Not much of a romance story at all. Everything is summarized, the entirety of the couple's relationship happens completely off the page. For a book titled 'The Hero' the aforementioned hero is missing 80% of the story. Like...WTF? He's pretty much treated like a B character and plays 3rd fiddle to everything else. Really weird. And why is everyone in this town either a widow/widower, single parent, or divorcee with a long lost child?? Totally unrealistic. The author also had the annoying habit of focusing on mundane things and tiring conversations between a handful of secondary characters that crowd the book and have no relevance to the main story whatsoever.