Book description
The legend of the Headless Horseman and a proposed marriage de
convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden
talisman ring and Lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Neither Sir
Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the
slightest inclination to marry one another, yet it is Lord Lavenham's
dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's
granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice ...
Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of
the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age, and
why her popularity endures to this day.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and
best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her
own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at
the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My
Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also
wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age
of seventy-one.
