It is such a fun little story and well performed. It is a little short— not enough for a full days drive in the car. But…I can’t recommend a book where a sexual predator gets rewarded in the end. It is hard to call Mr Mannerly anything else. There is no time period in which that type of behavior is ok. You can’t feel oh that is so sweet that they allow that older man to marry and 18 year old after he tried to use blackmail for sexual favors. Nope. Not romantic. Sorry. If he had come to change his mind and fallen for her and given up on revenge earlier.. it could have been made into a plausible story.