Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: Third person from both the heroine and hero
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes
% which mains are first on page together: 7%
Format: voluntarily read an advanced review copy of an e-book through netgalley

Should I read in order?
Yes! I started with this one and I felt like their story was already started before I opened the book so I recommend starting at the beginning of the series.

Basic plot:
Mary serves in the league of Highlanders that took her in years ago, searching for the lost Treasure of Arkaig.

Give this a try if you want:
- Georgian time period – 1753
- Jacobite plotline
- bit of a mystery – heroine is on the hunt for gold
- corset making heroine
- whaler hero
- working class romance
- plenty of spy/mystery dialogue and some political intrigue
- second chance romance
- lower steam – I could be off on this but I think it’s just 1 full scene

Ages:
- I think the heroine is 30? (There’s ages mentioned in the prologue and time passes so I’m unsure if I have this correct)

First line:
Men were the problem – or rather, one Frenchman and the kiss he stole from her mother on the deck of a ship.

My thoughts:
Sadly, I didn’t get into this one much. Second chance isn’t my jam and here the two mains have already met and been intimate and I felt like I missed all of my favorite parts of romance.

Much of the plot revolves around some mystery/spy work feel regarding Jacobite gold. There’s some scenes of danger and political intrigue and none of this is really my thing either.

I think if you like a faster paced mystery based romance with light steam, this will be more your thing, but read the series in order as I think it will flow better.

This was my first by Gina Conkle and even though I was disappointed in it I definitely will try another by her and see how I feel :)

Quotes:
“Would you like some wine?” she asked.
“I’m not thirsty for wine.”
But I’m thirsty for you was his message.


Content warnings:

- Heroine’s mother dies of yellow fever
- Some scenes of violence with guns including a gunshot wound
- Missing/abducted sister

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

I don’t think anything is mentioned 

 
33% - kiss
45% - kiss
59% - 🔥 kisses that lead to missionary
74% - kiss