See, here's the thing. I would not usually pick up a book with this cover, and I would have missed out on account of that bias. More than anything, this is the story of recovery from sexual abuse and the legacy of victim blaming. I've read a lot of romances recently, largely because I've been a bit down and they usually guarantee a happy ending (no pun intended), and I'm glad that I have. I used to assume that they were all light-hearted and avoided dealing with the weightier issues of literary fiction, but that's just not the case, and it's probably the misogynistic, patronising stereotype of romance fiction that led me to believe that. Glad to have been proven wrong.