Charity Girl

When Viscount Desford encounters Charity Steane, who is a very young lady walking to London alone, he is honor bound to assist her. She tells him she is running away from the drudgery of her aunt's household to find her grandfather, who, it turns out, is not in London after all, but away in the country.

Dashing about the countryside to find the elusive gentleman, the Viscount must observe all the proprieties while preventing his young charge from bringing ruin upon herself-and him.

In the end, his best idea is to bring Charity to his lifelong best friend Henrietta, who has secretly loved him all along, and who, with the aplomb and superb judgment befitting in a future Viscountess, saves the day for everyone.

My favourite historical novelist--stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours. --Margaret Drabble

Georgette Heyer is unbeatable. Sunday Telegraph

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A writer of great wit and style...I've read her books to ragged shreds. --Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph

When Viscount Desford encounters Charity Steane walking to London alone, he feels honor bound to assist her. Dashing about the countryside to find Charity's elusive grandfather, the Viscount must somehow prevent his exasperating charge from bringing ruin upon herself-and him.

This is the most delightful new Georgette Heyer Regency romance in several years. It is witty, full of dashing period slang, and it trifles with the affairs of several maids and men with such style and gentle irony that readers of good 'ton, ' as Miss Heyer herself might put it, will find reading it a very 'comfortable cose' indeed. -Publishers Weekly