After reading this book because it was written "in the tradition of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series," I am vastly disappointed. As an avid reader of historical fiction, this one was just silly. The heroine in this book was mindless, aimlessly babbeling on to anyone with no consequences as to how she may be perceived. Being accustomed to a lot of details in historical fiction, there was a lot missing from this book. Pairing actual persons to fictional ones is tricky when it's done well, but missed the mark here. I'm sad to say I wasted my money on the hardback book.