I picked up this novel recently, after doing a search for "best romance novels" and was presently surprised by how much I loved this book. It took me a couple of times to get into it, because of Maddy's Quaker "Plain Speech" (thee, thou), but it turned out to be such a good book that I'm glad I kept plugging through (it's not so bad, just threw me off a bit)! I definitely recommend this book.