![]() ![]() With a reputation as a ne’er do well and cad, he is rumoured to have squandered his fortune and left a trail of broken hearts, and broken women behind him. ![]() And then into her life gallops Jasper Damerel, lord of the nearby Priory. Her father refused to let her come out at Court, she has, since his death and her elder brother’s enrolment in the army, been keeping house with her younger brother and managing the affairs of Undershaw, the family home. Venetia Lanyon has never made it further than York and Harrogate. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knew by reputation – the infamous Jasper Damerel.īefore she realises it, Venetia is encouraging a man whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years. ![]() Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. ![]()
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