The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer

This is a Regency Romance in the classic style (not a "bodice ripper"). I love Georgette Heyer. Well, I love her romances. Her mysteries are entertaining, if unexceptional, and her histories are rather dry--or at least I find them so--but her romances are witty and sweet and perfect.

This book is about the arranged marriage between the Earl of Rule and Elizabeth Winwood. Except Lizzy is in love with a solider and doesn't really want to marry the earl. She knows she must, though, to save her family from financial distress. Enter Horatia ("Horry"), Lizzy's much younger sister, who decides to offer herself to Rule in place of  Elizabeth, thereby saving Elizabeth from a loveless marriage and enabling her to marry her soldier. Horry, we are told, has glowering eyebrows and a stutter, but is also entirely engaging. Will Rule accept her offer?

This is not one of my favorite Georgette Heyers, but it is still charming and entertaining. Somehow all of the Heyer ladies are captivating and all the men romantic and masterful. I always enjoy her romances.