Alexis Hall’s prose shines once again in this regency romance with a difference. I absolutely adored the main characters of Viola and Gracewood and I was fully engaged and rooting for them throughout. I appreciated how this was book was about two lost souls finding their new beginnings with each other, but wrapped in all the lace and crinoline that the ton permits. The queer rep was glorious and I loved the subversion of the power trope. Alexis Hall always writes such amazing romantic leads who, despite their flaws, I wind up rooting for. I only deducted a star because the pacing at the front was strange with an early revelation and it knocked me off kilter slightly. But apart from that, for the language and the romance, this was a slam dunk.