The hero is both gentle and tough, and while the heroine comes across as aloof and cool (just look at the cover), I liked her a lot in the end, and even went back to the early chapters to search for clues to her character that I’d missed. Justin Summers and his companion Pepe manage to sneak past enemy lines in France to reach Lord Wellington’s camp.

There’s a bunch of little sisters who are rather fun, a tragic lovelorn cousin, a wise Spanish batman. An important goal of the currently funded NIH grant tests whether these primary and secondary responses contributes to progressive heart failure in a mouse. An Independ-ent Heart by Elizabeth Grant Books on Demand, 4.99, ISBN 978-3751961264 Historical Romance, 2020 Elizabeth Grant’s An Independent Heart starts dramatically. The story moves fast and the writing is fine, witty dialogues and some really beautiful descriptive passages. This may sound a bit ponderous, but oddly enough it isn’t.

Claire is used as a pawn by her half-brother, but remains loyal to him all the same. Justin despises his father, but doesn’t want to expose him to ridicule. While as a reader you really want to know if the hero and heroine end up together, they are far more worried about family and duty. Lizzy Grant (better known under the name Lana Del Ray, she later changed the a Ray for an e), with an independent label and producer David Kahne to the. The historical background is very good, and that goes for the characters as well. These involve a wealthy young woman, her half-brother, and a seat in parliament… It’s a love story, but I really enjoyed it. Captain Justin Sumners learns that his elder brother has died, and returns to England, where it turns out that his father has plans for him. The story does in fact open in St Jean de Luz in February 1814. I started reading this novel because the Nivelle is mentioned in the blurb and the male lead is a captain in the Riflemen – I wouldn’t usually pick up a historical romance.

An Independent Heart by Elizabeth Grant