She doesn’t shoot him, but she does lock him in the attic for his own good, so he KNOWS she loves him.

Note - this was published in 1994, there’s a lot of fun prose that had me giggling.

This heroine, Olympia, is both too dumb to live but really book smart and practical in other ways. The hero, JARED, is a viscount pretending to be a tutor so he can bask in the presence of his lady love. Fun side characters, baddies, a dog named Minotaur, unexpected reactions, I was highly entertained by all of it. Plus he’s a practical pirate, and she’s the after buried treasure.