Friday's Child

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Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate. So when the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero can hardly contain her delight. She?ll escape life as a governess and, once they wed, Sherry can finally claim his inheritance. It seems that this marriage might solve all their problems. Back in London, Hero soon discovers the glamorous social scene and strives to make a name for herself among the right circles. But when Sherry intervenes, fearing she?ll embarrass them both, misunderstandings pile up, friendships are tested and hearts are pushed to breaking point. Can Hero ever have what her heart truly desires?Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate. So when the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero can hardly contain her delight. She?ll escape life as a governess and, once they wed, Sherry can finally claim his inheritance. It seems that this marriage might solve all their problems. Back in London, Hero soon discovers the glamorous social scene and strives to make a name for herself among the right circles. But when Sherry intervenes, fearing she?ll embarrass them both, misunderstandings pile up, friendships are tested and hearts are pushed to breaking point. Can Hero ever have what her heart truly desires?
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.