This is one of my all time favorites. It is different from most typical regencies. The story starts when the heroine, Jane, is 6 and the hero, David, is 7. They grow up together and fall in love but she is the daughter of a lord and he is a stable lad. Eventually, she must go to London for a season (she is 17, he is 18) but they both scheme to get back together. She comes home from London with an unwanted suitor who soon tries to kill David. I don't want to spoil it for new readers so I'll stop there.


This book has some of my favorite quotes. Example: David tells everyone that he has agreed to give up Jane. Jane's aunt by marriage is talking to her husband and another lord about separating the two while Jane and David are in another room.

"Those two children love each other, my lord. They love each other quite intensely, as a matter of fact. If we refuse to allow them to marry with our blessing, they will marry without it. Or they will simply go away and live together. They will both be ruined socially and it will have been our fault."

The Marquis looked at his wife, respect in his eyes. "What do you think he is saying to her now?" he asked.

"Whatever it is," Anne replied matter of factly. "you can be sure it isn't goodbye."

Trust me. Read it.

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Any regency that has a heroine so blunt and relentlessly single-minded that you think she must have Asperger's syndrome can't be all bad. ( )

Any regency that has a heroine so blunt and relentlessly single-minded that you think she must have Asperger's syndrome can't be all bad. ( )

Any regency that has a heroine so blunt and relentlessly single-minded that you think she must have Asperger's syndrome can't be all bad. ( )