Mary Balogh's "Beyond the Sunrise"

Beyond the Sunrise - Mary Balogh

The hero (Robert Blake) is just scrumptious but the heroine is mostly annoying. I couldn't understand why she didn't just hand the villain over to the Spanish partisans when she found him instead of following him across Spain and down Portugal for the second half of the book so she could shoot him personally. The Spanish partisans would have administered a much more severe punishment on him than she did. Mary Balogh has a few books where the plot is stretched out for rather stupid reasons ...