There’s also an age difference between the hero and heroine, if that’s your bag. It was my first Heyer and I loved the “heroine disguised as a boy/man” trope. RECOMMENDED: These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer is $1.99! This is a Regency romance and I have such a soft spot for this book. Sorry, Buckeye fans, this hero’s a Wolverine-but we won’t hold that against him.

Warning: Contains a doctor learning there’s more to healing his patients than stitching a wound, and more to a woman than knowing her place-and it’s not in the shadows with her head down. But Ruby must choose between seeking her own happiness and staying to fight for the soul of her hometown. And soon, Adam wants nothing more than to take Ruby and her child far from Georgia’s toxic prejudice. Something powerful draws him to the beauty whose activist spirit is as fiery as her name.

Now that he’s in Georgia, summoned by his white father, he can feel restrictions closing in around him. Adam Morson easily kept his mixed race a secret. Despite his arrogance, Ruby senses he’s someone like her, whose light skin doesn’t quite hide who he is. When she comes to help an injured mill worker, she bristles when a tall, handsome man claiming to be a doctor brushes her aside. A Virtuous Ruby has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads, and if you want to hear more about Huguley, check out her podcast interview!Īn unexpected love in a small, Southern town.Īfter fifteen months of hiding from the shame of bearing an illegitimate child, two words drive Ruby Bledsoe to face the good citizens of Winslow, Georgia. There are some Inspirational aspects to the book, so keep that in mind. A Virtuous Ruby by Piper Huguley is $3.50 at Amazon and Google:Play! And it’s a shame that it’s not price-matched elsewhere! This is an American historical and readers say that Huguley captures the setting really well, as well as the emotions of her characters.

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