When I started reading this book I thought, “OK, I’m not getting through this one. Obvious chick book”. But I kept on and got hooked and finished in a couple of days. It’s the seemingly simple story of a professor at a small college who falls madly in love with a woman who he courts and marries. All desperately slowly as it is around 1899. She, though, has a somewhat dark and secret past and tells him up front that although she agrees to marry him she does not love him. He is determined that she will as time goes by as he is completely head over heels over her. As the story unravels we see various sides of the prof and most of them are not good. An interesting piece of writing from a woman getting into the head of a Victorian man.