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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Romance - Regency
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 368
A lightsome, brightsome comedy.'
-Kirkus Reviews
'Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency.'
-The New Yorker
Georgette Heyer's sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history-when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility and romantic intrigues ruled the day. Heyer's heroines are smart and independent; her heroes are dashing noblemen who know how to handle a horse, fight a duel, or address a lady. And her sense of humor is legendary.
When the incomparable Miss Milbourne spurns the impetuous Lord Sherington's marriage proposal (she laughs at him-laughs!) he vows to marry the next female he encounters, who happens to be the young, penniless Miss Hero Wantage, who has adored him all her life. Whisking her off to London, Sherry discovers there is no end to the scrapes his young, green bride can get into, and she discovers the excitement and glamorous social scene of the ton. Not until a deep misunderstanding erupts and Sherry almost loses his bride, does he plumb the depths of his own heart, and surprises himself with the love he finds there.
'Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen.'
-Publishers Weekly
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations.
Miss Annis Wychwood, at twenty-nine, has long been on the shelf, but this bothers her not at all. She is rich and still beautiful and she enjoys...
After inheriting her aunt’s fortune, reserved Eliza Hammond suddenly finds herself the target of every fortune hunter in London and enlists the...
Alisdair Cynster goes to visit his mentor, Horatio Waltham, and finds that old Waltham has been murdered. He investigates with the aid of the...
Determined to escape the marriage-minded young ladies of the ton and their matchmaking mothers, Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick invents a...
Known as the Queen of Regency romance, Georgette Heyer also wrote a dozen acclaimed mysteries. In The Reluctant Widow, she intertwines a suspenseful...
Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen.'- Publishers WeeklyA missing twin ...Something is very wrong, and the...
Determined to assist her family, impoverished by the theft of her late mother's fortune by her stepfather, Ava Fairchild weds the roguish Jared...
After the death of her husband, Lady Julia Barrowby, who has long been assisting the ailing Lord Barrowby in his work with the Royal Four, is...
Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin...