Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades
The notorious Duke of Avon, nicknamed ‘Satanas’, runs into a young boy in a dark Parisian back alley, and he buys Leon, a redheaded urchin with strangely familiar looks…
The notorious Duke of Avon, nicknamed ‘Satanas’, runs into a young boy in a dark Parisian back alley, and he buys Leon, a redheaded urchin with strangely familiar looks…
The free-spirited Nicole Lassiter has overcome all obstacles…until she meets Captain Derek Sutherland whose kisses leave her longing as her blood boils at his disdain.
An evil general turns on the captain of a band of mercenaries, Courtland MacCarrick, who kidnaps his noble Castilian fiancée. She despises both but must return to save her brother.
Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma Woodhouse organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
Ruined and shunned by London society, Miranda Rohan embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose until trapped in a marriage rooted in vengeance.
Now a dedicated member of the depraved Heavenly Host, Adrian Alistair Rohan loses himself in his only pleasure, and see Charlotte as a toy until better arrives.