Just as she is contemplating sinking beneath the boundaries of gentility and becoming a domestic servant, her heretofore unmet aunt descends upon her. Kate Malvern is 24 and has no relations or money. "A superior Georgette Heyer work a bit darker and more serious than most of her other books, but as always there is the fast wit and a happy ending." Read more "Cousin Kate remains a classic Heyer study of character and Regency attitudes, and boasts a wonderfully warm and generous heroine who it is impossible to dislike and one of Heyer's most pleasant and agreeable heroes." Sympathetic though he may appear, will he tell her what she most needs to know… before it's too late? Kate's uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives in another.Īs bizarre events unfold and Kate begins to question the reasons for her aunt's unexpected generosity, she has no one to confide in but her cousin Philip. But the household is strange and strained. Kate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood. And a very expert job she does of it, too, complete with a remote and forbidding country house, screams in the night, dark hints of something best left unmentioned nicely leavened with wit, romance, and wonderful period slang." "Miss Heyer serves up a very different sort of tale in the same period setting, nothing less than a full-fledged Gothic. Enjoy one of only two Heyer Gothic Regency romances.
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