Publisher's Synopsis
Miss Annis Wychwood is rich, beautiful and twenty-nine years of age: long past girlhood, according to the estimation of the Regency period in which she lives, and also (in her own estimation) past the age of falling in love. She lives in Bath with an elderly and foolish cousin, foisted on her by her very correct brother, Sir Geoffrey Wychwood, to lend her countenance. When she agrees to take Lucilla Carleton, an engaging seventeen-year-old, under her wing, the arrangement has an unexpected outcome, regarded as extremely undesirable by Sir Geoffrey, by Miss Wychwood's most persistent suitor, Lord Beckenham, and also by her scandalized chaperon; by almost everyone, in fact, except Lucilla's guardian, Mr Oliver Carleton, "the rudest man in London." With its delightful heroine and its outrageous but irresistible hero, this is one of Georgette Heyer's most light-hearted and spirited romances.
