Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen. Publishers WeeklyA missing twinSomething is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher Kit Fancot can sense it. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared and his extravagant mothers debts have mounted alarmingly. A quick-minded heiressThe Fancot familys fortunes are riding on Evelyns marriage to the self-possessed Cressy Stavely, and her formidable grandmothers approval of the match. If Evelyn fails to meet the Dowager Lady Stavely in a few days as planned, the betrothal could be off.A fortune in the balanceWhen the incorrigible Lady Fancot persuades her son to impersonate his twin just for one night, she promises, the masquerade sets off a tangled sequence of events that engage Kits heart far more deeply than hed ever anticipated with his brothers fiancéewho might know much more about whats going on than she cares to reveal.
