Historical romance, bitter hero seeks revenge with fake marriage
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1amc473
Hero wants revenge against heroine's family. She is unaware. They marry. Fake marriage(fake minister). She is unaware. She gets pregnant. He plans to ruin her letting her have his bastard. He is bitter. When he changes his mind and tries to marry her for real without her finding out it blows up. Its not this other eden or dream lover. I've been given these suggestions. I believe he tells her brother or father about it being a fake marriage while she's pregnant. They didn't tell her as not to upset her.
4MyriadBooks
Gosh, that summary rings a faint bell. Some regency I read in the 90s? Grrr; let me think.
ETA: Maybe something by Catherine Coulter? Although I'm not seeing a plot match in my quick look over her titles.
ETA II: Okay, I might not be thinking of your same book. IIRC, in mine, the hero was a younger son who learned that his deceased brother had pretended to marry the heroine and had a daughter with her. The hero and heroine meet after the brother's death. (The hero was known as the family black sheep and rake, although everyone was clearly blind to the deceased brother being nastier.) I think the deceased brother had taken the heroine up to Greta Green and married her in front of a hired (fake) minister, it had been a plot point that the heroine's father discovered the lie after the fact but kept quiet about it so as to spare his daughter's feelings as she had (fake) married the deceased brother in good faith.
Still fretting about remembering the name of this title, mind.
ETA III: Amanda Quick's Scandal (1991) has the hero callously seducing the heroine into falling in love with him in a plan to revenge himself against her father, but while I remember some pregnancy drama, I don't think the marriage was anything less than legal.
ETA: Maybe something by Catherine Coulter? Although I'm not seeing a plot match in my quick look over her titles.
ETA II: Okay, I might not be thinking of your same book. IIRC, in mine, the hero was a younger son who learned that his deceased brother had pretended to marry the heroine and had a daughter with her. The hero and heroine meet after the brother's death. (The hero was known as the family black sheep and rake, although everyone was clearly blind to the deceased brother being nastier.) I think the deceased brother had taken the heroine up to Greta Green and married her in front of a hired (fake) minister, it had been a plot point that the heroine's father discovered the lie after the fact but kept quiet about it so as to spare his daughter's feelings as she had (fake) married the deceased brother in good faith.
Still fretting about remembering the name of this title, mind.
ETA III: Amanda Quick's Scandal (1991) has the hero callously seducing the heroine into falling in love with him in a plan to revenge himself against her father, but while I remember some pregnancy drama, I don't think the marriage was anything less than legal.
