Beauvallet: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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But even as he makes contact with Dominica's new family, Beauvallet arouses the suspicion of the French ambassador, M. It's set in Elizabethan times rather than around the Regency or Georgian eras, and involves England's conflict with Spain. Sir Nicholas Beauvallet captures Dominica and her father and proclaims that he will take them home to Spain, as Dominica has demanded. I don't think this will be one that I reread often like Frederica or The Unknown Ajax, but I still enjoyed it very much. Then most of the story is how he gets a fake identity, travels to Spain, gets captured, escapes, and what he does when he finds Dominique.

It takes place sometime along Elizabeth I reign (1558-1603 for those, like myself, needing a quick refresher); the time of the great discovers is not that far away and that of the major English privateers preying on gold-ladden gallions of the Spanish Empire is at its peak. Having plundered their own ship, Beauvallet promises to take them with him the rest of the way to Spain. Light reading cover corner creases, some edge wear with tiny splits at spine extremities, paper starting to edge tone, pencil ticks against other titles by author inside, light water staining to bottom fore corner of some later leaves. Beauvallet laughs at danger at every turn, while the intrepid (now orphaned) Dominica attempts to defend herself from a forced marriage being pushed upon her by relatives who need her money, while she worries that her love won't come in time.It drags a little in places and the language can slow the story down a bit but this doesn't spoil it. Tense with looming danger, Beauvallet is a rollicking ride of romance, sword fights, mad dashes across country, midnight escapes, scheming aunts, dastardly cousins and one very engaging, lovable hero. Urgh, she's altogether a manipulative, deceitful, little baggage and I can't see what Nick saw in her. You must remember this was during the Spanish Inquisition, so the stakes are very high if he is caught.

Really enjoyed the old-fashioned, swashbuckling appeal of this one, which reads differently then her Regency/Georgian offerings.Well worth a read, especially for Georgette Heyer fans or readers interested in the Elizabethan Age. If Heyer is channeling a slangy Austen in her Georgian/Regency romances, I would posit that she was attempting to channel the bard himself for Beauvallet. At the same time, her fears about actually placing her life and future into Nick's hands and taking that irreversible plunge into a strange new world are realistic and understandable. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Opening with battle between a great Spanish galleon and Nick Beauvallet's little Venture, this romance of Elizabethan days tells how Nick falls in love with the enemy, braves danger for her sake, wins her stubborn heart and carries her off through a thousand perils.