A Civil Contract A Civil Contract
21 - Regency Romances

A Civil Contract

    • 4.4 • 42 Ratings
    • $16.99
    • $16.99

Publisher Description

Georgette Heyer, the bestselling Queen of Regency Romance, brings her extraordinary plots and characterizations to an unexpected and delightful marriage of convenience love story.

Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife?

Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself—but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter, the quiet and decidedly plain Jenny Chawleigh.

Praise for Georgette Heyer:

Georgette Heyer was one of the great protagonists of the historical novel in the post-war golden age of the form. Her regency romances are delightful light reading, and her historical novels such as The Spanish Bride and An Infamous Army demonstrate how fiction and history can work together to make a valuable literary form.—Philippa Gregory, bestselling author

"A five-star job of sheerly delightful romance writing."—Chicago Tribune

GENRE
Romance
RELEASED
2011
November 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Sourcebooks
SELLER
Sourcebooks, Inc.
SIZE
1.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Archangel Beth ,

A practical pairing

1: There are a few comments that do not age well, but were presumably of the era to some extent. Or at least the presumed social station. (An unkind comment likening someone to a POC, & a glancing disinclination to go to a Jewish banker.) Be warned; the lines gave me a pang.

2: If you didn't know before, this is a story of falling for the partner in a mercenary marriage of convenience. Now you know! It being a romance, there will be a HEA.

3: I had to look up the history around the Battle of Waterloo because I am terrible for dates. Look it up ahead of time, and what Rothschild did, the wretch. Though it is, well, spoilers.

GeeGee711 ,

Better than Austen!

I have read half of Heyer’s novels and they are all five star. As soon as I finish one, I start another.

tulajane ,

Possibly her best book

I have read and re-read this book many times and it never fails to delight. These are Heyer's most realistic characters and most charming -- Mr. chawleigh and Aunt Nassington are particular favorites. A must read for any Regency fan.

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