My favorite story is one where there is not only action,
suspense and thrills, but an underlying plot of two people from opposite
spectrums coming together through trials and
tribulations.
These aspects of a story are important in romance. It adds
depth to the characters, adds to the action and the motives behind the
character’s actions to make a story believable and exciting.
Cassandra and Colton come from opposing backgrounds, and yet
they feel a mutual attraction that shouldn’t exist on the surface. It’s through
Cassandra’s longing to escape what society expects from her that fights with
her sense of adventure. Instead of 1775, she would have been completely at home
with being a modern woman in a life that proved her equal to any challenge that
came her way, far ahead of her time; hungry for such challenges that were
discouraged and believed women were incapable.
Colton Rolfe, ancestor of John Rolfe who married Pocahontas,
was a man who believed most women should be kept in their place, incapable of intelligence
equal to a man’s nor handling the job he gave to Cassandra, normally a man’s
domain. In fact, he was counting on her defeat and exile back to her home in
England. Bitter from his father’s and neighboring plantation owners’ treatment
of him because he inherited his great, great grandmother’s Native American
appearance, he found it hard to trust anyone but Jackson Lee, a childhood
friend.
How could Cassandra break through a lifetime of taunting and
racism to get as close to this man?
Through the outbreak of war with England, battle, treachery
and distrust, their mutual attraction and admiration gradually grew, until the
final scene at the hot springs in Virginia, where they each knew if they loved
each other, they had to accept each other as they were. Cassandra, hungry for
adventure, intelligent, capable of deep, abiding love, loyal and capable of
fighting for what she wanted, and Colton, a man longing to be loved while
distrusting that love, needing to be whole and complete. He was the only man
who gave her all that she craved, who fulfilled the needs she never realized
she had.
He sought her forgiveness and her hand in the only way he
knew how, and in a manner that would terrorize or infuriate any woman, except
Cassandra, who realized life with Colton meant a lifetime of excitement and
uncertainty. They both knew they would challenge each other to the limit, only
to come out the other side of conflict stronger and more deeply connected.
“No Gentleman Is He” is the proverbial story of self-discovery, the underlying theme of this exciting, suspenseful and action packed story of The American Revolution.
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