Grabbed on impulse from the library.

I hate to include romance novels in this list not because I don't consider them to be valid books, but because I can whip through them so quickly that it feels a bit like a cheat.

I liked this book. The heroine was not portrayed as an idiot, the hero wasn't so patronizing that I wanted to beat him with a stick and the love story was quirky enough to keep me engaged the entire way through. I'm glad I picked it up as it was a genre of romantic fiction that I don't think I'd read before (set in the US, but not contemporary and not featuring cowboys!).

I will look for this author again.