The Reluctant Widow [Paperback]

<p><i>"Lively, amusing...done to a turn!"</i>-<em><strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong></em></p><p><em>A fateful mistake...</em></p><p>When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.</p><p><em>A momentous decision...</em></p><p>His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited guests, and murder. And Mr Carlyon won't let her leave ...</p><p><strong>What readers are saying about <em>The Reluctant Widow</em></strong><em></em></p><p>"Delightful and purely entertaining. The plot involves comedy, intrigue, espionage, cloaks and daggers, and things going bump in the night - served with a sauce of witty repartee that is the Heyer hallmark. Unforgettable."</p><p>"One of my favorites!"</p><p>"A delightfully funny and mysterious romp."</p><p>"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen." <b>- </b><em><strong>Publisher's Weekly</strong></em></p>The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921. <br><br>Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Heyer's large volume of works included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known also as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legenl#C