Book description
John, Duke of Bedford, grew to manhood fighting for his father, King
Henry IV of England, on the wild and lawless Northern Marches. A prince
of the royal blood, loyal, strong, the greatest ally that his brother -
the future Henry V - was to have. Filled with the clash of bitter
rivalries and deadly power struggles, this is Georgette Heyer's last and
most ambitious novel. Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is
the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making 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.
