A delightful Regency romp in true Heyer style with a cast of wonderful characters, a very slowly simmering love story only clinched at the very end and words and phrases of Regency cant you’ll never see elsewhere.
Vernon, Marquis of Alverstoke cannot stand to be bored and eventually, everything and everyone of the women he has known—and he’s known many—bores him. Even his designated heir, who he considered a blockhead, bores him. His sisters want him to give a ball for their daughters’ come outs, but he wants nothing to do with it. That is, until a certain young woman, a country miss and a distant cousin named Frederica Merriville enters his life.
Frederica has a beautiful younger sister, Charis, for whom she wants to secure a brilliant match so, of course, she pleads her case to Alverstoke. Frederica is like no other woman he has ever met. Witty, argumentative and not exactly taken with him, she makes such a strong impression the Marquis agrees to help launch not only Charis but Frederica, too, into society. She’s the one woman who does not bore him to death.
Soon, Alverstoke is embroiled in the antics of Frederica’s young brothers and their dog. More adventures than the Marquis has had in a long time. And despite his constant disagreements with their older sister, he finds he likes spending time with her.
Regency escapism at its best, this will have you watching great air balloons, chasing dogs and learning about the new technology of steam engines.
Not much romance but they do get together in the
end.
All of it makes for great fun!
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