For lovers of gothic tales such as Wuthering Heights or The Woman in White...or even the modern The Thirteenth Tale...this book is not for you. Very little happens over the course of its 300 pages. In fact, it could probably have easily been written in 100 pages - as far as plot elements go. I can actually do it in a few sentences.
[SPOILER WARNING]: A mail-order-bride arrives in a small Wisconsin town hoping to poison her soon-to-be-husband in the hopes of inheriting all of his wealth, because she is secretly sleeping with his estranged, handsome son. Eventually, however, she decides she loves her new husband and wants to have the child of his with which she has become pregnant. The estranged son then rapes her over this change of heart and is beaten by the father to the point of almost death, leading him to accidentally collapse into an icy Wisconsin lake and die. The end. [Side note: the father new all along she was at first lovers and in-cohoots with the son.]
Yawn.
The rest of novel is filled with language describing what pretends to be the serious personal-conflicts and inner-turmoils of the main characters. But, it isn't. It's just filled with pretentious, uninteresting and unrealistic drivel. There are a ton of good modern gothic romances out there - this is just not one of them. Spend your money elsewhere.
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