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A Debt of Honour

by Fenella-Jane Miller



      When Eliza Fox’s fiancé and father die within a short time of each other she is devastated, and throws herself into managing the estate.  She knows that she is unlikely to meet another man who wants to marry her as she stands nearly six feet tall in her stockings.  But she has not reckoned with her reckless brother Edmund gambling away the entire estate, and to the villainous Lord Wydale.  Neither has she reckoned on the lengths the wicked lord will go to in order to get his hands on the estate, or that he has a handsome, kindly and very tall friend.

This is a story where the protagonists fall in love remarkably quickly, but then have many obstacles to overcome before they can find happiness.  Fletcher Reed is the perfect antidote to more arrogant heroes, while his erstwhile friend is truly villainous and beyond redemption.  Eliza makes for a pleasantly sensible leading lady, and pages turn like lightening as I wondered what was going to happen to them next.  Ms. Miller is one of my favorite Regency authors, balancing the frothy, light style with some real drama and evoking the atmosphere, manners and mores perfectly.  Just the thing for any Regency reader.

The Book

Robert Hale
29 February 2008
Hardback
0709084978 / 9780709084976
Regency Romance / Early 19th century / Essex, England
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2008
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