The Unknown Ajax Author:Georgette Heyer Large type edition (normal size for today's books) Darracott Hall was the scene of much disagreeable and awkward confusion when young Hugh Darracott - the undistinguished son of the family's black sheep - emerged as the heir to the family title. Hugh was known unaffectionately as "the weaver's brat", and it seemed that the fine old family title ... more »was about to fall into as sorry a state as the decaying baronial hall.
Summoned to meet the family, Hugh founf himself in a thoroughly disagreeable and unfriendly situation - coupled with the suddn discovery of an arranged marriage with a young woman he had never seen. In desperation, Hugh decided to live down to his family's expectations of his crudeness - only to discover too late that his intended was the charming, beautiful Anthea, altogether desirable yet altogether disdainful of the obvious lout who was to be her husband.« less