Review: OMG!  I Loooooooved this Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2013
I really loved this novella and would give it 10 stars if I could! It is well written and nicely edited, with interesting relatable characters. The story is action packed from start to finish, and for me there were many LOL moments. Poppeia is a young woman with a mind of her own. She's feisty, brave, smart, and independent. She has no interest in marriage, and secretly does all she can to discourage potential suitors. Poppeia and her group of close-knit friends, decide to disguise themselves as highwaymen, to exact revenge for the rape and ruin of one of their number. I will admit that the highwayman ruse is a bit juvenile, but this is a lighthearted romance, so it fit in perfectly with the rest of the story. On the particular night the ladies choose to enact their ruse, the holdup is interrupted by the hero, Lord Roland. He pursues and captures Poppeia, thus uncovering her identity. Of course he uses this information to blackmail Poppeia, and from there the story quickly progresses to its conclusion. Roland is a spoilt, bored aristocrat (as he describes himself.) He engages in offbeat pursuits for amusement, such as pretending to be a highwayman. I admit I wasn't too sure about Roland at first. He seemed too much on the rakish side for me. However, it very quickly became clear that he didn't mean Poppeia any harm, and before long I fell in love with him. When Roland tries to seduce Poppeia, and magnanimously offers to marry her, she shoots him. I'm telling you, this story will have you doing a deal of chuckling. Later when Poppeia finds herself in a coil because of her highwayman ruse, Roland comes to her aide, like a knight in shining armor. As with a lot of regency romances you have to suspend disbelief to a certain extent to allow for the inaccuracies related to the time period, (in this instance the heroine is always able to sneak out and have rendezvous in the middle of the night, without ever being discovered) but my philosophy is that it's a romance FICTION not a historical treatise, so the author is certainly allowed some artistic creativity. I loved this novella and highly recommend it as a thoroughly entertaining read. BTW this is not a clean romance. Happy reading!