A Knight in Shining Armor
A Knight in Shining Armor is Jude Deveraux's 1989 standalone time-travel romance, often cited as one of the most beloved novels in modern romance and a frequent reread for readers who came to the genre through it. The book opens with Dougless Montgomery, a sweet, doormat-prone American history teacher who has been carrying her stingy boyfriend Robert Whitley and his entitled teenage daughter through a disastrous English vacation. After a particularly humiliating scene in a small Tudor parish church, Robert and the daughter drive off to leave Dougless stranded on the marble effigy of a long-dead earl. She weeps onto the stone, and is answered by the man himself, Sir Nicholas Stafford, the actual sixteenth-century earl, who stands up out of his own tomb in full Elizabethan dress with no idea why he has been pulled four hundred years forward. Deveraux writes a romance with two halves, modern Dougless in Tudor England and Tudor Nicholas in modern England, and the ending pays at a price.
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Heartbroken in an English churchyard, a modern woman wishes for help and a sixteenth century knight appears beside her. He needs to clear his name in his own time. She needs to find her footing.
Yes. A Knight in Shining Armor is a time-travel romance by Jude Deveraux, originally published in 1989. It is widely considered one of the most beloved novels in the historical romance genre and has remained continuously in print.
A Knight in Shining Armor includes some sensual content but is restrained by current standards, around 2 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is more emotional and bittersweet than physically explicit.
A Knight in Shining Armor was written by Jude Deveraux, published in 2007 by Simon & Schuster.
A Knight in Shining Armor is 448 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, A Knight in Shining Armor takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
A Knight in Shining Armor is a standalone novel by Jude Deveraux, not part of a series.
A Knight in Shining Armor is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
