Why on earth would the heroine, Charlotte, suddenly find herself in love with this guy? When she comes to that discovery three quarters of the way into this book, I started to wonder if I had accidently grabbed the wrong book to finish reading. The guy is an idiot about women (juggling wife/mistress), child rearing (his daughter), business (his mills), character judgement (his foreman), human rights (child slave labor) etc. etc. etc. Charlotte, too, is quite poor spirited although that could be explained by realism --- but who wants a lot of that in a regency romance?