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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: Aug 2008
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 400
A sparkling Regency romance from the queen of the genre, with an element of mystery and some of the beloved fictional characters from An Infamous Army.
'Clever!' Library Journal
After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother travel to London to meet their guardian, Julian St. John Audley, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian one bit more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests, hoping to return them to the country until they reach majority and his job is done.
But Miss Taverner begins to move in the highest circles of society and Lord Worth cannot help but begin to admire her...
'My favourite historical novelist--stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours.' --Margaret Drabble
'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph
'Sparkling.' Independent on Sunday
'A writer of great wit and style...I've read her books to ragged shreds.' --Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph