I enjoy Patricia Grasso, but this was a dismal failure. The heroine, or in my opinion the whipping post, of the story had no redeemable qualities at all. She let everyone and everything walks all over her, and then she thanked them for it. She is supposed to have dyslexia but it seemed like her real problem was a complete lack of both intelligence and maturity. Who in their right mind would let someone this ill prepared marry? I kept waiting for the scene where she stands up for herself or someone in her family does. It never came. The only thing this book was good for was a lesson in frustration and what not to read.