Dear. Ms. Westin
In my never ending quest to find non Regency historicals, I snatched up your book. And while I’m not sorry I did, I didn’t find it to be everything I’d hoped for.
Our heroine, Lady Anne Gascoigne overhears her beloved fiance offering her virginity to randy King Charles II in the hopes of preferment at court and lucrative Royal land grants in the new world. Horrified, she flees from court. Her protective father decides that hiding her until he can get the marriage contracts annulled is the best plan and finds just the man for the job. Gentleman Johnny Gilbert is sprung from the hangman’s noose at the very last minute and offered the job of keeping Anne safe for two weeks in exchange for passage to Jamaica and a new life. Off they go to his forest retreat where she’s put to work earning her keep until the fateful night she thinks he’s conspiring against her with her fiance. She runs off to London with him trailing behind. Various adventures follow including a brush with the plague, Dutch spies, a wild storm in the channel, near …
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