Book description
The Honourable Christopher Fancot, on leave from the diplomatic
service in the summer of 1817, is startled to find his entrancing but
incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social
ruin - and more than alarmed to find that his twin, Evelyn, has
disappeared without trace. Christopher - Kit - is forced into an
outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family:
his rigid uncle, Lord Brumby, the surprisingly wily Sir Bonamy Ripple,
the formidable old Lady Stavely and Evelyn's betrothed, Cressy. But in
the face of Evelyn's continues absence, Kit's ingenuity is stretched
to the limit ...
In this typically wonderful and sweeping romance, Georgette Heyer
shows all the skill that made her the queen of historical fiction for
over fifty years - 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.
