Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family a cynical outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past
- that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny's unwise liaison with his nephew! But Abby adept at managing her sweet silly sister Selina her lively niece & the host of her admirers among Bath's circumscribed society has less success in managing her own unruly heart. The Black Sheep is a sweeping spiritual novel that shows how Geogette Heyer became the most successful & popular writer of her generation & configures to be loved by a huge readership today.