Publisher's Synopsis
This book, Georgette Heyer's sixth, was an instant bestseller when first published and has remained one of her most popular tales. France during the reign of Louis XV is an age when corruption blooms luxuriantly. The Duke of Avon, known by friends and enemies alike as Satanas - the Devil - is a notorious libertine. One evening, from a murky Parisian back-street he plucks a red-headed scamp, Leon, on the run from his brutal brother. But Leon is not all that he seems and Avon has an ulterior motive for bringing him into his household. Unfolding a plan of revenge against his life-long enemy, Comte de St. Vire, Avon embroils his new page - urchin turned ravishing beauty - in his schemes. "LEON" has a reforming influence, showing a fondness for swordplay and pistols and proving to be a brave, loyal and beautiful companion.
