I love Lauren Willig. This book had a slightly darker and more serious feel than her Pink Carnation series, but I still found it to be a cozy romance with a lot of historical detail. As in the Carnation series, you do have the modern-day storyline juxtaposed with the historical one and within the shorter time frame of a single book I felt that the modern wasn't quite as developed as the history, but that really didn't interfere with my enjoyment overall. I listened to this via Audible Audiobook, and it was well narrated by Nicola Barber.