French Leave
After the Earl of Waverly, blue-deviled and thoroughly  intoxicated, encounters Lisette Colling escaping from a Paris  convent one night, he rashly promises to take her to her wealthy  grandpere in England. Returning to a country he had fled in  disgrace four years earlier, the earl, through a strange twist  of fate, finds himself indebted to and aided by the very man  whose wife he had once tried to seduce. Action-filled and  classically witty, this delightful story takes traditional  Regency fare a gamine heroine and an older, jaded hero (shades  of Heyer's These Old Shades!), a marriage of convenience, a  kidnapping, and a chase of grand proportions adds some  refreshingly unexpected twists, and elegantly serves it up with  charm and flair. The third in South's "Weaver" series, this romp  is sure to garner new readers and please former fans, who will  enjoy seeing the villain from The Weaver Takes a Wife  (PrinnyWorld, 1999) turn into an honorable man and a marvelous  hero without losing his rakish charm. South (Brighton Honeymoon)  lives in Saraland, AL.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.