I’m a sucker for a marriage of convenience story. I love everything about them. I’ve written quite a few of them and read heaps, and one thing I love is that no two stories are the same. It all boils down to who the bride and groom are, under what conditions have they married and what expectations do they have about each other — and the marriage. Also, since I mostly write historicals set in the Regency, it’s very suitable to have MofC stories, as they were so common then. Marriages then were less about love and romance — they were practical arrangements, made to protect property, to consolidate wealth, to make alliances, to maintain class barriers, or to achieve a rise in class. It wasn’t always the upper classes who made convenient marriages, either. Poor people and those of the middle classes married for security, or to improve family status, too, Even a milkmaid had to have some sort of a dowry to attract a good match. And a good match meant security. But for me as a romance writer, marriages of convenience are glorious opportunities for fun. I love it when the expectations of the bride and groom…