I love Ms. Kinsale's writing, don't get me wrong. My favorite character's are her creations-intelligent, human, far more intricate than norm-but these two just didn't add up. I felt sorry for them. The heroine had shown such promise in the beginning. What really bugged me, though, was there were periods of time when years pass and they didn't even see each other. It's just the next paragraph, and oh, they're together again. The plot twists were so offsetting and unbelievable. Or maybe this is just one of her earlier books, written before historical romances became less of an I hate you, I love you, let's get it on genre.