You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Having won a sea battle with a Spanish galleon, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet finds that Don Manuel de Rada y Sylva, the late governor of Santiago, is aboard with his daughter Dona Dominica. She had an adventurous spirit in those early years of her marriage which is reflected in the novel she wrote in Kratovo.

Brave deeds of derring-do, espionage and love in the Elizabethan Golden age (prior to Elizabeth's war with Spain) set our English pirate Nick Beauvallet and our Spanish heroine Dona Dominica on a wild, romantic ride. The final third of the book is the best when the pace picks up and there are plenty of threats and escapes. On catching the Chevalier trying to steal his horse, Beauvallet kills him in a sword fight and assumes his identity.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In 1929, with Beauvallet, he brokered terms which gave Georgette 15% on the first 3,000 copies sold, 20% on the next 7,000 copies and 25% on all copies sold above 10,000. It is fascinating, reading her other books, not only her Regency romances or detective books (I haven't read the latter yet, but I am going to). When the ship bearing her to Spain is attacked by Sir Nicholas Beauvallet - the daring English pirate christened "Mad Nick" - Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva is at first outraged by the free and easy manners of this "villain. Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.

Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. After a sea battle with a Spanish ship, he finds himself confronted with unexpected prisoners: a wrathful Spanish lady and her dying Father. Joshua, Beauvallet's "man," is a great character and we get to see part of the story from his point-of-view.She had heard that those who fell into the clutch of the Inquisition were sometimes never heard of again. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Great major and minor characters, an improbable plot (but entertaining nonetheless) and a good pace set against the backdrop of Spain and the specter of the Inquisition. Then most of the story is how he gets a fake identity, travels to Spain, gets captured, escapes, and what he does when he finds Dominique.