Book description
A renowned gamester, and the first to own that he is untroubled by a
romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with
indifference. But when he learns that his young cousin Adrian is bent
on marrying Deborah Grantham, beautiful mistress of her aunt's gaming
house, he meets an opponent in whom all his experience of risk and
gambles finds him unprepared.
Full of typically rogueish heroes and beautiful heroines, Faro's
Daughter shows all the qualities that made the greatest romantic
novelist of her age, and won her a huge audience that continues 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.
