Review: Interesting characters, but confusing storyline
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
The H/h are likable, and the story which involves an 18-year-old girl running away to the New World to escape a broken heart while being followed by the man who hopes to marry her for her money is intriguing.  However, I found the storyline confusing after the H/h run into trouble onboard a ship bound for America.  SPOILERS*************The H/h somehow end up transported (they don't know how, and neither do we) from a ship in the middle of the Pacific under attack by pirates to Gretna Green, Scotland.  They black out and the next thing they know is that they are on dry land, and Gretna Green of all places?  Where people at that time period went to marry after running away?  How convenient.  Well, we can see where this is going....  The story could have been so much more, but I just couldn't get past the fact that it is never explained how they escaped death on that ship and ended up safe and sound in Scotland.  Supposedly it is through the magic of the Scrimshaw Doll which the heroine was given as a gift from the woman who married the man she had loved.  I mean, if this was a fantasy story, or a time travel novel, fine--but Amazon has this in its Regency Romance section.  What gives?