Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC.

This is an expanded edition of the collection Pistols for Two, with three additional stories not previously collected. I'd read Pistols for Two some years ago, but this made an enjoyable re-read overall. In general, I agree with the premise that romance isn't a great genre for short stories, since a convincing relationship usually takes more space to convey. Heyer's stories are more satisfactory at this length, because they aren't really romances in the modern use of the term.

Instead, these stories are amusing incidents in the lives of their principals, and to me they feel more like cozy mysteries than anything else. (And of course Heyer wrote mysteries as well as Regencies.) Many of these stories do have a twist of some kind, though usually more of a surprise to the characters in the story than to the reader.

Recommended in itself as a collection of comfort reading. If you already have Pistols for Two, and you're a Heyer completist, pick this up; if not as much of a completist, you do already have the majority of the material.

I really tried with this book as she is a well thought of without it was too date for me.