I honestly don't know what to think of this book. It sounded interesting at the time of reading and I was intrigued by the notion of Welles kidnapping Cassandra because he wanted her, but it seems like he essentially raped her. Sure he wasn't horrible of vicious about it but she didn't want him. 
 My biggest issue with the book was her seeming love for Edward, her fiance. It would have been easier, I think, to know that Cassandra didn't want to marry him than to believe she loved him and that Anthony was keeping her from him, no matter how it turns out in the end. I really think Coulter took it too far when Cassandra is abducted yet again and brutally raped by four men. 
 Part of me wants to like this book because I didn't actually mind the parts on the ship after Anthony has taken her to be his bride but so much after that was hard to swallow and read. 
 I didn't hate the book. In fact, I'm rather curious about their daughter who will be in the second book, enough so that I'm swapping for it over at Paperbackswap. The thing is that I truly hope their daughters life is a lot less brutal than Cassandra's has been so far. But then I also plan to swap this book as I probably will never read it again.