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Mistress of Her Fate (Legacy of Love)

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I brought this book purely on the title, hoping it might be a Regency, it wasn't. Julia Byrne has set this book in 1464, so things are a little more robust than later times. For me it was readable but not as subtle as I prefer. I think if I quote a passage from the book you can get a flavour of the tone and style of writing. The hero is addressing the heroine.

"If you want to live, my lady, he said very softly, `you'll shut up and do exactly as I say. If I say we're leaving tonight, that's precisely when we leave. If I say ride hard, you'll ride harder than you've ever ridden in your cosseted, useless life. If I say walk, you'll walk. If I say crawl on your hands and knees, you'll damn well crawl on your hands mud knees. Do you understand me?' Nell was trembling by the time he'd finished, but it wasn't in fear of Beaudene. At least, she didn't think it was. His forceful insistence that they flee her family, his arrogant confidence that he was right, shook her more than she cared to admit. What if she was wrong? What if the slashed gown was the only piece of spite Margaret had indulged in, and the other incidents real attempts on her life?"

From the back of the book...

Lady Eleanor fitzWarren had barely seen her father since he gave her into the `care' of her uncle's dissolute household. Only by deceit and manipulation had Nell managed to hang on to her virtue, so it ill became Lord Rafe Beaudene to think her a whore, however things might have looked! Rafe might have been delegated to bring her to her father, prior to any marriage fitzWarren might arrange, but Rafe clearly had an agenda of his own. Was Nell simply to be a pawn between two powerful men bent on revenge?