I can't believe so few people have read this book and no one has written a review.I think this historical romance, and perhaps the author, is a "sleeper" on Goodreads. ...meaning that it is very good and not been noticed thus far.I generally don't like to give a lot of detail of the book if the book itself has a good description.This is NOT a western historical romance. The story takes place in 1838 New York City. The prologue starts with the hero in Texas, but the entire story is in New York City.This is not one of those books where the hero comes across as a "yokel" or "yahoo", with quaint western phrases coming out of his mouth every page throughout the book. The hero adapts rather quickly to "city life" and "city ways". Both the hero and heroine are intelligent beings with strong characters and wills that will have you reading through the end to see how things wrap up.Largely this book and the hero/heroine's involvement center around inheritance, finances and legalities with colorful characters rebelling around them for different reasons, people who appear to be the villains who may or may not be and an embezzlement scheme. Plenty of "whodunnit".If you like to read romance books that read like playing the game, "Clue", then I think you will like this book.I don't have a strongly-labeled bookshelf description for these types of books. Roughly, I tend to throw them in a category I call "historical Americana romance".At any rate, the books reads fast and is mostly well-paced with development/introduction of characters and action and wraps up neatly and somewhat surprisingly. I couldn't quite give it 5 stars as I only give 5 stars to books that I am certain I want to read again one day, but I'd say it was a strong 4.5 on my scale.
