I was so impressed with this story! Easily THE most romantic novel I've ever read, that appealed to me the most. It was the bestseller of 1900. You already knew I was out of date, right?
Just happened across this cover. I don't necessarily like it, it's not what I had imagined at all. The first time the two characters meet each other, she's an aristocrat disguised as a puritan maiden, and the hero, though also a nobleman, is wearing buckskins: after he meets her, he is impressed enough to stop and scrape the mud off his boots with his knife.
It's all dramatic gestures and reading between the lines, and pirates and Indians and thrilling escapes. Did you know about the Indian uprising against Jamestown, in which a quarter of all the whites in America were slaughtered?
Read about it here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622
And read the book for free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2807
