Book description
In all her twenty-five years, lovely Venetia Lanyon has never been
further than Harrogate, nor enjoyed the attentions of any but her two
wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter,
she meets a neighbour she only knows by reputation - the infamous Lord
Damerel - and before she knows better, is egging on a libertine whose
way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years.
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.
