The Beautiful Pretender
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8. What were Avelina’s conflicting feelings as she tried to step back and make Lord Thornbeck fall in love with Magdalen?
9. What do you think would have happened if Avelina had simply told Lord Thornbeck the truth from the beginning? How might things have been different?
10. Do you understand how Lord Thornbeck might have been confused as to how Avelina felt about him? And how she might have misunderstood his feelings for her?
11. At the end, the king intervened and, to a great extent, reversed his earlier mandate ordering the margrave to marry a nobleman’s daughter. How much of the ending was due to the king’s whims, how much to Magdalen’s intervention, and how much to Avelina’s own initiative and bravery?
12. What do you think Avelina and Reinhart learned about the worth of individuals, no matter their social status? What painful circumstances from their pasts did Avelina and Reinhart have to overcome in order to truly love each other and live happily ever after?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MELANIE DICKERSON IS a two-time Christy Award finalist and author of The Healer’s Apprentice, winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award for Best First Book in 2010, and The Merchant’s Daughter, winner of the 2012 Carol Award. She spends her time writing romantic medieval stories at her home near Huntsville, Alabama, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
Website: www.MelanieDickerson.com
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