I read this as part of Book Riot's Read Harder 2020 challenge - it was task #14, a romance starring a single parent. I don't read a huge amount of romances, so basically just picked the first one I could find that fit the task, and honestly I was mildly disappointed... albeit in a very unfair way. The Goodreads record I first saw of this book - I was trawling book lists here, trying to find something suitable that I could get from the library - had a truly terrible cover and an awful, hyperbolic description. The book sounded monumentally bad, and I was enthralled. Basically it had one of those Gothic romance covers, with a woman in flowing dress fleeing a castle, and the blurb made it sound like this governess, off to a Cornish mansion to fall in love with the parent of her charge, was headed to this place of haunted melodrama. I was expecting purple prose and high drama, I tell you, and what I got was a sensible heroine who barely did any running and shrieking. Granted, the climax, resolution, and epilogue all occur in about the last ten pages so it finishes very quickly, but it was still an enjoyable read... if quite old-fashioned in places. I think it's safe to say the book's been very heavily influenced by both Jane Eyre and Rebecca, and if it's not as literate or well-written as either of those, it is certainly more informal and goodnatured.