MY LOVE, MY ENEMY Author: Jan Cox Speas ISBN: 9781402255779 2/2011 HISTORICAL Publisher: SOURCEBOOKS
MY LOVE, MY ENEMY is a magnificent, romantic adventure novel from a more innocent time. What a pleasure it is to read a book with dashing heroes and adventurous misses that is full of sensual tension without needing actual sex scenes. This book could never be written as it stands today by a modern author trying to reach the major publishing marketplace. The language is beautiful, with wonderful descriptions and characters that embody their relative nationalities with ease. The story is remarkable and so deft that at one point an American, a British, and a French woman are on the road together in America, and there seems nothing odd about that, in 1814! Page Bradley is newly eighteen and would like clothing that isn’t hand-me-down for once in her life. She smuggles aboard her father’s sloop for a day trip of spending her birthday money in Annapolis, never thinking she could get mixed up in the War of 1812. War is afoot on the high seas and her attempt to rescue a man who’d nearly run her over earlier in the day both protects her and puts her at risk as she’s passed from one ship to another as they battle. Resourceful and so very American, she copes with transition from America to Bermuda to France to England and home again, though never without the support of friends. I’m glad publisher Sourcebooks is re-releasing this story on its fiftieth anniversary. Perhaps readers will rediscover and desire to read another style of romance fiction that has lost favor in recent years. Heather Hiestand |
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