A Knight in Shining Armor
Jude Deveraux · 1989
A time-travel romance with real emotional depth. A modern woman crying in a churchyard, a 16th-century earl who appears to comfort her. Deveraux explores memory, identity, and the nature of love across centuries with genuine seriousness beneath the genre surface. The ending remains controversial and, for many readers, absolutely necessary.
The case against
Dougless spends the opening chapters weeping in a churchyard over a boyfriend who treats her like staff, and the doormat phase runs long past sympathy. Time-travel rules bend wherever the plot needs. And the famous ending swaps the man you spent four hundred pages with for a stand-in, a trade the book calls destiny and you may call a rigged deal.
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