Witty, elegant, stylish and the best comedies of manners since Jane Austen.

'Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.When a captured galleon yields the lovely Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas which have made him Drake's equal and a favourite of the Queen. He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion's den...

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel,The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last wasMy 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.

Also available soon in Arrow by Georgette Heyer: June 2005 A Civil Contract(ISBN 0099474441) The Spanish Bride(ISBN 009947445X) Lady of Quality(ISBN 0099474468) False Colours(ISBN 0099476339) April Lady(ISBN 0099476347) Sprig Muslin(ISBN 0099476355) October 2005 The Toll-Gate(0099476363) The Quiet Gentleman(0099476371) Pistols for Two(ISBN 009947638X) Royal Escape(ISBN 0099476398) Cousin Kate(ISBN 0099490951) Masqueraders(ISBN 0099476436) Jennifer Kloester:Georgette Heyer's Regency World(William Heinemann) January 2006 My Lord John(ISBN 0099476428) The Conqueror(ISBN 0099490927) Simon the Coldheart(ISBN 0099490943)