I enjoyed the book. Like a lot of Barbara Cartland books, this is a historical romance and centers around the accepted roles of women during that time period - what they are capable of and what they expected to do or not to do. The heroine fills in for her ill father as a language expert. She journeys alone and unannounced to join a man who not only has no use for women, but is doing intelligence gathering in a dangerous Muslim country where women are nonentities. The plot is good, I wish it were a bit longer and had more time for depth and more character development.

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