Max Ravenscar is worried because his young cousin has fallen in love with an older woman who works at an elegant gaming house. The woman, Deborah Grantham, is from a semi-aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times and established the gaming house to avoid utter financial ruin. Max makes the mistake of offering Miss Grantham a great deal of money in exchange for a promise that she will refuse the nephew's suit. Miss Grantham is highly offended and seeks a way to get back at Ravenscar for his insolence. Thus begins a kind of Beatrice and Benedict relationship that ultimately leads to the two falling in love.
Sometimes I am just tired of reading children's books, and feel like I need to treat myself to an adult book. That was the case this week. This is such a fun read; total literary candy. If any of you out there want a lighthearted, period romance that is relatively clean (there is some name-calling that refers to terms like "strumpet" but that is about all) and thoroughly entertaining, I don't know anyone better than Georgette Heyer. (282 p.)
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