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This book is set at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and tells the story of a young woman whose father is the British governor of South Carolina. He sends her to England for her safety where a whole lot of bad things happen to her, she returns to South Carolina where even more bad things happen to her, after which she returns to England where she suffers even more bad things. That's about it as far as the plot goes. Here are the reasons I gave it one star: 1. There are numerous typos, incorrect words used, missing words and incomprehensible sentences. At one point I started a new chapter and quickly realized the text on the first page was a direct copy/paste of the last page of the previous chapter. 2. There is a lot of explicit violence. I can't remember ever reading a historical romance with this much, and kind of, violence. A maniac whips the heroine so badly that later, when back in South Carolina, someone says her back looked worse than the backs of "Negro" slaves who had been whipped. 3. The heroine is stupid and never learns from her mistakes. She insists on trusting untrustworthy people and then suffers the consequences, again. 4. There is no hero, in my opinion. All of the men in the book, with the exception of her brother, betray her at one point or another. She continues to love them anyway. 5. The author does not have a grasp of the basic principles of "fair play" when writing a novel. Once again, in my opinion as a writer, you never change a character's core principles - for example, from being a good person to being an evil person - without giving the reader some clues along the way, even if they are subtle. It's just like you never introduce the murderer as a new character toward the end of a murder mystery. All suspects, including the murderer, must be introduced at the beginning of the book. I wish I could write about some redeeming qualities but in the interest of being honest, I can't. If you like stories where women are beaten, choked, raped, murdered, lied to and deceived by men they think love them, then go for it. If you're looking for a historical romance, give it a pass.