This book simply does not match up to the first few in the series. Jacky is a maiden throughout these books, but she's constantly put into scrapes that test her purity. Can she manage to make it through without getting into too much trouble? Sometimes she's forced into close scrapes, like having to entertain the gentlemen after dancing, but sometimes she enters into awkward relationships entirely of her own volition (making out for hours in a tent with a fellow spy), even though she truly believes she is in love with Jaimy from her ship's boy days. I liked the natural feeling of adventure in this story (although it seemed a little rushed at times) much more than in Mississippi Jack, but I didn't love Jacky's increasingly declining morals and how ridiculous it seems that she actually loves anyone at all.