<p>One of readers', librarians' and booksellers' most frequently requested Heyers, The Foundling features Gilly, the seventh Duke of Sale.</p> <p>A diffident young man of 24 years, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won't let him lift a finger for himself, the Duke sometimes wishes he could be a commoner. One day he decides to set out to discover whether he is "a man, or only a Duke."</p> <p>Beginning with an incognito journey into the countryside to confront a blackmailer, he encounters a runaway school boy, a beautiful but airheaded orphan, one of literature's most appealing and well-spoken comic villains, and a series of alarming and even life threatening events from which he can extricate himself only with the help of his shy and lovely fiancé?</p> <p><u>PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER: </u></p> <p><em>"Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."</em><br /> <strong>Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC</strong></p> <p><em>"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."</em><br /> <strong>Publishers Weekly</strong></p> <p><em>"Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."</em> <br /> <strong>Katie Fforde </strong></p> <p><em>"Absolute monarch of the Regency romance." </em><br /> <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong></p>