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Georgette Heyer
APRIL LADY 1/1957 ISBN:033002423X Young beautiful, impetuous, Lady Helen Cardross had collected quite a basket of little white lies in her efforts to help those less fortunate than herself...The new Lady Cardross so filled her days with fashion and frivolity that the Earl began to wonder whether she had indeed only married him for his money. And now, Nell dared not tell him the truth . .
ARABELLA 1949 ISBN:0373835558 To Arabella Tallant,daughter of a provincial minister, the invitation to stay with her London godmother was like the key to Heaven, for in addition to living in the glamorous city, Arabella might even find a suitable husband there...On the way an encounter with Mr. Beaumaris, leads her to pose as an heiress anxious to avoid suitors..
BATH MISS short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
BATH TANGLE 1955 ISBN:0330202375 Never were there two young women less alike than the gentle Lady Fanny and the volatile Lady Serena. They were, however, good friends - Fanny, recently widowed and some years the younger was, in fact, Serena's stepmother. To compound the confusion, Serena's inheritance was, by the terms of her father's will, controlled by the stern Marquis of Rotherham - the man she had just jilted! The two girls decided to take a house in Bath, where Serena hoped the gay social life would temper their grief. But they could hardly avoid the romantic entanglements for which the spa was famous, thereby raising the eyebrows of their peers and the thundering disapproval of the Marquis, who had his own plans for Fanny and Serena - particularly Serena....
BEAU WYNDHAM 1941 Originally published as THE CORINTHIAN 1940 ISBN:0330102850 Beset by marriage-minded relatives, Sir Richard Wyndham nearly plunged into a dutiful betrothal. But just in time, lovely, impulsive Penelope Creed climbed out a window - and into his arms. Dressed as a boy, Pen was escaping her own demanding relatives, and wanted only to return to her childhood estate. Sir Richard refused to permit a young lady to travel unescorted, no matter what her garb. But upon discovering his charge meant to ride a mail coach, the sophisticated lord nearly changed his mind! Still, before long, marriage wasn 't looking quite the evil it had been - if he had the right bride in his arms...
THE BLACK MOTH ISBN: 330200925 Jack Carstares, now rightful Earl of Wyncham, returns to the England he left in disgrace 7 long years ago. Still bound by the rigid code of the 18th century, Jack is determined not to claim his title and turns highwayman....Lovely Diana Beauleigh was under siege. The notorious Duke of Andover meant to have her--if not with her assent, then by force. But Diana was not about to surrender her virtue. She had already lost her heart to the man who rescued her from the Duke--a handsome mysterious highwayman.
BLACK SHEEP 1966 ISBN:033002230X With her high-spirited intelligence and good looks, Abigail Wendover was a most sought-after young woman. But of all her high-placed suitors, there was none Abigail could love. Miles Calverleigh had no regard for the polite conversations of Regency society. His cynicism, his morals, his manners appalled Abigail. Yet she was irresistibly drawn to his knowing smile. But how could she persuade her wealthy, respectable family to accept this unconventional, unsuitable man?
CHARITY GIRL 1970 ISBN:0370014316 The Viscount Desford thought he had seldom seen a more pathetic picture. Not only was Cherry Stean's countenance woebegone, but the shoes and the hem of the duffle cloak she wore were sadly muddied. She looked to be hot, tired, and despairing...He takes her to stay with Lady Henrietta while he tries to help the girl. People have been thinking for years it was time for him to marry, but no one thought he'd settle for a runaway nobody....
A CIVIL CONTRACT 1961 ISBN:0330235192 Although Jenny Chawleigh was bright, well-mannered, and an heiress, she was no match for Julia Oversley, the love of handsome Adam Deveril's life. But Adam desperately needed money to keep his fatherless family together, and a marriage to Jenny would solve all his problems. And Jenny's father, a man of great wealth and ambition for his daughter, was only too happy to arrange a suitable match for her. But Adam didn't reckon with the Jenny nobody knew, or the unknown quality that lay hidden behind her demure and plain facade . . .
A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
THE CONVENIENT MARRIAGE 1934 ISBN:0373834454 Upon deciding it was time to be married, the Earl of Rule made the logical - and appropriate - choice. Naturally the lady agreed. But then her impetuous, charming sister Horatia came up with another plan. Let Lizzie marry her true love - an untitled suitor - while Horatia herself would wed the earl! Her forwardness left the family aghast - and the earl intrigued. Horatia might not be the most suitable bride, but Rule knew he would never be bored!
THE CORINTHIAN 1940 ISBN:0330102850 Beset by marriage-minded relatives, Sir Richard Wyndham nearly plunged into a dutiful betrothal. But just in time, lovely, impulsive Penelope Creed climbed out a window - and into his arms. Dressed as a boy, Pen was escaping her own demanding relatives, and wanted only to return to her childhood estate. Sir Richard refused to permit a young lady to travel unescorted, no matter what her garb. But upon discovering his charge meant to ride a mail coach, the sophisticated lord nearly changed his mind! Still, before long, marriage wasn 't looking quite the evil it had been - if he had the right bride in his arms...
COTILLION 1953 ISBN:1560549505 When Kitty Charing's guardian wills her his vast fortune--on the condition that she marry one of his nephews--she finds herself beset by suitors. Kitty refuses the reluctant rector, dismisses the dense Lord, and agrees to a betrothal to the dandified Freddy--but only to make Jack, a reckless roue with a reputation among the ladies, jealous. But jealousy is a double-edged sword, and when a far-from-reformed Jack finally offers for Kitty, Freddy discovers a rougher side to his rarified nature. And Kitty finds a husband more precious than the plumpest inheritance. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
COUSIN KATE 1968 ISBN:0330026844 Drawn into a life of luxury at a secluded country estate, a spirited orphan finds herself the pawn in an insidious marriage scheme...Bright, beautiful and penniless, Kate Malvern was unexpectedly swept into the lap of luxury by her long-lost aunt. Kate's only obligation was to spend time with her charming but temperamental cousin. Though the emotional undercurrents soon made Kate uneasy, who could she turn to? Only compelling, handsome Philip Broome - a man who also had a darker side. Torn between her aunt's wishes, her cousin's attention and her own growing feelings, Kate wondered what secrets she would next uncover...
DEVIL'S CUB 1934 ISBN:0854561250 When lovely Mary Challoner had practiced her bold deception upon the hot-blooded, fiery-tempered young Marquis of Vidal--substituting herself for the young wench he had planned to carry off to France--she had little notion he would grimly have her play out the charade. Now he had left her, and she was alone, prey to the intrigues of glittering, heartless 18th century Paris. Only one person could rescue her--the Marquis himself. But how could even the sudden flowering of her love ever bridge the terrible gap between them?
THE DUEL short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
FALSE COLOURS 1963 ISBN:0330237632 A charming, sensitive young lady unwittingly throws twin brothers into a hopeless muddle of love....It is the summer of 1817. The Earl of Denville has been dead for fifteen months and has left behind a tricky state of affairs at the family seat of Ravenhurst. His volatile widow has large secret debts; her twenty-four-year-old sons, Evelyn and Kit, are identical twins, but that is the least of their problems, for the old Earl, who had a low opinion of Evelyn's stability, has firmly placed the estate in the hands of a sole trustee, the inflexible Uncle Henry. The imbroglios that follow spring from the twins' urgent need to rescue their entrancing but wholly irresponsible mother from her financial doldrums.
FARO'S DAUGHTER 1941 ISBN:0553234447 Max Ravenscar regarded all eligible females with indifference, preferring horses, cockfighting or cards. When he learns that his cousin Adrian, Lord Mablethorpe, intends to marry Deborah Grantham who graces her aunt's gaming establishment, Max thinks it will be an easy matter to buy off the fair charmer....
THE FOUNDLING 1948 ISBN:0373835493 Despite his fortune, Gilly, the young Duke of Sale, was bored. Disenchanted with the "proper" world, he longed to see how the rest of the world lived. He was resolved to sample the robust life of the Regency, but the question was: how? Fortunately, Cousin Matthew's indiscretion furnished the perfect opportunity for Gilly to plunge into a rollicking, bawdy world with footpads, street urchins, duels, chases, and Belinda--whose serene beauty made her a perfect decoy for a ruthless blackmailer . . .
FREDERICA 1965 ISBN:055324132X Frederica Merrivale has come to London for the social season, in order to give her beautiful younger sister Charis a chance to make a good marriage. Frederica herself, a witty charmer, is feared to beyond marriageable age at twenty-four.But they find themselves both besieged by more suitors than they can handle!
FRIDAY'S CHILD 1946 ISBN:006100166X The dashing young Lord Sheringham--known to other young bloods as Sherry--was in a towering rage. He had to marry in order to come into his fortune, and he swore to take the first woman he saw. She chanced to be Hero Wantage, an ill-treated and neglected orphan in a neighboring household. Her tearful story reminded him of his intentions, and he bundled her off to London where Hero--soon to be nicknamed Kitten--proved to be a quick and almost too apt pupil in the strange and sophisticated ways of society.
FULL MOON short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
THE GRAND SOPHY 1950 ISBN:0061004669 When Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy went off to Brazil on a diplomatic mission, he entrusted his 18-year-old-daughter Sophia to the care of his sister, Lady Ombersley. From the moment Sophy arrived, it was clear that she was no ordinary girl. She was The Grand Sophy -- impulsive, direct, fearless, and a scandal to the proper society of London. But Sophy's energy, wit, and courage revitalized the entire family, especially her steely cousin, Charles Rivenhall. Saddled with the responsibility of playing his father's debts and keeping his younger brothers and sisters out of trouble, he was engaged to a pious and prim young woman -- until Sophy came along.
HAZARD short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
A HUSBAND FOR FANNY short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
LADY OF QUALITY 1972 ISBN:0370014790 To be 29, a golden beauty and yet regarded as a hopeless spinster by all. Bath....Annis sealed her unwedded doom by sponsoring spoiled young Lucilla Carleton's intro into society, and respectable Bath matrons shook capped heads in horror... The only exception is Lucilla's guardian, Mr. Oliver Carleton
THE MASQUERADERS ISBN:0449232530 Temporarily abandoned by their scapegrace father, Prudence and Robin Lacey are forced to masquerade as the opposite sex to avoid capture by their political enemies. Prue makes a devilishly handsome young man and her brother Robin is equally beguiling as her "sister." This, however, makes for some dangerous entanglements when Prue, as Mr. Merriot, falls in love with Sir Anthony, and her brother, posing as Miss Merriot, finds his heart struck by the lovely heiress, Letty Grayson . . .
NIGHT AT THE INN short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
THE NONESUCH 1962 ISBN:0330244213 Sir Waldo Hawkridge was rarely refused anything - and particularly not by unmarried young women! Because of his name, his fortune and his looks, he'd always been relentlessly pursued - and ruthlessly determined to remain single. But then Sir Waldo came across not one but two women who captured his interest - but only Miss Ancilla Trent had the potential to engage his heart....
PINK DOMINO short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
PISTOLS FOR TWO 1960 ISBN:0330247719 Miss Marianne Treen wished at times that she had not grown up to be quite so beautiful a young lady. For when she had been an ugly duckling of a girl, her two dearest childhood companions, Jack Frith and Tom Crawley, had presented no problems. Now, however, those two hot-blooded blades were close on her heels and at each other's throats in competition for her. And if that were not difficult enough, Sir Gavin Kilham, the most elegant lord in London, arrived to turn the duel for her heart into a game that he meant to win with no mischief barred . . .
PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428 Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; and affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn: all the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these eleven stories of the Regency.
THE QUIET GENTLEMAN 1951 ISBN:0061003948 The new Earl of St. Erth returned from glory at Waterloo- to a nest of intrigue at his ancestral home. Vexed by his pompous stepmother and reckless half-brother, Gervase never expects to be attacked by a mysterious assailant -or to be rescued by such an enchanting young woman. Drusilla has no intention of letting any harm befall the dashing lord she secretly loves.
REGENCY BUCK 1935 Judith Taverner had captivated all London society. A bevy of elegant bachelors swarmed about her, vying for her favors... Once Judith had looked on the Earl of Worth as a protector and something for more. But now she was prey to a chilling suspicion. Judith, heiress to a great fortune, was trying to discover the difference between a man's love and a man's greed.....
THE RELUCTANT WIDOW 1946 ISBN:0451171713 Elinor thought she was entering Highnoons as a governess but the gentleman was seeing a wife- not for himself but for the profligate cousin who now lay on his deathbed. So in a short span of a few hours she became a bride- and a wealthy widow. Then Elinor found herself drawn to the aloof man who treated her with nothing more than cousinly respect.....
SNOWDRIFT short story in PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
THE SPANISH BRIDE 1940 ISBN:0749305150 The true story of Juana, a convent raised aristocratic beauty who braved the front lines of war to be with the man she loved...April 1812, the siege of Badajos. From the moment Juana looked into the eyes of Harry Smith, the dare-devil officer in rifle-green, she knew they were made for each other. It was a love that took the child-bride from the battlefields of Spain to London and the agony of Waterloo.
SPRIG MUSLIN 1956 ISBN:0099416247 Beautiful, charming, and hopelessly in love, young Amanda left home--fleeing her grandfather and his objections to her engagement to an impoverished young officer. On her own, the willful, flirtatious Amanda soon crossed paths with the dashing but cynical Sir Gareth, an older man with romantic woes of his own. And--as her unlikely and unwilling protector--he soon found himself entangle in a complicated tapestry of events woven by the irrepressible Amanda.
SYLVESTER, THE WICKED UNCLE 1957 ISBN:0425106292 She cast him as the villain of her book- but love made her triumph bittersweet.
THE TALISMAN RING ISBN:0373834470 It all began with the dying whim of that old tyrant, Lord Lavenham, whose last wish was to see his nephew, Sir Tristram, married to his capricious French refugee granddaughter, Eustacie. But Eustacie bristled at the idea and claimed she would rather embrace Mme. Guillotine than make such a marriage. She ran away in the night. To have an adventure, as she put it. And was captured by a smuggler. A very handsome smuggler. It was all wonderfully mysterious. Then she discovered the handsome smuggler bore the same name as her grandfather and the mystery deepened. Now Eustacie's adventure began in earnest
THESE OLD SHADES 1926 ISBN:0449240002 Lovely, titian-haired Leonie, ward of the dashing Duke of Avon, had all Paris at her feet. Yet her true origins remained shrouded in mystery. And neither the glittering soirees nor the young aristocrats who so ardently courted her could still the questions that plagued her young heart. What was her mysterious parentage? Just one man held the secret, the one she feared most in the world--the iron-willed Compte de Saint-Vire, deadly enemy of the Duke. He would give her the answer--for a price. But could she betray the man she secretly, helplessly loved? And could this proud young beauty bear to face the truth when it came?
TO HAVE THE HONOUR PISTOLS FOR TWO and Other Stories 1960 ISBN:0099279428
THE TOLL-GATE 1954 ISBN:051507375X Planning to settle down after a brave military career, Captain John Staple searches for the ideal bride to complement his earldom and finds orphaned Nell Stornaway, an outspoken beauty who is an unwitting pawn in a treacherous scheme.
THE UNKNOWN AJAX 1959 ISBN:0061004456 Hugh Darracott, the son of the family's back sheep and the new heir to Darracott Hall, struggles to ensure the respectability of his name and to restore the title and crumbling baronial mansion he has inherited, as he fights to overcome his past and confronts his unfriendly family
VENETIA 1958 ISBN:3499120038 In love with an improper stranger... At twenty-five, Venetia Lanyon was far too close to spinsterhood to reject the attentions of the impeccable Mr. Edward Yardley. But the headstrong beauty vowed she'd rather die than marry a man she didn't love - especially since meeting her long-absent neighbor, the scandalous Lord Damerel. He was quite the most dashing, yes dangerous, man she had ever known. And now, unwillingly, she was in his debt, tempted to cast her good name and reputation to the winds of fate!
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