Venetia

by Georgette Heyer (otherwise under Georgette Heyer)

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"Beyond my gates I make you no promises: don't trust me! Within them...I'll remember that I was bred a gentleman."

Lord Damerel found Venetia to be the most truly engaging and wittily perverse female he had encountered in all his thirty-eight years.

Venetia knew her neighbour for a gamester, a shocking rake, and a man of sadly unsteady character. It was therefore particularly provoking to find that given occasion, Damerel could make up his mind to be quite idiotically noble...

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0373771665, Mass Market Paperback)

Her beauty rivaled only by her sensibility, Venetia Lanyon is nearly resigned to spinsterhood, thanks to the enormous amount of responsibility she inherited with a Yorkshire estate, an invalid brother and the lackluster efforts of two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then she meets her neighbor, the infamous Lord Damerel, a charming rake shunned by polite society--exactly the type of man that a woman of quality should stay away from.

Though his scandalous past and deepest secrets give Venetia every reason to mistrust him, a rogue always gets what he wants. Without warning, his demanding kiss threatens to become a bachelor's undoing…and a spinster's most passionate awakening.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0441861113, Mass Market Paperback)

"Venetia is one of Miss Heyer's most charming heroines, and her romance with Lord Dameral, a confirmed rake, makes another of the author's Regency novels very good fun indeed...as usual Miss Heyer's great good humor and her wealth of information about Regency England make it a pleasure to take" - New York Herald Tribune

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400)