I don’t know who the author was, but I’ve absolutely read this storyline before. Woman is living her life and the man shows up and has the deed to her house and says it’s his now. And when I’ve read it in the past, BOY it left a bad taste in my mouth because the man was just so villainous? But the way that Ferdinand approaches the entire situation with Viola immediately had me won over. I was laughing and absolutely cried at one point in the book. We also got a little bit more of their life after marriage than we did in the last book, which I always appreciate.