Book description
Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible
Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing
to improve his temper. For now he must send for the unknown offspring
of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention. Yet none
of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the
weaver's brat and heir apparent ...
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.
