The Reluctant Widow

Name: The Reluctant Widow
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by Georgette Heyer

Book 7 in the Regency Romances series.

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In early 1813, the governess Elinor Rochdale enters the wrong carriage and is carried to the home of Lord Carlyon. There she is persuaded to marry Carlyon’s dying cousin, an arrangement intended to keep a neglected estate out of the hands of an unwanted heir. Within hours Elinor becomes both bride and widow.

Her inheritance draws her into a concealed struggle involving secret papers, a French agent and a house that appears designed for Gothic terror. With Carlyon and his irrepressible brother Nicky, Elinor must separate genuine danger from theatrical alarm while confronting a conspiracy rooted in the Napoleonic Wars.