The book is Georgian, not Elizabethan -- roughly the same time period as Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades or TV's Garrow's Law, though I don't recall an exact year being stated. You can thank the publisher for not putting a cover on it that would have shown the characters in their setting and perhaps prevented some of the confusion.
The exclamations used by the characters were common in their day; people really did say 'zounds' (God's wounds) instead of 'wow' or 'oh ****'. One thing you can trust Mary Balogh to do is not screw up the English language :)
This book is a standalone, not related to her other two Georgian books, Heartless and Silent Melody. Although I like her Signet regencies best, her Georgians are good reads also.
The exclamations used by the characters were common in their day; people really did say 'zounds' (God's wounds) instead of 'wow' or 'oh ****'. One thing you can trust Mary Balogh to do is not screw up the English language :)
This book is a standalone, not related to her other two Georgian books, Heartless and Silent Melody. Although I like her Signet regencies best, her Georgians are good reads also.
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