Ride the Wind Home

by Christina Kingston

Recently-widowed Diana Huntley has no intention of becoming the wife of another bad-tempered baron. So while her father schemes to produce another ill-conceived match, she plots an escape. But her one chance at dodging the confines of matrimony brings her face to face with the one man who makes marriage seem like a worthy state of affairs.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515135100
• ISBN13: 9780515135107
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Understanding History

Christina Kingston understands the true history of England and customs of the period her books represent. This story takes a heroine whose tribulations have been immense and shows how a smart woman can handle the worst villains, yet remain true to her own times and morals. It's not an easy accomplishment, for the heroine OR for the author, yet both triumph. This is not a contemporary woman struggling in a bygone era and behaving in a foolish manner that might cost her not only her position but also her very life. This is a brave heroine of the times, caught in the kind of dilemma women of today have sought so hard to do away with. To genuinely see how far we've come, "Ride the Wind Home."

A difficult problem ably handled

Kingston has handled a thorny problem well in "Ride the Wind Home," and I enjoyed watching her. She took a hero who was by nature gentle and kept that nature even while she put him in circumstances that would have been handled with greater ease by a more agressive personality.In addition, she took a woman trapped in the confines of her time, and gave her a determination to escape being a victim of those very confines--with sometime comic results, but ending in the saving of her beloved's life. I thought the way Kingston used the opposition of ultimate evil and the greatest good was well done, too.

enjoyable Regency romance

In 1814 her father a vicar married sixteen year old Diana to Huntley. Her new spouse is a nasty brute who abuses his young bride. When his friends trap her in an ugly situation, Michael David Lawrence, the Duke of Smythington and a member of the Lucky Seven, intercedes. Following that incident, Diana refused to accept crap from her ugly husband even when David vanishes.Four years later, Huntley has been dead for over a year, but her father wants Diana to marry Lord Runsfield. She never told him what an abomination her first marriage was, but refuses to wed anyone though she wishes her savior David was available. David has just returned to England after being held prisoner by a Barbary prince. He seeks internal peace and so he decides to wander until he recovers his equilibrium before taking over his dukedom. David sees Diana traveling by herself and decides he must keep safe the woman he fell in love with four years, not realizing she may be his healer.RIDE THE WIND HOME is an enjoyable Regency romance that stars two delightful lead protagonists. The story line is exciting although the country seems loaded with too many repulsive aristocratic males. Still the tale catches the audience attention from the moment the two stars meet and never releases the reader until the final climax.Harriet Klausner

Sweet modern classic

When the Duke of Smythington rescues Diana, a baron's very young bride and her puppy from the unwelcome attentions of ruffians, it begins a fledgling love that will haunt the two for years to come. She keeps track of him until he disappears.A year later, he returns to England after spending a that time enslaved. At first, he disguises himself as a young seaman, going only by one of his names, David. By this time, Diana is a widow, but is not ready to be a wife again, especially considering how distasteful she has found all the men her father would choose to be.She flees to London, and meets David there. Diana fails to recognize him as the man she never stopped loving, but despite that, there is an attraction to this stranger. David remembers and loves Diana, but wants her to love him for himself, not his title, so does not reveal who he is. The problem is, Diana may be in love with "David", but knows he is beneath her in station, and she loves another man, the Duke of Smythington.***** With a combination of sweetness and passion, this charming story weaves a place in the reader's heart. Love's power is tenderly portrayed in a modern classic that will leave you feeling warm.