Wow! I really liked this book. I would classify it under action adventure romance, which really is my favorite kind of book. It reminded me a little of Madeleine Brent's books or Jane Aiken Hodge. I think this time the back cover of the book made it sound more stupid then what it was about. Thank goodness for that. I am a little curious if Barbara Hazard's other books are anything like this. If they are then I might have found another favorite author.
John Haverfield, the Marquess of Vare, was in no hurry to take a wife-and certainly not one like the tomboyish, outrageously independent, thoroughly intractable young Lady Laura Lockridge.
For her part, Laura wanted no part of any man- certainly not one like the maddeningly self assured and insufferably arrogant marquess.
But journeying over dangerous roads and through mazes of intrigue in Italy, far from the safety of London's social rules, this perfectly mismatched pair of titled travelers found themselves forced to pose as newlyweds-on a honeymoon that tested to the breaking point the vows of both of them never to love, honor, or obey...
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