An okay read, but a bit adventurous for my tastes. As the heroine thinks to herself, "It had been just a little more than twenty-four hours since she had been kidnapped from her carriage--in a crime that had seen her coachman, and possibly her other servants, murdered--had overheard plans for her own murder, hit a vicious brute over the head with a chamber pot, crept out a window, ran across a boggy moor for her life, climbed down a cliff so slippery and treacherous that she had feared falling to her death with ever step, been hit over the head and kidnapped yet again, nearly drowned, been terrorized and humiliated by a ship's crew and then by the very man with whom she now fled, been accused of being both a tart and a traitor to her country, held a pistol on her captor only to discover it was unloaded, been kissed within an inch of her life and discovered that she quite liked kissing and her captor as well, gotten so horribly seasick that for a time she'd wished herself dead, come within a breath of being handed over to enemy soldiers, nearly died in an explosion--and now she was fleeing across the countryside along with her erstwhile captor and his disapproving henchman while the French army swarmed after them like bees after a honey-stealing bear." And that's only halfway through the book!A note for those who are bothered by such things: the hero and heroine of this romance commit adultery. It's also implied, though not stated, that the hero "cheats" while they're apart.
