This book was good in fact one of Jo Beverley's best written story of 'an arranged marriage'. Though I did not care for Lucian hitting Beth, I did understand were the author was going with the story. There could have been a better discription of Beth, because rarely do beautiful men marriage plain women and fall in love so desperately. Overall, it is a good book because Ms. Beverly put a lot of heart ache in her writing as if she was trying to involve the reader.