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REVIEW: Yours in Haste by Roberta Major and Sarah Olds

Dear Ladies,

Georgian set historical books make my heart pitter patter. When I find a book description that mentions it’s set then, much of the work of making me want to read it is already done. Throw in some daring do and a little swashbuckling and I drool in anticipation. Mix in a little pathos of a lost cause and I’m set. But with all this going for it, I’ll be honest and say some books just make you want to keep read them regardless of any problems you might encounter along the reading way. This is one of them.

“So much has happened to us both in these few short months! We are very far indeed, from those days of idyllic innocence in Oxfordshire.”

Tell me about it. The two cousins, Fraser and Catherine, both young, well born Englishwomen - though Fraser’s mother was from the wilds of Highland Scotland - will go from sweet, carefree innocence to the horrible task of combing through a battlefield in search of dead relatives in less than a year. Catherine will be forced from the pampered existence as a rich …