Black Sheep

by Georgette Heyer

Ebook, 2008

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The title character is Miles Calverleigh, who was sent in disgrace to India years ago by his straitlaced family after an excess of youthful exploits. Now he's back in England and soon encounters Abigail (please, call her "Abby"), a single woman of the advanced age of 28. She's always chafed against

her family's devotion to society's conventions, but she dearly loves her elder sister Selina and the 17-year-old niece they've raised together after her parents died. But Fanny has fallen in love with a fortune-hunting charmer and Abby seems to be the only one who realizes it his true motives. In her efforts to put the kibosh on the budding romance, she tries to enlist the help of Miles, who turns out to be the uncle of the fortune hunter. Miles has spent his entire life utterly uninterested in lifting a finger to help anyone, but has Abby's unconventional nature pierced his armor? And can she find true happiness with a black sheep without becoming one herself?

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Classic Literature. Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML: Bestselling author Georgette Heyer, the Queen of Regency Romance, proves once again that love can always triumph. Abigail Wendover, 'on the shelf' at twenty-eight...is determined to prevent her pretty and high-spirited niece from becoming attached to a good-looking town-beau and an acknowledged fortune-hunter of shocking reputation. Unfortunately, that means a confrontation with his scandalous uncle. Miles Calverleigh, the black sheep of his family, is enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, has a scandalous past, and is not at all inclined toward good manners. Miles turns out to be the most provoking creature Abigail has ever met�??with a disconcerting ability to throw her into giggles at quite the wrong moment... Could he be Abby's most important ally in keeping her niece from a most unfortunate match? Praise for Georgette Heyer: "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."�??Publishers Weekly "A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds."�??Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph "Her books are always bestsellers, but none has dominated the rest of the field quite like this one."�??Sunday… (more)