Mass-market paperback, 416 pages. Harlequin reprint, July 2003. ISBN: 978-0373835591
In Good used condition with a few spine creases and light edgewear.
Historical romance author Stephanie Laurens writes in the intro:
"Opening a Heyer means being swept away into a world of high romance, of adventures, of passions that lurk, in the best English tradition, just below a smooth and polished surface."
Justin Alastair, the coldhearted Duke of Avon, had revenge in mind as he plucked a flamehaired urchin off the Paris streets. For Avon suspected the truth about his delicately handsome page—that "Léon" was really Léonie and none other than the wicked Comte de Saint Vire's legitimate daughter, deprived of her heritage by the comte's dastardly desire for a male heir. The duke's plan was simple: parade Léonie in front of his enemy and have his adoring, innocent ward reclaim her birthright, destroying her true father in the process. But the duke hadn't expected Léonie's breathtaking transformation or the tender emotions she awoke—and he'd already set his dangerous scheme in motion...
