English country squire Charles Warde seems to have everything a man could want--a beautiful wife, a ravishing estate, and mountains of money--but his self-indulgence knows no bounds, something the Victorian society around him cannot accept...
From a refreshingly antic new voice in historical fiction, this epically entertaining, irresistibly madcap novel re-creates an ancient family whose obsessions and dysfunctions would change the world, for better or worse.
They were the last pha...