Author: Georgette Heyer
Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle.Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his family- enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, disconcertingly blunt and brash. But he turns out to be Abbie’s most important ally in keeping her niece out of … niece out of trouble.But how can he possibly be considered eligible when she has worked so hard to rebuff his own nephew’s suit for her niece? And how…
Georgette Heyer had a handful of unforgettable heroines, of which Arabella is one of the most engaging. Daughter of a modest country clergyman, Arabella Tallant is on her way to London when her carriage breaks down outside the hunting lodge of the wealthy Mr. Robert Beaumaris. Her pride stung when she overhears a remark of her host’s, Arabella pretends to be an heiress, a pretense that deeply … deeply amuses the jaded Beau. To counter her white lie, Beaumaris launches her into high society and thereby subjects her to all kinds of fortune hunters and other embarrassments. When compassionate Arabella…
Read along as Regency women find their matches in this stunning collection, featuring three of Heyer’s most beloved novels and a bonus novella! “No one has ever matched Georgette Heyer for charm and wit” (New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas).
“A treasure beyond price. The Masqueraders is a wicked delight, worth more than its weight in gold.” Anne Stuart Such a daring escape Their infamous adventurer father has taught Prudence Tremaine and her brother Robin to be masters of disguise. Ending up on the wrong side of the Jacobite rebellion, brother and sister flee to London, Prudence pretending to be a dashing young buck, and Robin a … buck, and Robin a lovely young lady. Could cost them both their hearts Then Prudence meets the elegant Sir Anthony Fanshawe, and Robin becomes the mysterious hero of the charming Letitia Grayson,…
To launch her sisters into society, Frederica needs the help of the Marquis of Alverstoke. He reluctantly agrees — only to find himself enchanted by Frederica herself. From a classic New York Times bestselling author who “is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen” (Publishers Weekly).
Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt’s elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, with no help from hero Max Ravenscar, whose insults spur her to reprisal.
Witty…a cheerful extravaganza. -The New Yorker His exploits were legendary… Captain John Staple, back from the battlefront, is already bored with his quiet civilian life in the country. When he stumbles upon a mystery involving a disappearing toll-gate keeper, nothing could keep the adventure-loving captain from investigating. But winning her will be his greatest yet…
“A five-star job of sheerly delightful romance writing.” Chicago Sunday Tribune Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife? Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mr. … to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself-but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter,…
Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen.” -Publishers Weekly A young lady of beauty and intelligence facing an unbearable choice… Venetia Lanyon is one of Georgette Heyer’s most memorable heroines. Beautiful, capable, and independent minded, her life on the family’s estate in the countryside is somewhat circumscribed. Then a chance encounter with her rakish … rakish neighbor opens up a whole new world for Venetia. Lord Damerel has built his life on his dangerous reputation, and when he meets Venetia, he has nothing to offer and everything to regret. As Venetia’s well-meaning family steps in…
“My favourite historical novelist.”-Margaret Drabble“Sparkling.”-Independent on SundayA sham betrothal isn’t the only thing that gets Kitty and Freddy into trouble, but it’s definitely the beginning ..A most unusual heroFreddy is immensely rich, of course, and not bad-looking, but he’s mild-mannered, a bit hapless-not anything like his virile, handsome, rakish cousin Jack …A heroine in a … cousin Jack …A heroine in a difficult situationYoung Kitty Charing stands to inherit a vast fortune from her irascible and eccentric guardian-provided she marries one of his great-nephews …A sham betrothal No sooner does Kitty arrive in London then the race for her hand…