Blindspot

Blindspot, by Jane Kamensky, I read  after I had not one, but two co-workers tell me that they thought of me while they were reading it. 

The book itself was brilliant! I love historical fiction and this was one of the most well-written and well-researched novels I've come across. Set in pre-Revolutionary America, the story centers around a painter who has fled to the Americas from Scotland because of debt collectors who are on his tail. He sets up shop and immediately begins to search for an apprentice. When Francis Weston shows up on his doorstep, he has no idea what he's in store for. Weston turns out to be fallen Fanny Easton, a young woman who has been shunned from her family and therefore has to hide her identity and pretend to be a young man in order to take care of herself. One thing leads to another and the two begin to realize that there is something else going on between them rather than just an apprenticeship. A great, racy, well versed historical novel that tells the story from both points of view. Throw in a couple of murders and you've got yourself one heck of a great read!