Most of Catherine Coulter
Philippa de Beauchamp who is impulsive and imprudent. Fear of being wed to a loathsome, aged baron prompt her to flee her comfortable home. This escape of hers in a wool wagon lands her in even more trouble than she had imagined. Dienwald de Fortenberry is the owner of St. Erth who is not only a handsome rogue but also so very poor. He decides to ransom the girl back to her family for an obscene amount of money and all his problems will be solved. But it is not as easy as he things. Sir Walter de Grasse, Dienwald’s greatest enemy, learns a secret about Philippa’s past, a secret that not even she knows but that can change both her and Dienwald’s future.
This book made me smile with all its humor and also to see a woman escape from a dire predicament for once without a man rushing in to rescue her.
Even though this is the third book in the series, it is the first one that i have read so I can’t compare how it fares over the other two books.
All in all I thought it was a good romantic story even though it ventures a wee bit more into the “bodice ripper” territory.
