This is a pretty typical romance novel. I did listen to this as an audiobook and will say that I did not care for the reader. They grew on me, but if it wasn’t for the topic of book banning in the very beginning, I might not have finished this book. In it, we have Artemis Jones who is a school teacher. She’s also a spinster and firmly on the shelf at 29. She doesn’t want to get married. She instead wants to start a college and educate young women. She’s also an author of gothic romance novels. She quite literally run into Dominic Winters, the Duke of Dartmore in the rain and they share a moment. The story progresses from there. Much of the story is predictable. Not 100% predictable but still predictable. And while overall, the story was exactly what one wants when they pick up a book like this there were some annoyances that give romance novels a bad name. First off, the euphemisms. I never again want to hear about a love truncheon. The author spends so much time on cliché language and euphemisms that this book is too long. This audiobook was 12 hours long and could have easily been nine or 10. A lot of that time was taken up with these clichés and euphemisms that didn’t need to be there. The author could also do with a little less description. One or two ways to describe things are fine. We don’t need a giant list. This is the first book in a series, and it feels like a first book. Overall, the book was decent and good, but the author needs a bit more help. I do want to read, whichever book is next in the series, but I am happy to be taking a break.