Venetia (Regency Romances #17)

Venetia (Regency Romances #17)

Author: Georgette Heyer Listening Length: 11h 46m
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In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knew by reputation – the infamous Jasper Damerel. Before she realises...

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Damerel had placed himself between Venetia and the door, but it was immediately apparent that the precaution was unnecessary.

Aubrey was looking stormy, his thin cheeks flushed, and his rather cold gray eyes full of sparks of light.

His interest in his fellow-creatures was at the best of times perfunctory; when in the grip of anger he had none whatsoever, and would scarcely have noticed it had he found his sister in Damerel’s arms. He said, in a brittle voice, as he shut the door: ‘You’ll like to know, Venetia, that the Empress has issued a new ukase!