Merlin's Keep

This book starts out in Tibet. It is about a young woman who does not know her ancestry, and this is a search to find it. The main character is no milk toast English lady, but is full of spunk and brains and a sense of humor. My interest was caught in the first paragraph and it never let me down thoughtout the whole book. It's what I would label an intelligent romance, in other words, a great story line with a little romantic interest thrown in. It falls under the label 'Historical mystery fiction'.

Another reader reviews these books by saying this: " All her books [well, really, his -- the author is really Peter O-Donnell, author of the Modesty Blaise books] are historical romances. Virtually all of them involve a clash of foreign cultures with staid British 19th century customs and manners; her heroines, though all British by birth, have been raised in places like China, the Australian outback, or such exotic English backgrounds as a traveling circus. These women wouldn't know how to faint or simper. They're strong, intelligent, gutsy, compassionate women, as likely to rescue the heroes as be rescued by them, all without it ever occurring to them that there's anything unusual about them.