The story begins in England in 1774,
the year after the Boston tea party, and soon moves to America, and tells of a
highborn English lady who gives up her pampered life among the aristocracy and
the dictates of her overbearing father to become an indentured servant and follow
the man she loves.
Lady Jane Lennox, daughter of Lord
Wychwood, laughed when a Hindu fortune-teller told her she’d meet a stranger
who is a marked man. And she wondered when that same fortune-teller told her
Captain Terrence MacKenzie of the Royal Dragoons, who she had loved since she
was young though he was bastard born, would be waiting for her at the end of a
long road.
At a dinner party in London, Jane learns
Terrence has been sent to Canada and that her powerful father has no intention
of allowing her to follow him. At that same party, she meets an insolent
colonial, Ethan Gordon, owner of a Virginia indigo plantation, who she spars
with over dinner—a Quaker marked by a burn on his face.
Rich with period descriptions, details
and locations (Williamsburg, the Green Dragon Tavern, and so many more), Bonds
has woven a meticulously researched tale that will please the serious historical
romance reader. There’s mystery, treachery and unwilling love with an engaging
cast of characters (both real and fictional)—all set in a time when the winds
of revolution were rising. Ethan is now one of my favorite heroes and the love
scenes and the ending were oh, so sweet.
I highly recommend it! A keeper!
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