Venetia - Georgette Heyer

`I allow you all the vices you choose to claim-indeed, I know you for a gamesmaster a shocking rake and a man of sadly unsteady character!' In all her twenty-five years, lovely Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate, nor enjoyed the attentions of any but her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knows by reputation- the infamous Lord Damerel-and before she knows better, is egging on a libertine whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years.