Ilze

Different but delightful Regency period romance - a road story with English main characters, but none of it actually takes place in England or in any typical high-society English Regency surroundings (most of it takes place on Atlantic beaches and the road between Calais in northern France and Bilbao in northern Spain, and the climax of the story is in a gypsy's cave just outside Vittoria in Spain). The heroine Faith was wonderful and her steps to growing up and taking responsibility for herself were a treat to read. The hero Nicholas and the other three secondary characters were well-written too. And there is a dog in the story, which is always a bonus.

The climax of the story (don't want to give it away) certainly broke my suspension of disbelief, but the rest of the story more than made up for this.

I just finished re-reading this book (June 2011) after reading The Perfect Waltz. I enjoyed it even more on the second reading - the love story between Faith and Nicholas is truly wonderful, and the only flaw in the book for me is the ridiculous scene in the gypsy's cave. How I wish Anne Gracie had thought of some other way (that didn't involve ancient prophecies and weird gypsy magic) to cure Nicholas' injury.