Fabulous story, fabulous characters. It's a story of guilt, penance and what happens when a cast of characters become caught between two men with very different ideas of what guilt is and what penance is required to atone for it. Like all the Anne Stuarts I've read, the story itself is so rich that the characters just slot in so easily. The book doesn't labor over each individual's physical or emotional attributes. It doesn't need to, and I love that. I also love the medieval setting, which is fairly well described but doesn't crowd the story nor the characters.