Finding Lady Enderly is not your typical romance. It starts as a sort of rags to riches story, with Raina being swept up like Cinderella to the ball, her rags turned to silk and suddenly she’s the Lady. But it isn’t all diamonds and fancy dresses. Her new life is a lie, and it weighs heavily on her shoulders. Her struggle wasn’t just with God and her spirituality, it was with the morality that she felt was the right thing to do.

The romance of the novel is a little more subtle, as it draws heavily on the love of Raina’s life, lost to her in the past. But he is no longer there to rescue her from her predicaments, and she finds that she needs to play the part of rescuer instead. Every day she spends as Lady Enderly pulls her further into danger and deceit.

There are so many amazing romantic gestures that made my heart swoon. Communicating to your love by marking lines of text in classic novels from Bronte, Austen, and Dickens is a surefire way to a booklovers heart. Add glances across the room, glimpses of a familiar face in a crowd, and song that will move your heart, and even though we don’t see his side of the romance, we don’t really need to. Raina shows us his love in every moment together.

The ending has several unexpected moments. Surprises and twists on what I thought was going to happen. In many ways, these were amazing, but I did feel a little cheated on my happily ever after - it didn’t happen soon enough, and the author made us wait until the very very end. The story ends in a way that vividly reminds me of the classics used in the story, with a more settled feel and deliberate feel to it, but heartwarming and satisfying in its own way.