About the book: 2019 / “Deborah never played a more desperate game than the one where love was at stake.” (Australian Women's Weekly, 1933-1982, Saturday 3 April 1937) According to Jennifer Kloester, a scholar of Georgette Heyer's work, the story was originally titled "Pharaoh's Daughter" and, as Heyer believed, that it contained the beginnings of a novel, the opening scenes became the basis of her “full-length” work “Faro's Daughter” (Faro's Daughter, 1941). However, these two plots develop completely differently. "Pharaoh" here is a card game that was extremely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Other names: "faro", "bank", "shtoss" or "stos". Pharaoh gave birth to a whole family of banking games.