Sparkling characterisation, inventive plot - Georgette Heyer is queen of the genre...

Rejected by Miss Milborne, the Incomparable, for his insteadiness of character, wild Lord Sheringhan is bent on avenging Fate.

Vowing to marry the first woman to cross his way, who should he see but Hero Wantage, the young and charmingly unsophisticated girl, who has loved him since childhood ...