Author:Georgette Heyer,Matt Addis
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Witty, elegant, stylish and the best comedies of manners since Jane Austen.
'Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.When a captured galleon yields the lovely Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas which have made him Drake's equal and a favourite of the Queen. He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion's den...
© Georgette Heyer 1929 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to
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—— Margaret DrabbleA writer of great wit and style - I've read her books to ragged shreds
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