In the mood for a book featuring an elegant rake, rapiers, mysterious highwayman, a spunky heroine, an Irish romantic, adventure and misadventure? You'll find all that between the covers of this classic example of Georgette Heyer's Regency romances. An honorable and a dishonorable peer of the realm contest each other for the love of a resourceful and intelligent young lady who may prove to be more than a handful for both of them.

There's nothing on these pages that will tax your mind but there's plenty here to divert it and to delight the reader who enjoys period fiction and novels of manners that are peppered with occasional derring-do. Not too sugary nor too spicy but acerbic enough to add the perfect touch of tartness that keeps this novel light yet avoids being "light-weight"-- a tasty summer niblet of fiction. ( )