Here, again, Ms. Deveraux makes the villain an overweight woman who seems to gain weight in proportion to how mean she is to everyone. Gone are the early days of Ms. Deveraux's career when the antagonist might be a strikingly beautiful woman (Alice in The Velvet Promise, for example). 
 I don't know what happened after the earlier books in her career. Perhaps it was that fame and/or money exposed her to a shallower pool of friends, but she clearly, and maliciously, began body-shaming women, be they main characters, or one-scene background walk-ons (see my review of Sweet Liar). It seems no one in her books, but the pretty, perfect heroine, could ever weigh less than a draft horse. Even friends of the heroine, such as Janie in this book, are always big, large or plump. 
 I still quite enjoy Ms. Deveraux's books (at least those she wrote before giving up on historical romances completely), but find I'm not nearly as enamored of them as I once was.