Promised Land

by Rose Lerner

***This novella originally appeared in Hamilton's Battalion anthology with linked stories by Courtney Milan and Alyssa Cole.***

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happily-ever-after…

On October 14, 1781, Alexander Hamilton led a daring assault on Yorktown's defenses and won a decisive victory in America's fight for independence. Decades later, when Eliza Hamilton collected his soldiers' stories, she discovered that while the war was won at Yorktown, the battle for love took place on many fronts...

Donning men's clothing, Rachel left her life behind to fight the British as Corporal Ezra Jacobs--but life catches up with a vengeance when she arrests an old love as a Loyalist spy.

At first she thinks Nathan Mendelson hasn't changed one bit: he's annoying, he talks too much, he sticks his handsome nose where it doesn't belong, and he's self-righteously indignant just because Rachel might have faked her own death a little. She'll be lucky if he doesn't spill her secret to the entire Continental Army.

Then Nathan shares a secret of his own, one that changes everything...

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novella, American Revolution, Fiction

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2017

About the author

I discovered historical romance when I was twelve, and took my first stab at writing one a few years later. My prose has improved since then, but my fascination with all things Regency hasn’t changed. When I'm not writing and researching my own stories, or helping other authors write and research theirs over at Rose Does The Research, you can find me reading, watching, cooking, doodling, rambling, and daydreaming in Philadelphia.

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Reviews

[Zero (semi-hiatus) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love that this book is different from anything else that I've read.

Rachel is a Jewish woman who fakes her death, leaves her life (and husband) behind, and disguises herself as a man so that she can be a soldier in the Colonial army during the American Revolution.

Years later, Rachel sees Nathan (her husband) walking through camp, assumes that he is a Loyalist spy, and has him arrested.

This is a second-chance romance between Rachel and Nathan. When they were married, Nathan loved Rachel, but he was sometimes distant and didn't truly listen to her. His mother disliked Rachel from the start and Nathan never defended Rachel when his mother said hurtful things. Rachel was distant and didn't appreciate Nathan's good qualities. Really, it all comes down to them not truly talking or listening to each other.

[Joanna Loves Reading · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first taste of Rose Lerner and it lived up to the hype for sure. Set at the end of the American Revolution, reuniting a husband and wife. Judaism featured primarily here, which is a different change of pace in HR. I thought it was interesting and well-paced.

[Shira Glassman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Jewish historical fiction that has nothing to do with You Know What I Mean ::vague handwave:: is such a relief for me. We have all these years of tradition and existence, in all the great adventures of history and in a variety of costumes, yet we are often distilled down to our most recent and thorough calamity. To the point where some gentiles genuinely think it was the only time in history we were ever hassled. But that's beside the point. Reading something set in 1770's America -- or 1820's London, or 1400's Hungary -- is a joy and a relief and a validation for me. And it's neat to see what our traditions look like against the more-common-in-fiction gentile backgrounds of the period.

Rose Lerner's Promised Land is about a woman who leaves her husband with the help of the mother-in-law who never liked her; she fakes her own death and joins the American Revolution as a dude. One day, she catches him British-spying in their camp. Oops! Romance novel ensues. And we know it has a happy ending not just because of genre conventions but because of the framing device set during their golden years, when they're telling the story to Hamilton's widow's secretary.

They weren't that great as a couple when they were first married, but they sizzle now. That happens when people still need time to grow.

Their “present day” (i.e. wartime) chemistry has the feel of His Girl Friday banter--

"Wait, am I the British in this analogy? As in, you heroically claimed your freedom from my tyrannical rue?" No, because he was a nebekh who couldn't stand up to his mother. "No, wait, my mother is the British, and I'm... Canada?"

Aaaaand, I screamlaughed.

"Nathan searched for a word to explain Rachel's infuriatingly uncompromising, burning sureness. This goy [gentile; it literally means 'nation', with connotations of 'everyone else'] wouldn't understand '"tzadeikes," and its English equivalent "righteous" was too silly to say out loud." I run into this all the time IRL, in which I can't use the Jewish phrase because then I sound conspicuously ethnic but then the English phrase makes me feel silly and wind up sounding like a Live Love Laugh stereotype. SO relatable!

"she said, I want to be American. He'd thought she meant, I don't want to be a Jew anymore. It had never occurred to him a person could be both." It goes on to discuss a lot of what went into the Reform movement in general -- how to keep a thousands of years old tradition yet merge them with the realities of living in a modern society? I'm grateful for those who came before me to handle those challenges and balances, because it's thanks to them that I can give myself fully to Jewishness without compromising a lot of the other things that are important to me.

Another line in the book that spoke to me: "I like that Jewishness is about what you do, and not how much you say you believe God in your heart." If a gentile reads this book and truly understands that line, maybe they'll be less likely to get confused over how Jewish atheism or agnosticism exists.

I also liked the line "until her face stopped trying to cry." I've always resented the fact that my facial muscles do that no matter how badly I want them to stop, so seeing even something that minor put into words is validating.

Nathan's become the kind of romance hero a queer feminist like me needs in her m/f because by the end he's the one man in Rachel's life who doesn't think he has the right as her husband to be the deciding vote on whether or not she's allowed to be in the army. (“She’s Corporal Mrs. Mendelsohn now!”)

And of course I enjoyed this subtle affectionate dig at the Kaddish: "His name be glorified and embellished and covered in gold leaf with little flourishes drawn round it, &c., &c."

Also, Nathan is shorter than Rachel and I swear even as feminists this seems to be a thing we have trouble accepting in m/f couples? Unless maybe at least one of them is trans? And I don't know even then. It is seriously hard to pick all of the bits of patriarchy out of your teeth even when you’ve done with chewing it up and spitting it out.

I did have a few places I stumbled as a reader that make me give this story my “recommend with caveats” four star review rather than five stars: first of all, like many other “cis woman disguised as man because women aren't allowed to do stuff” stories, there's the obligatory scene where some of her friends are demanding to see her wang. Thank God it never actually comes to that, because she sneaks off and gets Hamilton himself in on the secret verbally, but it's still something that makes trans people uncomfortable for obvious reasons (sexual harassment and genital-centrism being the ones that come to mind.) I did appreciate that she was able to pass off her reluctance to drop her pants as being self-conscious partially about being circumcised, because it's one of the details that made the story so unmistakably Jewish.

The other thing that makes it a difficult story for me personally is that I feel like the narration of the story invites the reader to concentrate more on Nathan's growth as a character than on Rachel's, even though they've both grown – he had to learn to give her space, but in some cases, her response to feeling smothered initially was, like, really mean. I mean I guess it's a sign of her understandable immaturity at nineteen or whatever but instead of asking for space she was deliberately cruel to him.

Besides, her not loving him – she married him initially to escape poverty – was not something him being more considerate of her needing space would have changed. They stop needing space from each other once they actually both fall in mutual love. So maybe the moral is don't put people in positions where feel pressured to accept your advances for non-emotional reasons?

It's a cute story, trust me. And all this wank and drama about boundaries really doesn't affect the present-day interaction all that much, other than him deliberately thinking about whether or not certain comments or questions of his would constitute giving her breathing room or not. I do like it when my m/f includes badass women in men's clothing, as those of you who have read Mangoverse can probably imagine. There's a scene where they have frantic, very sensually charged sex while he's imprisoned and hoo dilly, I need to go reread that part.

Incidentally, kudos to Lerner for some bold and awesome flag-waving in the face of antisemitic tropes. First of all, Nathan's nose is called handsome, outright. Yes. Thank you. Plus, rather than running away from negative tropes, Lerner puts them right there on the page and then humanizes them as three-dimensional characters. Rachel has made herself pass for a man and is aggressive and strong-willed, as our women are accused of being – but she's also got an incredibly poignant vulnerable streak. Nathan didn't stand up to his mom – but he actually kind of did, because all she did was talk and he still did what he wanted. Plus, his ideology changed as he became more of an American Patriot in response to losing Rachel, since it was something she cared about. And despite not arguing with his mom he's definitely not a coward because he's up to some pretty daring shenanigans in the war.

I think it's important that literature and portrayals like this exist, because it's tempting to oversimplify and say “no more wimpy Jewish men” or “no more loudmouthed, opinionated, unfeminine Jewish women.” That's not it. Where does that leave actual people who fit that description? Yes, they “have rep already” but they really don't, because some oppressive dreck in which that's their single personality note is not going to validate even them. Life has nuance and so does this story. (I've seen this argument made about polyamorous and/or horny bisexual characters, because making every bi character a monogamous person who's not that interested in sex is not the right way to fix the problem.)

(tl;dr Nathan isn't actually wimpy.)

[Smut Report]

Review also available at The Smut Report.

Heat Factor: It’s more angsty than hot

Character Chemistry: I’m not sure I bought the resolution of past wrongs

Plot: Wife fakes death to escape marriage, runs into husband at Yorktown

Overall: It was interesting and well composed, but I did not buy the rekindled relationship

I was expecting this to be a story of a second chance romance that did not previously involve marriage. I was mistaken. Rachel and Nathan were married when they were very young, and it was not a good thing. In fact, it was so bad that Rachel faked her own death. Sounds like a promising beginning for this story. Nathan also loved Rachel, but Rachel only married him because her mother was dying. Again, we’re hitting all of the points that make me think this is going to go well. (/sarcasm)

Rachel believes so strongly in the ideals of the Revolution that she pretends to be a man and becomes a corporal in the Continental Army. Years ago, Nathan had sent Rachel and his mother to Philadelphia when the British occupied New York. Rachel 1) didn’t want to leave New York and 2) does NOT like her mother-in-law. To be honest, I probably also would not be a huge fan of a MIL who didn’t think I was good enough for her son. So Rachel fakes her death to live her dream. Nathan, left behind and thinking the wife he loved is dead, mourns deeply and starts making some changes in his life as a result. Namely, because Rachel believed so ardently in the rightness of the Revolution, he becomes a spy for the Continental Army.

Here we come to the point when Rachel and Nathan meet again at Yorktown. Rachel is living her best life, pretending to be a man, not keeping Kosher, dreaming of the time after the war when she can speak about how she, a Jew and a woman, fought in the Revolution. Contributed. Had value. Nathan, by contrast, is on a mission. His slightly nervous, placating disposition makes him a pretty good spy, so he wanders into the Continental Army to do his good work, and meets his dead wife entirely by accident. She thinks he’s a loyalist spy and immediately has him clapped up.

There are almost two stories here. On the one hand, as Rachel and Nathan are becoming reacquainted and she’s learning to trust him again, there’s a sense that he’s more willing to see her as she is, to be with her as she is, than anyone else. There’s a point when her sex is under suspicion and she has to defend her position as a soldier that illustrates what would be a truly lovely, emotional story between our protagonists:

Her comrades had only wanted to protect her. She believed that. But Nathan wanted to protect her, too, and he hadn’t tried to stop her.

She had actually been hurt by that. Doesn’t he believe we owe each other anything? Doesn’t he think of himself as my husband anymore? Colonel Hamilton had said it without thinking–if your husband permits it. Everyone–even Rachel, deep down, a little–believed it was Nathan’s place to make this decision for her. Everyone but Nathan.

This occurs late in the story, after some healing has taken place. You might think this healing makes the story work. Here’s the thing, though–Rachel is horrible to Nathan. Yes, Nathan passively ignored his rude mother instead of defending his wife during their short marriage, but his personality is what it is. His values are what they are. He can’t have a personality transplant, even if his wife’s “death” makes him reprioritize. At no point does Rachel respect Nathan for himself. Referring back to their marriage, she says to Nathan that she was intentionally and actively mean to and derisive of him so he would stop trying to be friendly with her. She judges him for being an observant Jew because she feels like a bad Jew for not wanting to follow all the rules. Even as he is cheerfully imprisoned, she derides him in her head. His positivity during his imprisonment is cause for her scorn. He is permitted to leave his cell to perform some work with other soldiers, and she scoffs at him for doing the easiest part of the job of preparing cartridges. SHE FAKED HER DEATH TO GET AWAY FROM HIM. How, exactly, am I supposed to buy that this is a relationship that can or should work at all?

This says it all:

She wanted to push him against a wall and make him repeat back to her what she had said to him, to explain it to her, to–To prove that he was different now. As darkness gathered and the British began another go at bombardment, Rachel made herself face it: to prove that it would be safe to go back to him.

Rachel doesn’t want Nathan the way he is. She wants something, someone else, and trying to smash a truly loving, accepting relationship into a marriage that has already ended is a terrible idea.

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[Rishika Aggarwal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Originally read in Hamilton's Battalion, review crossposted.

A story that takes place during the battle of Yorktown, it follows Rachel, a young Jewish woman, who disguises herself as a man - Ezra Jacobs - to fight the War of Independence. After having fought the war in its eternity, she finds her secret teetering on a knife's edge when, in the Continental camp, she captures a man she knows from her life as a woman who she believes in a British spy - Nathan Mendelson, who also happens to be be the estranged husband who believed she was dead.

The characters here are lovely and gorgeously plotted out. Rachel is, in some ways, a woman ahead of her time. She wants and demands more than a marriage, especially one she agreed to only because she needed a husband's money to help her ill mother, and she's willing to do what she needs to to get it. She's been determined to fight in the war since it started, and she's not going to let something like her gender stop her. And then there's Nathan, who's been pining away for the woman he's loved before he proposed, who thought her dead and found his convictions challenged enough that he becomes a Union spy, who finds the courage to walk into Yorktown in the height of the siege in order to make sure his newly discovered wife has a greater chance of making it out of the war.

Lerner's writing is brilliantly layered. Rachel's unwilling to diminish herself - she stands up to an overbearing mother-in-law, and when she realises her husband doesn't understand her and is unwilling to stand up for her, she escapes the only way she can think to. Nathan's filled with a quiet pain, a newly developed courage, making his way to finding a true understanding of the woman he has always loved - wrapped up in a talkative, nervous, anxious exterior. The romance is never one that involves either partner losing parts of themselves, only growing as people.

Beyond that, Lerner doesn't shy away from the reality of a woman at war, pretending to be a man. She writes body hair on a woman with a frank reality, and Rachel's constant worry that her gender will be revealed in both ever present and realistic. And yet she also makes it clear that her gender is never a problem - she keeps up with the men. She's a corporal. She stays in a tent with men with no issue. Rachel is a soldier, and that's made clear.

The other thing that makes this story is the way Lerner writes Judaism as being central to her characters' lives. Rachel and fellow soldier Zvi are relatively lapsed followers, especially given the reality of war, while Nathan fights to remain as devout as possible. At the same time, Rachel finds herself rediscover her faith, and redefining her relationship with it. And yet none of the characters conflict with each other over how they choose to approach their faith. All the while, Rachel's conscious of the way her people - Jewish people - have been treated through history, and is fighting to be able to write her memoirs in the future and remind the country that Jews fought alongside them for the Continental Army. As they fight to create a new country, she also fights to create a new future for herself and those who share her religion.

However, I wasn't able to connect with the story as much as I would have liked. I suspect that this was because for me, the emotional stakes were too low - there was never any concern as to how the relationship between the characters, and despite being in the middle of a battle, none of the main or significant side characters were even slightly injured, so that was a bit unrealistic for me. So too was the fact that despite being in the middle of a significant battle - perhaps the biggest one of the war, as the characters acknowledge, the tension wasn't high enough for me.

Side note: Love the side relationships, how Tench and Sarah manage a marriage while on the frontlines of a war, and the hints of the relationship between Zvi and Daniel, the partner waiting for him at home.

3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars - while i enjoyed it, I didn't connect with it as much as I would have liked.

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[Jami · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those times when I wish Goodreads allowed for half stars, as this is a great 4.5 stars read for me. Really strong story and characters, especially as so many novellas feel underdeveloped. Also, I don't think I've read a romance about two Jewish characters before, so it was interesting to see another perspective.

[Lake · Rating 4 out of 5]

God the ANGST

[Jade · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 stars

I really don't think this relationship would work out with all of the resentment, pain, and awful actions that took place. I really loved the focus on Jewish soldiers I feel like this is something never talked about in the context of the American Revolution.

[Lizzie Jenks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a second chance romance novella, set during the Revolutionary War, and packed with adventure and action.

Ezra Jacobs is an ardent Patriot who has worked hard to earn the rank of corporal, and is gearing up to lead a company of soldiers in what everyone hopes will be the final battle of the Revolution. But every day, Ezra has to be careful not to reveal that she is really Rachel Jacobs Mendelson, allegedly dead wife to a very much alive loyalist.

Nathan Mendelson just wants peace and stability. Mob rule has never gone well for Jews anywhere. But after he sent his wife and overbearing mother off to safety in Philadelphia while he stayed to protect their home and his job in New York, his wife died of yellow fever. He was devastated. And then the British arrived, and New York burned.

Rachel couldn’t stand being smothered, and her mother-in-law disliked her enough to help her fake her own death to be rid of her. Five years later, Nathan arrives in camp, and even though he could get her kicked out of the army by revealing her sex, she is too much a Patriot to let a loyalist spy roam freely in the camp. So after chasing him down and tackling him, she arrests him. But she doesn’t want him to hang. He is far too high-strung and worried about everyone liking him to be an effective spy. He doesn’t give away her secret, so she tries keep him safe from the guards and from her superiors. But that means spending time with him. And realizing they have both grown up since they last said goodbye.

Lerner does a brilliant job of worldbuilding in this story. Rachel’s duties, her scratchy uniform, her one spare shirt, and her shared canvas tent, all put readers right in the Continental lines outside Yorktown with her. Lerner gets so many daily details right, including Rachel’s mess-mate’s wife cooking for them and living with them in their tent–Washington’s army would have disintegrated without such women.

I absoltuely loved it!

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read That Could Be Enough for my book club and enjoyed it so much I figured I'd try another one of the romances in the trilogy I got out from the library. This one had a unique premise, and it was cool to see a fictionalized version of the role Jewish folks played in the American Revolution. It's definitely not a topic you typically learn about in history class!

On the romance side, I didn't find it believable that Rachel, who was SO full of resentment for Nathan and did not seem to like anything about him, would so quickly fall in love with him after their years apart. I get that they both changed, but damn, he seemed like such a kind, chill dude, and the harm he caused her was *checks notes* loving her, showing concern when she wasn't doing well, and being happy to see her. She HATED him for it. And then is horny for him all of a sudden??? Okay.

The romance wasn't super convincing. I also found the battle scenes surprisingly boring. This one really dragged for me, especially compared with how fast That Could Be Enough flew by.

[K.B. Rainwater · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent historical romance

I really enjoyed this glimpse into the lives of Jewish soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Though there were several references I didn't quite understand, the context was enough to piece together what was going on, and lengthy explanations would have broken up the narrative. I imagine to someone who shared those experiences of holidays and Hebrew schools, the casual references dotting the story would be familiar and welcoming.
I'm not a huge fan of the framed nature of the story, since it detracts from the immediacy of the action. Though I wholeheartedly support romance requiring a HEA, I want to remind myself that the couple are safe, not have Grandpa interrupt his reading of the story to assure me that Princess Buttercup doesn't get eaten by the eels.
Still, the writing was entertaining, and the characters drew me in and involved me in their struggles. I look forward to exploring the author's other books.

[Maya Chhabra · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 really, but I rounded up. This is a charming romance about a Jewish woman, Rachel, who fakes her own death and joins the Patriots in the American Revolution while disguised as a man. When her husband finds out she's not dead, they have to deal with their past and replan their future.

I liked Nathan (the husband) and the way his anxiety was incorporated into the story while still showing his courage. The book also had an interesting message about relationships where people mean well but aren't meeting each other's needs and the effort it takes to change that.

The battle scenes were interesting as well, but I felt there could have been higher emotional stakes...for example, no characters we know, not even minor ones, are killed during the battle. I also wanted more narration of Nathan's exploits inside Yorktown while Rachel fights besieging the city. Nathan's mission was definitely underdeveloped.

[vic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wasn't actually planning on reading this, at least not right now, but since my copy of Alyssa Cole's That Could Be Enough is in a bindup with the other two stories, I decided I might as well get the maximum impact by reading all three in order. And this one did actually manage to grab my attention pretty much immediately, which made that decision very easily! I did feel like there was a lot of not seeing the other person's perspective in the first chunk, which can be frustrating, but the ending resolved all of that in a way that felt genuinely satisfying for me. As it turns out, I actually kind of like second-chance romance like this, where it does a good job of establishing that last time they were together, they were too young to really know how to communicate effectively, and now that they've grown, they can actually do better.

(Also, while we're very different in a lot of ways, some of Rachel's feelings about not being a good enough Jew were very relatable lol)

[Clio Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's been a long time since I enjoyed a novella this much. Rachel and Nathan were wonderfully sympathetic characters, fully developed even given the limitations of the novella form. I loved Nathan's nervous talking habit. I enjoyed learning about the Jewish patriots' hopes for the new American Republic -- that was an aspect of our history I had never considered or encountered before.

I loved that the struggles in their marriage--Nathan's overbearing mother, Rachel's grief over the loss of her mother, their inability to conceive--were introduced but not resolved, and yet even without resolution, the lovers find their way back to each other. In committed relationships, some problems just are; you can't fix them; you only learn how to move through and past them, or how to make your peace living with them.

[Cait]

biggest pro:
- the unabashed jewishness and focus thereon (in fact, the romance rather takes a backseat to this, which won't work for everyone but did for me)

biggest con:
- the hamilton of it all

lerner is obviously a strong writer whose work I've enjoyed before, but this is just so hamilton, unfortunately. nathan is great, though! an anxious chatterbox whose brain won't shut up.

- "turns out I'm nervous enough already that I can ignore a little more and do quite daring things."
- "his heart felt swollen and black-and-blue as a plum"
- of breasts: "enough is as good as a feast" 😏
- thinking about rules and religion and "fussiness" and the rules we choose as a means of identity
- "I like that jewishness is about what you do, and not how much you say you believe in god in your heart."
- keynehore

[Helen Kord · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been rereading this book and I still love it so here's my original review:

Rachel and Nathan’s story was raw and desperate and I couldn’t put my book down. As a member of the Armenian diaspora, this story hit very close to home. I can relate to Nathan’s hope for his people to be respected and his need to hold onto his cultural habits. I could also understand how Rachel wished to just be accepted and belong with the majority. I loved seeing their journey of accepting what both of them need from their shared future.

My only quip is that seeing them together right at the start of the story lessens the impact of getting them there.

[Ina Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why did I wait so long to read this? It was absolutely lovely and perhaps my favorite work by Rose Lerner thus far. There’s nothing quite like a story with a prickly, ambitious heroine and a cinnamon roll beta hero who is a coward in pretty much all things except love. Throw in a second chance romance, a marriage of convenience, and a disguise/secret identity and you’ve pretty much managed to write a novella tailored to all of my fancies.

[ainsley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had no idea how much I wanted historical fiction with Jewish protagonists until I read this. I don't remember having read any before this. I enjoyed how much these characters grew. (And for a good review, read Shira Glassman's; it's spot-on.)

[Yolande Kleinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought everything about this romance was beautifully done. The main character is smart and competent and compelling, and I love the way she faces the challenges that come at her.

[Mirta Trupp · Rating 1 out of 5]

Only downloaded the sample. Loved the cover.

[Sofia · Rating 2 out of 5]

second chance romance with jewish characters
very blackadder by minus the comedy but not the slapshit

[kenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

*Screaming the lyrics from Peace by taylor swift* AND YOU KNOW THAT I’D swing with you for the fences. SIT WITH YOU IN THE TRENCHES. give you my wild. GIVE YOU A CHILD.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt like this had a little more history crammed in than it fully incorporated/explained for those of us not in the know. Dense and on the dark side, but very vivid.

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not married but there is something so inherently relatable about faking your own death to escape your terrible mother-in-law

CW: Sexual content, antisemitism, war, death, violence, injury, gender essentialism, toxic relationship

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was book #66 for Romanceopoly 2020.

Pack : Moon
Square : Courtship Row
Challenge : Read a historical romance where the h/H is a spy or soldier