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The Talisman Ring

The Talisman Ring

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Summary

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'As incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's novels' Joanne Harris
'Triumphantly good' India Knight
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Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor his beautiful young cousin, Eustacie, share the slightest inclination to marry one another.


Yet it is Eustacie's grandfather's dying wish, made on his deathbed.

For there is no one else to look after and provide for Eustacie while his heir, Ludovic, remains a fugitive from justice after allegedly murdering a man in a dispute over a priceless family heirloom.

And so the hunt is on - to find Ludovic and bring him home as well as the Talisman Ring ...

Romance, a murder mystery, a proposed marriage of convenience, and the hunt for a golden ring lie at the heart of one of Georgette Heyer's funniest and fastest-paced romantic comedies to date.
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Readers love The Talisman Ring . . .

***** 'Fantastic rip roaring comedy- mystery- farce, with not one romance, but two!'
***** 'I love this book. I love the characters; I love the plot.'
***** 'I know I'll be rereading it whenever I need a good laugh.'
***** 'I could not put this book down.'
***** 'It's hilarious and made me laugh out loud. Definitely one of Heyer's best.'

About the author

Georgette Heyer

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.
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