Wow, on her wedding day her husband slaps her and knocks her to the ground after vowing to punish her father for doing the same thing?!Then on her wedding night he RAPES her and 10 minutes later she forgives him and wants to have sex again?In what world is this okay especially for a romance novel.To the people that positively reviewed this book explain how there ever is a justification for rape or abuse, despite the time period, as some suggest, as this is ROMANCE novel not a factual historical account.I bought another of Jude's novels and actually enjoyed that one, but after reading her ridiculous account of rape, abuse and lies by her husband, this book is terrible.There are many romance books featuring awesome, strong sexy highlanders, Karen Marie Morning to name one, that NEVER resorts to violence against women but keeps the historical time period perfectly in place.