Synopses & Reviews
A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds.
Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph
Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family
When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family's happiness. Everyone knows she's no beauty, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl's archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation...
The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants
Unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There's simply no way he's going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia's harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.
Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen.
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WHAT READERS SAY:
I couldn't put it down, and I couldn't stop laughing
The story is brilliant, and the characters are easy to fall in love with.
I've read every novel by Georgette Heyer... this is definitely one of her best... very original and funny.
One of Georgette Heyer's more intriguing tales.
Horry is an adorable imp while Rule in the best 'Heyerian' tradition is a rogue turned lovely and you don't know whether to hit him or kiss him This is a wonderful book and is one that will be read over and over again.
Synopsis
When the most eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended.
Synopsis
Discover the Regency romance writer all your favorite authors adore:
"You're in for a treat." --NORA ROBERTS
"One of the great protagonists of the historical novel." --PHILIPPA GREGORY
"She's the original." --JULIA QUINN
"Georgette Heyer created a genre so rich that thousands of us have been mining it ever since."--LORETTA CHASE
"No one has ever matched Georgette Heyer for charm and wit."--LISA KLEYPAS
"Georgette Heyer's legacy is a gift to all of us who love the Regency period."--LORRAINE HEATH
"Georgette Heyer's Regency romances are my perennial favorites "--LENORA BELL
Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family.
When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself and tell a few convenient lies for her family's happiness. Everyone knows she's no beauty, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl's archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation...
The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants.
Unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There's simply no way he's going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia's harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife--proving theirs was no accidental marriage and gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.
Synopsis
A dashing hero, with an equally dashing rival, and a swordfight that will take readers' breath away.
Horatia Winwood is a plain girl with a stutter. When she rescues her sister from an undesired marriage to the Earl of Rule by proposing to him herself, he is thoroughly impressed by her spirit and enjoys watching her take the ton by storm. When Rule's archenemy, Sir Robert, tries to kiss Horatia, she spurns his advances, and in the ensuing scuffle loses an heirloom brooch. Horatia's brother's hare-brained scheme to recover the brooch fails, and then the Earl himself must step in, challenging Sir Robert in a swordfight that is Heyer at her most stirring.