She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin.

She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year. Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist. And it was with great surprise that both Hero and Sherry discovered that even a marriage of convenience can turn into a love affair, under certain circumstances. But when Sherry intervenes, fearing she’ll embarrass them both, misunderstandings pile up, friendships are tested and hearts are pushed to breaking point.

From chariot races to gambling tables to exclusive drawing rooms, an exasperated Sherry followed in his wife's wake, trying to clear the air after her well-intentioned but scatterbrained escapades. But their marriage soon became a frenetic comedy of errors, as Hero tried to keep up with the fashionable and very unfamiliar society in which she now found herself. It seems that this marriage might solve all their problems.īack in London, Hero soon discovers the glamorous social scene and strives to make a name for herself among the right circles. To orphaned, pixie-ish Hero, who has secretly loved him since childhood, it seemed like a star-studded dream when dashing Lord Sheringham asked her to be his bride-for although she knew it was a marriage of convenience (his convenience), it eliminated the depressing prospect of life as a governess. But the very first woman he sees is his life-long friend Hero Wantage, a young and charmingly unsophisticated girl. Rebellious young Sherry could not gain his inheritance until he married, he leaves his mother's house and on a passionate impulse, he vowed to marry the next woman he saw. Rejected by the woman he deeply craves, the incomparable Miss Milborne, for his unsteadiness of character, wild Viscount Sheringham is bent on avenging fate and coming into his fortune.

Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer