking for the hand of a nobleman’s daughter.
  But when her father, the insolvent Lord Flammel, arranges for Dory to marry a
  lecherous Earl in order to pay off a debt, she runs to Thomas—and proposes
  marriage to him.
  
  Eloping to Scotland saves Dory from a disastrous fate, but what is for her a
  mere marriage of convenience proves more passionate—and more complex—than
  either imagined as rumors, scandal, and buried emotions come to light. And
  when a vengeful challenge from a drunken and embittered Lord Flammel puts
  Thomas’s life on the line, will the fragile trust between husband and wife be
  enough to save them both?
  
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