The Toll-Gate
By: Georgette Heyer ; with a forward by Christina Dodd
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Don Mills, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780373774128
Subjects: Missing persons; Man-woman relationships; Abandoned children; Fiction
Description: "It takes a lot to unnerve Captain John Staple, a man with a reputation for audacious exploits and whimsical nonsense. But when he finds himself mired on the moors--on a dark and stormy night, no less!--John hardly expects to find a young, frightened boy who's been left alone to tend a toll gatehouse. Never one to pass up an adventure, John decides to take up residence in Derbyshire as a gatekeeper until he can find the lad's father. But as John investigates the suspicious disappearance, he begins to unravel a far more complex mystery. And at its center is a woman--the very one to tame John's reckless spirit"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: "Historical romance"--Spine.