Give All to Love

New York: St Martin's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. The long-awaited conclusion to The Sanguinet Saga, written at the urgent request of many readers who were anxious to learn the fates of some of Patricia Veryan's most memorable characters. "The Sanguinet saga (Sanguinet's Crown, The Noblest Frailty) rolls on with attention this time to devastatingly handsome Alain Devenish and his ward, Josie Storm. It takes a welter of stratagems, entrapments and collusion from a variegated household staff of eccentric retainers and overly domesticated animals before a predictable finale is reached. Familiars, good and evil, from the earlier volumes are on the scene, but it is pert Josie, the waif stolen by gypsies whom Devenish adopted four years earlier, and who now lays siege to his heart, who stirs the action. Josie has a coming-out party at which obese George IV makes an unscheduled stop and just narrowly misses imbibing some poisoned champagne. As Josie plays a teasing, flirting game to arouse Devenish, he contends with old political enemies." -- Publishers Weekly. "Throughout the trials and tribulations of Josie and Dev, the adventures are fun and the repartee is sharp. Well-drawn supporting characters fill out this lighthearted, entertaining Regency romance." -- Leslie A. Bleil, Western Michigan Univ. Library, Library Journal. Book is fine with little edge wear. The dust jacket has some bumping and wear, especially along the upper edge. There is a small closed tear at the upper front corner, taped from the inside, and another smaller tear at the back upper corner, also taped from the inside. The picture is a scan of the actual jacket.