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Simon The Coldheart

Simon The Coldheart

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable historical adventure

Summary

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'Heyer was the master' India Knight
'If you haven't read Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store' Harriet Evans
'Brims with elegance, wit and historical accuracy' Daily Mail
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Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind.

Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour.

However, his close circle of friends know him by another name: Simon the Coldheart.

He seems to be a man incapable of love - until in Normandy he meets Lady Margaret, the so-called spitfire of Belremy.

Can she melt Simon's icy demeanour and quench his fiery rage?

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Readers love Simon the Coldheart ...


***** 'A masterpiece of genre.'
***** 'I really love this book.'
***** 'Georgette Heyer always writes a great tale, well researched and always enjoyable.'
***** 'For all my friends that like high adventure, chivalry, history, romance, and good writing, you have found what you are looking for.'
***** 'The characters are living and breathing, and each of them stands out.'

About the author

Georgette Heyer

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.
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