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Appreciate among only two Heyer Medieval Regency romances. "Miss Heyer delivers an extremely distinct kind of story within the same interval environment, nothing significantly less than a complete-fledged Medieval. And an extremely specialist work she does of it, too, complete with a distant and forbidding country-house, shouts in the night time, dim suggestions of something best left unmentioned… properly leavened with humor, love, and fantastic interval jargon." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A shocking request Kate Malvern is saved from penury by her cousin Minerva, who provides her to remain at Staplewood. However the home is unusual and strained—Kateis dad lives in their own private side, and her fine, irritable relative Torquil lives in another.