Title: Cressida
Description: For six years, beautiful, witty, and enchanting Cressida Calverton had been dazzling the eyes and dashing the hopes of England's most eligible lords. And for six years Cressida had been harboring the painful memory of Captain Deverell Rossiter, who had shattered her own romantic dreams by bewilderingly breaking off their engagement. Now Rosister was back in England with a renown gallantry won on foreign battlefields, a fortune gained in spectacular gambles and a notoriety in love that shock society. And now Cressida was determined to show this heartbreaker that she was no longer a girl to be dangled on a string, but a woman with courage and claws who was more than a match for any man. Clare Darcy delightfully demonstrates why she has been named "the heiress to Georgett Heyer
Subjects: Fiction, general