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This cute Cotillion fic kicked off an urge in my heart to reread Cotillion, one of my all-time favorite Georgette Heyer books; the other one one of my all-time favorite Heyers is The Talisman Ring, which I reread towards the end of last year for Yuletide purposes.

Although one of these has lots of enthusiastically dramatic plot and the other has hardly any plot at all, the thing they have both got in common is that they are deeply about the joy of Being in Cahoots. In The Talisman Ring, two charming melodramatic idiots decide that they are going to THWART A VILLAIN by FINDING A LOST HIDDEN TREASURE while HIDING FROM THE COPS and have the good fortune to attract two sensible older people into their orbit who discover that actually being involved in lost hidden treasure shenanigans while hiding from the cops is a really fun time. In Cotillion, two extremely normal and ordinary idiots decide that they are going to fake an engagement in order that one of them can have an excuse to come do London tourism, and discover that by the power of teamwork, supporting each other and believing in themselves they can both operate with two brain cells and triumphantly solve everybody marital problems.

( more about Cotillion, technically spoilery if you don't want to know in advance who ends up married to whom )