Ms Blair has managed to give an early-nineteenth-century heroine a strong late-twentieth-century character and still stay in period, one of the most difficult feats for a writer of this genre to accomplish. The result is truly delightful. There are lots of fun and twists and turns along the way to entertain; a hero who's very believable but still gorgeous; some interesting minor characters--and all this written with a deft hand. I look forward to seeing what Catherine Blair brings us next...