A Civil Contract [The Novels of Georgette Heyer]

The hero of A CIVIL CONTRACT is Adam Deveril, sixth Viscount Lynton of Fontley Priority, Lincolnshire, one of the duke of Wellington's captains. When his father, a crony of the Prince Regent, is killed in the hunting field, Adam returns to England to find his family on the brink of financial disaster and his beautiful home heavily mortgaged and in a shocking stated or repair. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a notable addition to Miss Heyer's gallery of characters. For Mr. Chawleigh is a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes fixed firmly on a suitable (by which he means noble) match for his only daughter, Jenny. #28 in Heinemann's, "The Novels of Georgette Heyer". 5" x 7.5", 394 pp.