Not my favorite in the series. Randall and Julia had hints of a romance in [b:Loving A Lost Lord|6066533|Loving A Lost Lord (Lost Lords #1)|Mary Jo Putney|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1307205240s/6066533.jpg|6242865], but as characters didn't seem as intriguing to me as others in this series. My ambivalence about their romance, resulted in a halfhearted reading that I have mixed emotions about.
Con: The conflict that allegedly kept them apart wasn't enough to sustain a full novel, so it's interspersed with conflicts that didn't feel believable. Part of that is because most of conflicts seemed to happen all on the same day. Plus some of the behaviors were a bit ahead of their time.
Pro: Some of the behaviors were ahead of their time. Julia being a domestic violence survivor, and wanting to start shelters around the country for women in similar circumstances, was commendable... but giving the laws of the time period...I just couldn't believe things would go as smoothly as the blithe let's do it conversations she had with Mariah and Randall. They were good people that it was easy to root for their relationship.