This was such a fun Hell's Belle's installment. MacLean is killing the prologues in this series! Adelaide's wedding day was just as unsettling and exciting and adventurous as Sesily's tour through the maze in Bombshell. This romance has so many elements I absolutely love - road trip, only-one-bed several times over (to quote the Duke of Clayborn, "there is a shocking lack of beds in this country"), class difference, secret pasts, injury caretaking/deathbed confessions, and women saving men repeatedly. Truly, in this series MacLean sets every single female main character up to be her own savior, and we know from page one that our women are more capable, competent and experienced than their male love interests - it's a DELIGHT. I also felt like the pacing in this one is perfect - at times, I get frustrated when MacLean's MMC's are convinced she is "not for them" because they aren't good enough (cue "mysterious backstory they won't tell us about"). The reveals in each character's backstory happen precisely when they need to, which meant it never felt overdone and the conflict didn't depend entirely on withheld information. Can't wait for Imogen's story in Knockout!