The book opens with Thomas Jellicoe, third son to an earl, returning home exhausted after spending years searching for his lost love, Catriona Rowan. In fact, it very much reminds me of an Old Skool romance, right down to the heroine’s apricot colored hair, except without the rapey bits. It has a sweeping plot, an over-the-top ballsy heroine, and a villain worthy of an Old Skool romance. I expected this to be a traditional Regency (I’m kind of Regency-ed out here), but was delighted to find that most of this book is actually set in India. It also made me wax half my eyebrow off (more on that later). I grabbed it and started to peruse and was hooked almost instantly. I was standing in line at the grocery store, waiting as the woman in front of me (who apparently traveled forward in time from 1991) finished writing her check, and it was sitting on an endcap next to me. I picked up Scandal in the Night by Elizabeth Essex by accident.
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