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A glowing Regency love in the king of the genreBeautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her auntis stylish gambling home, should discover a way to displace himself and her aunt to respectability, ideally without taking both of two repugnant presents. One is from an older, very wealthy and somewhat corpulent she is disgusted by lord whose reputation for licentious behavior; another from the youthful, puppyish scion of the royal family whose relatives believe she's a lot of money hunter. Max Ravenscar, dad to her young suitor, involves get her down, an insult so scathing that it results in a volley of enthusiastic reprisals, increasing between them to some degree of style and fury that can just only have one finish,"My favorite historical novelist--elegant, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing.