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Beauvallet

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First published: 1929
Pages: 233

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Georgette Heyer turned from Regency England to the Elizabethan high seas for this 1929 swashbuckler. Sir Nicholas Beauvallet, an English privateer nicknamed Mad Nick, seizes a Spanish galleon and, along with its treasure, the haughty Dona Dominica de Rada. Rather than simply carry her off, he pledges to deliver her safely home and then return within a year to marry her openly. Making good on the boast means slipping into the heart of hostile, Catholic Spain in disguise, outwitting suspicious grandees and the Inquisition alike. Fast, funny, and unabashedly romantic, it shows Heyer enjoying herself with a hero who is all bravado and a heroine sharp enough to match him.

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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer.