This the second book in Mary Jo Putney's Dangerous Gifts series. Bran and Cade Tremayne met in a work house as children. They escaped to London and were taken in by Gwen and Rhys Tremayne. Their adoptive parents are "gifted" in that they have extrasensory abilities and in addition to their natural born children, they have collected "gifted" children from all over England. Bran's book was the first in this series. This book is about Cade and his adopted sister Tamsyn. As the Tremayne tribe has aged into adulthood and England has gone to war with France, their abilities have been put to use gathering intelligence for England's Home Office. The task that Cade and Tam are engaged in at the beginning of this book is to go to Paris, get the English Ambassador to France and get him home safely. Obviously things do not quite go as planned and Cade and Tamsyn have to use their powers to find their way out of a dangerous situation.
This was a decent book. Not Ms. Putney's best, but worth a read. Positive's: the Napoleonic Wars have been done to death in historical romance books. This book actually covers an event I did not know about, so the setting was a good one. The main characters are likeable and fairly well drawn. Negatives: the powers gained during this crisis were just too many. If there are more books to come in this series, how will the author ever keep them vulnerable or believable? The powers or gifts, were almost like a separate character they got so much run time. Each time they had a difficulty, a new power seems to have erupted. Heroes and heroines can be too strong. The villain. He was over the top in my opinion.
I would rate this book a B- or C+.
Many thanks to NetGalley and Zebra Books for a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I devoured this book! My favorite series before this was Mary Jo Putney's was her Guardian series, which had magic and romance to it. I am loving this new Dangerous Gifts series! While the Golden Lord can be read as a standalone novel, I would highly recommend reading Silver Lady first just to get the best reading treat out of this series! The Golden Lord had adventure, romance, magic, and danger in it. Loved it and couldn't put it down.