I don't often give up on books. I abandoned this one out of shear boredom. The general premise is that Robert Mack, a Scottish laird of a boarder hold, was badly burned as a child--half of his face horribly scared. As an adult he travels to Paris looking for a healer he believes might cure him. There he meets Violet, a flower girl, when she is being harrassed by ruffians. Violet is blind and unable to defend herself. He rescues her, but ends up arrested for his trouble. Violet sets out to free him.

I didn't really care for this plotline--I suppose I was hoping for something a bit more violent or action-packed. The characters struck me as rather dull and predictable. Deformed self-hating hero meets blind, deeply loving heroine. Might appeal to some historical romance fans, just not myself.

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