Book description
Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca,
returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin
and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is
Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces
him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth
with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed
on a suitable match for his one and only daughter.
For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer brought romance and
adventure to a wordwide readership and Civil Contarct shows how
she continues to be loved today.
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.
