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I didn't care for the first chapter, which is a dream sequence. That being said, by the end of chapter four, I had grown to like both the main characters and with chapter five, I was utterly hooked! Rebeccah could be a Jane Austen heroine, she is an intelligent, independent-minded woman navigating a society that expects her to find her livelihood by marriage alone. Kate, on the other hand, leaps with a cry of "Stand and Deliver!" right from the pages of Sir Walter Scott! Their romance is as intense and as chaste as that in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight. The author has certainly done her homework for this period piece, and chapter fourteen is the most harrowing account of a public hanging which I ever hope to see in a romance novel.
