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If you like the madcap minx that Heyer so cleverly placed on the Regency fiction stage, then you will adore Miss Sydney Lattimore and her hilarious adventures.

This is the story of two sisters of undeniably good breeding, living on a financial knife edge and facing a bleak future. In an attempt to sort out her family's woes, Sydney falls in with some notorious moneylenders and card cheats. All of this is to raise the necessary cash for a season for her beautiful elder sister, Winifred.

Viscount Mayne, heir to the Duke of Mayne, meets Sydney on the doorstep of said moneylenders on an errand of mercy to dig his younger brother out of gambling troubles. Following a misunderstanding, these two commence a series of adventures through the ensuing season as Mayne plucks Sydney out of one near scandal after another.

Add in the usual Metzger complement of servants, animals, villains and eccentric family members and her tried and tested formula scores a real hit.

I really enjoyed this old title - read in one sitting and much chuckled over. The chapter titles are alone worth the price of admission! Except for failing to get her ducal family correctly titled, this story is nearly perfect. If you like genuine farce told with a light hand, then this is highly recommended.

If you like classic Regency, this is a great little taste of the humor and intriguing quality of the writing of Barbara Metzger. I have enjoyed reading her work over the years and am glad to see her earlier work is coming to the Kindle.

If you've been lucky enough to read all of Georgette Heyer (available from Sourcebooks in paperback and kindle), you'll howl over Metzger's fond tribute to those intrepid heroines of Heyer, who save themselves while falling in love with the wrong man. This tale of a. Debt-gone-wrong will pass several happy hours.

I haven't laughed so much at a romance book in years. I could picture the ball that turned into a brawl as a movie scene with someone like Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It would have people rolling in the aisles. How anyone but I love Lucy could get themselves into such predicaments, I just don't know. The book never slows down.

Sydney Lattimore acts so stupid and so impossible for the time period the story is not even funny. It's irritating.
I just cannot imagine that a female like this could attract attention of any gentleman at all.