Book description
Endowed with rank, wealth and elegance, Sylvester, Duke of Salford,
posts into Wiltshire to discover if the Honorable Phoebe Marlow will
meet his exacting requirements for a bride. If he does not expect to
meet a tongue-tied stripling wanting both manners and conduct, then he
is intrigued indeed when his visit causes Phoebe to flee her home.
They meet again on the road to London, where her carriage has come to
grief in the snow. Yet Phoebe, already caught in one imbroglio, now
knows she soon could be well deep in another ...
A typically wonderful historical novel, Sylvester shows once
more why Georgette Heyer is the undisputed queen of the genre she
created - the Regency romance.
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.
