Written by Georgette Heyer ‘Sylvester’ is a thrilling Regency romance novel. Sylvester, the wealthy Duke of Salford, is given marriage. He travels to London to argue the matter with his godmother, Lady Ingham, who tells him about her granddaughter, Phoebe. However, Phoebe is hopeless to avoid marrying Sylvester and seeks help from her childhood friend, Tom Orde, to run away to London.