The Last Gamble (Mills & Boon Historical) [Paperback]

Mary Nichols (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Mills & Boon (November 8, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263798801
• ISBN-13: 978-0263798807
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,139,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary Nichols is a well-established novelist who writes in two different genres, family sagas for Allison & Busby and historical romance for Mills & Boon. She is the author of the best selling saga, The Summer House which was on the long list for the Romantic Novelists Association Romantic Novel of the Year award 2009 and is still selling strongly. Others are The Fountain and The Kirilov Star, both published in print and as ebooks.
Of the thirty-plus books she has written for Mills & Boon most are Regency, but others have backgrounds taken from the English Civil War right through to Victorian times. The most recent form a series of linked books about crime in Georgian Society and how it was dealt with by a group of aristocratic gentlemen who fall in love while doing it. They are: The Captain's Mysterious Lady, (short listed for the Romantic Novelists' Association Love Story of the Year award 2010), The Viscount's Unconventional Bride, Lord Portman's Troublesome Wife and Sir Ashley's Mettlesome Match. These, including some of her backlist, have also been published as ebooks.
Mary Nichols is also the author of The Mother of Necton, a biography of her grandmother who was a village nurse and midwife from the early years of the 20th century until the formation of the National Health Service in 1948. It is out of print in its original hardback form published by Breedon Books in 2000, but has been updated and re-issued in paperback by The Larks Press.
You can learn more about these books and more by visiting her website at www.marynichols.co.uk

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Gamble (Mills & Boon Historial Romance), November 28, 2008

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Ketzel (Vera Cruz, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Last Gamble (Historical Romance) (Hardcover)

This book is set in England in 1820 ...

Description from the book back cover:

Miss Helen Sanghurst had had too many shocks, discovering after her father's suicide that he had gambled away her inheritance. It was some relief to find she had a guardian, even if it meant traveling from London to Scotland. Needing some peace, she was bent on traveling alone, but coach travel was risky and Helen was secretly thankful for the protection offered by Captain Duncan Blair, also traveling North. That didn't mean, however, that she was going to reveal her identity to a stranger, no matter how attractive ...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditional Regency, June 2, 2000

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John Whelan (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Last Gamble (Mills & Boon Large Print) (Hardcover)

The Last Gamble is a description of the dangers of the common stage. In 1750 London to Manchester took roughly 3 days. However with the newer high quality roads this was reduced drastically until 1810 saw the journey take only 24 hours. If the weather was favourable etc. Miss Helen Sanghurst is left destitute and thus decides to take the common stage to her new guardian. Needless to say the weather is not as favourable as it could be.

Typically Regencies make mention of the common stage but very few render such a detailed account as this book. I particularly enjoyed the eloping couple, and the other details on the journey.

Amazon.co.uk had a Mills&Boon "The Regency Collection" volume 12 ISBN 0 263 82425X which contains this book available in May 2000.

From the back of the Mills&Boon Regency Collection paperback

MARY NICHOLS The Last Gamble

Left destitute, Miss Helen Sanghurst was secretly thankful for the protection offered by Captain Duncan Blair, as she travelled north to Scotland to her new guardian...