Bath Tangle [Paperback]

<p><b>"Witty, humorous, a well-constructed plot."-Candace Camp, New York Times bestselling author of <i>Suddenly</i></b></p><p><b><i>A Delightful Tangle of Affairs...</i></b><br>The Earl of Spenborough had always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter Serena was one thing, but leaving his fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham ? the one man the same daughter had jilted ? was quite another.</p><p>When Serena and her lovely young stepmother Fanny decide to move to Bath, Serena makes an odd new friend and discovers an old love. Before long, they're all entangled in a clutter of marriage and manners the likes of which even Regency Bath has rarely seen.</p><p><b>What Readers Say:</b></p><p>"Bath Tangle has all the fun and frolic that has delighted Ms. Heyer's fans for years"</p><p>"Brilliant character portrayals, wity dialogue, vivid imagery, and smooth pacing...a novel not to be missed!"</p><p>"Romance, history, nastalgia-who could ask for more? The story is...full of humorous suspense.</p><p><b>One</b></p><p>Two ladies were seated in the library at Milverley Park, the younger, whose cap and superabundance of crape proclaimed the widow, beside a table upon which reposed a Prayer Book; the elder, a Titian-haired beauty of some twenty-five summers, in one of the deep window-embrasures that overlooked the park. The Funeral Service had been read aloud, in a pretty, reverent voice, by the widow; but the Prayer Book had been closed and laid aside for some time, the silence being broken only by desultory remarks, uttered by one or other of the ladies, and the ticking of the clock upon the mantelpiece.</p><p>The library, whose curiously carved bookshelves and gilded and painted ceiling had earned it honourable mention in every Guide Book to GloucesterslÓÏ