Helpful Score: 1
The plot and character development were excellent! Riveting, passionate storyline!
Daring and defiant, Virginia Courtney risks her life by transporting Royalist fugitives to safety. Until Colonel Alexander Marshall seizes her family's land and takes her prisoner. But the fearless beauty arouses a passionate yearning that the honor-bound soldier has never before allowed himself to feel.Irresistibly drawn to her handsome captor, Virginia cannot forget that he is also her most treacherous enemy. Yet with each caress, Alexander mounts a delicate assault on her senses, quelling all thoughts of rebellion--leaving her conscious of the perfection of his passion.Torn between desire and duty, Virginia and Alexander become players in the most dangerous of games...where intrigue and betrayal rule the day and where love carries the inevitability of destiny.
The followers of King Charles continue to rise against Cromwell's superior armies and defiant Virginia Courtney risks her life by transporting Royalist fugitives to safety. Until Colonel Alexander Marshall takes her prisoner. Soon they are both torn between duty and desire.
As well as Ms. Feather writes her Regency novels, this one of an earlier era (Cromwell, etc.) disappointed. The idea that a single young woman could be allowed to act as she does in this story is ludicrous. Women just weren't allowed much freedom in those days and this book falls down because of it. We need to keep a clear focus on how societal actions have changed from the medieval to the modern periods, so we can see how far (or not) we've travelled! Novels like this just muddy the picture.
Very good book
From Back Cover-
On opposite sides during the English Civil War, Alexander Marshall was honor-bound to seize Virginia courtney's lands and take her prisioner. By transporting Royalist fugitives to safety, the defiant young woman had forsaken her right to freedom-and the colonel would keep her captive as long as he had to. Subduing her rebellious instincts with his kisses was a natural temptation-until desire became more compelling than duty...
From Back Cover-
On opposite sides during the English Civil War, Alexander Marshall was honor-bound to seize Virginia courtney's lands and take her prisioner. By transporting Royalist fugitives to safety, the defiant young woman had forsaken her right to freedom-and the colonel would keep her captive as long as he had to. Subduing her rebellious instincts with his kisses was a natural temptation-until desire became more compelling than duty...
This is a historical romance occurring in the period of those loyal to the monarchy versus Oliver Cromwell and his followers.
The difference between treason and honor...was one woman's kiss.
On opposite sides during the English Civil War, Alexander Marshall was honor-bound to seize Virginia Courtney's lands and take her prisoner. By transporting Royalist fugitives to safety, the defiant young woman had forsaken her right to freedom--and the colonel would keep her captive as long as he had to. Subduing her rebellious instincts with his kisses was a natural temptation--until desire became more compelling than duty...
On opposite sides during the English Civil War, Alexander Marshall was honor-bound to seize Virginia Courtney's lands and take her prisoner. By transporting Royalist fugitives to safety, the defiant young woman had forsaken her right to freedom--and the colonel would keep her captive as long as he had to. Subduing her rebellious instincts with his kisses was a natural temptation--until desire became more compelling than duty...
A very good book, by one of my favorite authors.
Interesting story. This is the first one I've read that takes place in that time frame...of the English civil war of the 1640s.
A good book.
Back Cover
The difference Between treason and honor was one woman's kiss.
On the opposite sides during the English Civil War, Alexander Marshall was honor-bound to seize Virginia Courtney's lands and take her prisoner. By transporting Royalist fugitives to safety, the defiant young woman had forsaken her right to freedom-- and the colonel would keep her captive as long as he had to. Subduing her rebellious instincts with his kisses was a natural temptation--until desire became more compelling than duty.
Back Cover
The difference Between treason and honor was one woman's kiss.
On the opposite sides during the English Civil War, Alexander Marshall was honor-bound to seize Virginia Courtney's lands and take her prisoner. By transporting Royalist fugitives to safety, the defiant young woman had forsaken her right to freedom-- and the colonel would keep her captive as long as he had to. Subduing her rebellious instincts with his kisses was a natural temptation--until desire became more compelling than duty.
If you like historical romance, with the emphasis on HISTORICAL, then this is the book for you. The setting is 1648, during the war between the Royalists, who support King Charles, & the Roundheads, who support Oliver Cromwell. The hero is a Roundhead General; the heroine is a Royalist; the story is how they love each other and cope with their basic differences. There's not a lot of explicit sex, like in most of the romances written today, but enough to support the storyline - for me, it was a refreshing change. I have not read many books set in this era, and I loved it!
