Their chemistry overrode the kidnapping and assassination plots on Sophia’s life by her enemy the Terrible Turk, Ali Pasha. Gabriel is definitely the main attraction to the story and his nobility, honor and sensuality saved some of the dreary maudlin parts that Sophia tends to bring out. After Gabriel becomes her lead bodyguard, she’s rather reckless with her virtue for a princess and acts as petulant as a spoiled 21 year old princess might. She followed orders, protocol and had a sense of duty that a princess would have.
The only good thing was that Sophia never really did anything TSTL. If you’ve seen “ The Bodyguard,” you’ll know how things work in this story. What could be seen as a run of the mill plot, well it really is. Gabriel then agrees to help protect Princess Sophia, but ends up promising more than his military knowledge and skills, and of course, risks everything.
He’s then summoned to help in a diplomatic matter and finds out his maid is in fact the princess, and soon queen, of a small Mediterranean island country that England wants to help. Some sudden attraction later and a couple of misunderstandings they end up doing some things strangers usually don’t do and she steals off the next day leaving Gabriel hurt. He things she’s been sent by his brother to ease his many needs, but he instead offers her a job as his maid. His near death experience has given him a new view of life, but when he finds a wayward girl in the loft of the barn things get thrown out the window. Last seen, Gabriel Knight had given up his inheritance to go live in the country to find peace after his life of warfare and violence in India.
With intrigue, a small measure of scandal and a enough chemistry to start a few explosions things may be looking up. I’ve loved Foley’s Knight Miscellany series and even though the first two didn’t work for me, I had hopes that Gabriel Knight’s story could help redeem things. When Sybil gave me this one, though, I couldn’t say no. I have to admit that maybe I should have learned my lesson after the first two books in the Spice Trilogy, Her Only Desire and Her Secret Fantasy. Historical romance released by Ballantine 25 Mar 08
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