As always we know they’ll end up together, but how? Ada and Max both have traumatic pasts, and we explore the differences in how they treat these events and work to move on from them (or not as the case may be). I really loved that both main characters freely admit their own imperfections, and they’re not the typical clean slates we so often see. They have trauma, previous relationships, and both have very different lives. It’s a breath of fresh air in the regency romance scene and I flew through this effortlessly. So much so I think I may now have to read about secret agent Dougall next! Thanks to the publishers for the ARC!