It happens that Elayne is the Princess Elena Rosafina of Monteverde, only a half-sister to Cara her grandfather was Prince Ligurio, Melanthe’s first husband who fell victim to the wars between Riata and Navona in northern Italy. Suddenly she receives a summons from her godmother Melanthe: she must prepare to return to Monteverde, the Italian city-state she left as a small child. Happily ensconced in the English countryside, young lady Elayne spends her days in her sister Cara’s household, oblivious to the political turmoil surrounding her. If you like your heroes dark and tortured – well, they don’t come much darker than Allegretto Navona. The intense, almost violent, nature of the sexual relationship between the hero and heroine almost ruined this one for me, but Kinsale managed to offer enough compensation in the form of an engrossing plot and her trademark lyrical writing so that I feel I can still give a recommendation, albeit a heavily qualified one, for the sequel to For My Lady’s Heart that we’ve all been waiting to read. Sometimes it’s hard to predict whether any single element in a story is going to be a deal-breaker or a deal-maker you just have to read the book to find out.
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