skygiants

I love it even more because I have read SO MANY romances when the heroine is better than the hero at something and they both know it and she still lets him win because she wants to be kissed or whatever and I HATE IT.

But yes. I really want to see what the book would have been without publisher's rules. Even though the ending gets away with more than most of the "fallen women heroine" romances, it's still very focused on restoring the current social order. I liked finding out in book 3 that Mark and Jessica weren't suddenly the toast of society or something.

Oh, I like the novella for the Turner series as well, though the characterization doesn't quite mesh with book one (it stars one of Margaret's friends).