![]() ![]() Kate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood. Georgette Heyer, bestselling Queen of Regency Romance, invites readers to an extraordinary Gothic tale of love, mystery, and intrigue. before it's too late?Ĭousin Kate remains a classic Heyer study of character and Regency attitudes, and boasts a wonderfully warm and generous heroine who it is impossible to dislike and one of Heyer's most pleasant and agreeable heroes.Ī superior Georgette Heyer work a bit darker and more serious than most of her other books, but as always there is the fast wit and a happy ending. Sympathetic though he may appear, will he tell her what she most needs to know. But the household is strange and strainedKate's uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives in another.Īs bizarre events unfold and Kate begins to question the reasons for her aunt's unexpected generosity, she has no one to confide in but her cousin Philip. ![]() And a very expert job she does of it, too, complete with a remote and forbidding country house, screams in the night, dark hints of something best left unmentioned nicely leavened with wit, romance, and wonderful period slang. Miss Heyer serves up a very different sort of tale in the same period setting, nothing less than a full-fledged Gothic. ![]() Enjoy one of only two Heyer Gothic Regency romances. ![]()
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