Faro's Daughter

by Georgette Heyer

When Max Ravenscar, renowned gamester, and by his own definition, untroubled by a romantic disposition, meets Deborah Grantham, beautiful mistress of her aunt's gaming house, all his experience of risk and gambles finds him unprepared. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

• ISBN10: 1402233469
• ISBN13: 9781402233463
• Publish Date: 1 July 2008 (first published 1941)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Sourcebooks Casablanca
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

It’s gonna take me a while to get tired of the way Heyer plays out a battle of wits. Here, the bluffs get called and the stakes escalate until there’s blackmail and kidnapping and so many parts had me laughing out loud.

“He means to fight it out with me,” she said, her eyes lighting up. “Well, and so he shall!”