Book description
Under the reign of Louis XV, corruption and intrigue have been
allowed to blossom in France, and Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke
of Avon and proud of his soubriquet 'Satanas', flourishes as well.
Then, from a dark Parisian back alley, he plucks L-on, a red-headed
urchin with strangely familiar looks, just in time for his long
over-due schemes of revenge on the Comte de St. Vire. Among the
splendours of Versailles and the dignified mansions of England, Justin
begins to unfold his sinister plans -- until, that is, Leon becomes
the ravishing beauty Leonie ...
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.
