These Old Shades

by Georgette Heyer

France, during the reign of Louis XV, is an age when corruption blooms luxuriantly. The Duke of Avon, known by his friends and enemies alike as Satanas-the Devil-is a notorious libertine. One evening , from a murky Parisian back-street he plucks a red-headed scamp, Leon, on the run from his brutal brother. Leon is not all he seems and Avon has an ulterior motive for bringing him into his household. Unfolding a plan of revenge against his life-long enemy, Comte de St. Vire, Avon embroils his new page-urchin turned ravishing beauty-in his schemes. "Leon" has a reformong influence, showing a fondness for swordplay and pistols and proving to be a brave, loyal and beautiful companion.

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