I think this is one of my favourite Heyers of all. Both of the protagonists are sensible people, who don't actually want to spend all their lives at parties and routs, people drawn a little deeper and with more character. They're not quite your typical romance stereotypes. I love many Heyer books, but Jenny and Adam feel the most like real people. Adam, Viscount Lynton, was happy with his career as an army Captain and a big fan of the Duke of Wellington. Unlike many books set in the Napoleonic era, we get a lot more awareness of the progress of the war with Napoleon. Many of Adam's friends are still in the army, and his awareness of just how little interest the people he interacts with in London society have of the war, is galling to him. Jenny is the daughter of Jonathan Chawleigh, an extremely wealthy businessman. Her father wants a title for his daughter. Adam has come home on his father's unexpected death to discover that all he has is debts and mortgaged property. He had plans to marry his sweetheart, Julia, but all that is now impossible... The most interesting thing about the book is how Jenny copes with the knowledge that her husband is still in love with another woman - Julia. And she with him. Jenny is very sensible in her approach to the situation, and the contrast between Jenny's sense and Julia's sensibility is in many ways the heart of the novel. (Sensibility is a word far less in use these days, but 'sensibility' refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. (or, in short, a propensity to get over-emotional about things...) If you want a novel in which people do all the usual romance cliches like denying their mad sexual attraction for each other, falling out because they misinterpreted something the other did, doing something really stupid to try and make the other, etc. then this won't be your book. If you want a novel where two people in a marriage that neither of them had anticipated, and where only one of them has feelings for the other, but who treat each other like adults and grow gradually in friendship and understanding as much as affection - then you may like this as much as I did.