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Sir Waldo Hawkridge, leading Corinthian in London society, is known as the Nonesuch — as there is none such as awesome as he. Already obscenely rich, he inherits another estate, Broom Hall, from a reclusive uncle and conceives a scheme to set up the second of his philanthropic orphanages in the
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midst of the Yorkshire countryside. He travels there to set things in motion, stirring up what passes for the local society scene and losing his heart to a governess who has the misfortune of trying to tame 17-year-old beauty and heiress Tiffany Wield, one of the wildest, most spoiled, most selfish, most insufferable creatures that Heyer ever devised — and she's created some doozies. Show Less
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Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as The Nonesuch for his athletic prowess - believes he is past the age of falling in love. But when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications.
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1962