Nick Beauvallet is the scrouge of Spanish shipping during the days of Queen Elizabeth I. A man of daring whose motto is Reck Not, the Spanish fear him as a witch. How else to explain Nick's extraordinary luck?
Now Nick is going to test his luck to the utmost. He dares to sneak into Spain itself to find the woman he has fallen in love with, Dominica. A beautiful maiden, Nick captured her when he destroyed the Spanish galleon she was traveling on from the Spanish colonies in the New World to her home in Spain.
Dominica at first resisted her attraction to Nick but, when it became clear he was a man of honor and not the brutal pirate the Spanish believed him to be, she admitted she returned his feelings. As a man of honor, Nick returned Dominica and her ailing father to Spain under cover of night and promised he would return and claim her to be his bride. But if the Spanish capture him, it will certainly mean torture and death at the stake. But Reck Not, Nick dares all.
I first read this story a long time ago. I wasn't that impressed with at the time. I suppose I was expecting something along the lines of Heyer's Regency Romances. This is not that kind of romance. But this time, I quite enjoyed this romp of a novel. Nick Beauvallet is definitely the star of this story and his love interest is third place at best, the second place is held by his charming and capable manservant, Joshua Dimmock, with his fabulous mustachios that he willingly sacrifices to help Nick escape his Spanish captors.
Review by She Reads Books.
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