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Discover the Regency romance writer all your favorite authors adore:"Youre in for a treat." - NORA ROBERTS"One of the great protagonists of the historical novel." - PHILIPPA GREGORY"Shes 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 Heyers legacy is a gift to all of us who love the Regency period." - LORRAINE HEATH"Georgette Heyers Regency romances are my perennial favorites!" - LENORA BELLHoratia 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 familys happiness. Everyone knows shes no beauty, but shell do her best to keep out of the Earls way and make him a good wife. And then the Earls 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. Theres simply no way hes going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatias 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.
About the Author
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.
