A thrilling Regency pretense.
England, 1812
When Annaliese Schmidt is invited by her well-to-do estranged aunt, Lady Dixon, to trade her agrarian life on the wild moors of Devon for the sophistication of high society, near London, she assumes this will be her ticket to social mobility. However, the naive eighteen-year-old will soon learn that the path to society comes at the cost of her moral compass.
Masquerading under a cloak of deception at the behest of her aunt, Annaliese must navigate challenging social conventions, fend off the unwanted advances of a saccharine-tongued neighbourhood creep, and quell the whims of a cunning blackmailer who threatens to expose her secret.
In a game of cat and mouse, can Annaliese keep up the pretence?
Can she continue to lie once she finds herself falling for a kind, handsome and unassuming son of a baron?
Will the audience spot the elephant in the room when she is coerced into performing on stage in a ridiculous farce that parodies her rags-to-riches scheme?
When will the façade come tumbling down?
