Açıklama
Adam Deveril, is one of the Duke of Wellington's captains, and a hero at Salamanca. When his father, a crony of the Prince Regent, is killed in the hunting field, Adam became the 6th Viscount Lynton of Fontley Priory, Lincolnshire. But he returns from the Peninsula War to find his magnificent home in disrepair and his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley, but he soon realises that the drastic measure of a marriage of convenience is the only answer. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter, the quiet and decidedly plain Jenny Chawleigh.
Although Jenny Chawleigh was bright, well-mannered, and an heiress, she was no match for beautiful Julia Oversley, the love of handsome Adam Deveril's life. But Adam desperately needed money to keep his fatherless family together, and a marriage to Jenny would solve all his problems. And Jenny's father, a man of great wealth and ambition for his daughter, was only too happy to arrange a suitable match with a title for her. Adam chafes under Mr. Chawleigh's generosity, and Julia's jealous behavior upon hearing of the betrothal nearly brings them all into a scandal. But Adam didn't reckon with the Jenny nobody knew, or the unknown quality that lay hidden behind her demure and plain facade, who bring him comfort and eventually more....
Baskılar ve ISBN
- 2017
- Sourcebooks, Incorporated · İngilizce
ISBN 9781492640387 - Mar 24, 2015
- Brilliance Audio
ISBN 9781501256585 - 2011
- Sourcebooks, Incorporated · İngilizce
ISBN 9781402239007 - 2011
- Sourcebooks, Incorporated · İngilizce
ISBN 9781402269585
Künye
- Yazar
- Georgette Heyer
- İlk yayın
- 1961
- Yayınevleri
- Harlequin, Berkley Pub Group (Mm), Chivers Audio Books, Chivers Press, Thorndike Press
- Sayfa (ortalama)
- 394
- Baskı sayısı
- 36
- Kaynak
- Open Library