An OK book. Not one of my favorites but enjoyable enough. ( )

1,5

Gabrielle and her brother Gerard is in Switzerland awaiting the return of their father wich has been gone for some time on an undisclosed buisness.

Before he left he told them that if he didnt arrive back in a fixed amount of time they were to go to England and meet up with an old family friend,Madame Aurore.

On their traveling Gabrielle happens on a dying man who begs her to deliver a very important message to someone called "The Man in the Green Coat" This leads to the siblings being pursued and shot at.

When they arrive in England Gabrielle has been hurt and the siblings have to beg help from an inn where they are assisted by a certain Mr Everett.

They continue their acquitaince when they arrive in London and Gabrielle and Mr Everett hit it right off,even introducing her to his family.

and then some other things happen...

I did enjoy some of the hero and heroines conversation but was annoyed that the hero couldnt decide if Gabrielle in reality was a spy.

I found myself skimming a lot of the book,cause frankly some of it was pretty boring and felt like filler,so that might have something do with me feeling confused throughout the book.

Done right a spy plot can be good,but its not a plotline I prefer so that played a large part.

In the end the secret of their fathers identity is revealed and it was anticlimactic at best. Like that was it?

I felt that there was too much going on at the same time and that certain characters werent developed properly.This includes the hero and heroine. ( )

A nice book but definitely not one of my Carla Dunn Regency favorites. Too many things were somewhat unbelievable. A father who is actually a master spy turns up in the nick of time to save the day, for example. The book was fun to read but it didn't have the layers and the substance that some of Dunn's later Regencies's have. Nice characters. The heroine had a bit of spunk but another thing that I found somewhat outlandish was that such a young and pretty inexperienced man was made chief of intelligence for the English during the Napoleonic Wars. ( )

With their housekeeper dead and their father still missing, twins Gabrielle and Gerard decide to escape revolutionary France (where they are distrusted for their lack of Republican sentiment) to England. Gabrielle disguises herself as a boy (and has a difficult time riding astride--a refreshing change from the usual "la, I am so free spirited and ride horses as I please!" heroine bs) and they flee, dodging French soldiers along the way. While hiding in a barn, Gabrielle stumbles across a dying English spy, who gives her a message for "the Man in the Green Coat."

In England, Gabrielle passes on the message to the MitGC, who turns out to be handsome, high-handed Mr. Everett. Their attraction deepens over the course of the novel, but French espionage and the mystery of Gabrielle's parentage keep them apart.

The last few chapters are a bit annoying--everyone is related to everyone else! All is revealed in infodump form! Huzzah! That aside, it's a fun, well-written Regency romp. ( )