A story of a half-Indian woman and a man with a lot on his mind.

Having lost a friend during the Charge of the Light Brigade; Major Camden Lithgow feels guilty for not recovering the body and keeps returning, hoping against hope that he will find a body or maybe a man. He's drowning his sorrows in a tavern when he sees an exotic beauty dancing and finds himself in her arms. When he later finds her at a ball he realises that actually she's a woman of the upper class. Her father is a merchant and her mother is Indian and being in that tavern was her only way out of an arranged marriage she does not want. When she realises that she's pregnant they have to defy their families and marry. Both families do everything they can to get between them, even after they're married but the two of them realise that they want to be with each other.

I liked it, I liked the two of them and their relationship and their determination to make a good job of it. It was nice to see more variety of backgrounds and characters and I look forward to more by this author. ( )